7.29.10

Parenting, not to be confused with curatorship –– it teaches asymmetrically.

Like Bell's palsy, the face one places before the child loses its nerve at random, fails to manage, and –– self-limiting –– reacts to seizure with blind attention.

7.28.10

In a world of black and white dogs, dirty is indeed the funniest word.

And the kiddos know it!

Domains & Intents: 5

• Difficult subjects.
• Plain language.
• Promises.

Ashbery's Birthday

Because life is short
We must remember to keep asking it the same question

   ––"The New Spirit", Three Poems

...

"Momentarily."

That word breaks my heart.

Peeping Mot p.2

A lie is a virgin pipe to an expensive future.

Escape Artists

––That poetry is vulnerable to invention
––That invention can proxy for egress
––That poetry can prepare an exception

They think that's what it is:
   the black swan tool.

8

That poetry does not care for us in a timely way.

7

That poetry is open to faithless arguments.

Domains & Intents: 4

• The limitations, or collective punishments, of invention.
• The foundlings of enterprise.
• Henry Vaughan's invocation of a "dirty intelligence."
• The idea of the vernacular; a vernacular of ideas.
• What I will choose to love, and what I will choose to know.