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MTC CRONIN |
8 kilos of gold thread ~~ a dream hole ~~ reaffirmation of
a promise ~~ something
live under your arm ~~ exile &
revenge ~~ witness of a grand opening ~~ never a
fait accompli ~~ sitting for hours with head
buried in hands or cloak ~~ red line on a
map ~~ surviving with 24 of your 300
ships ~~ leaving in peace ~~ last great assault
on the self ~~ sun, cut in half by a
cloud ~~ tiny little archers (with even tinier arrows)
~~ identifying by marks on the body ~~ shrine where the
waves break on the sea ~~
seaside mountains discontent ~~ fantastic candour ~~ kissing the palm ~~ stranded
~~ agony you forgot ~~ tempered clay ~~ aroused by the
real ~~ each person each
person ~~ adultery beyond law, science
and society ~~ no longer blood but what can
be nothing else ~~ void like your
opening arms ~~ passional species ~~ doubt
absolute ~~ apple marriage and so it goes
~~ a world made of poems ~~
satisfaction and dirty feet ~~ just what you did
below ~~ source of the gift ~~ waking
to the truth of the dream ~~ autonomy
and creation without falling ~~ slices of
perception ~~ ragged from their part in the
story
The Two Deserted
Ladders
The two deserted ladders lay on their backs in the yard.
Or were they on their stomachs?
No matter!
No one came to scratch or tickle them.
All were climbed or fallen.
Down.
The two ladders lolled on their backs in the grass.
Intermundant. Conticent.
Until one said to the other We are
feetless and handless.
And the other replied I refuse to be interpreted in terms
of purpose.
Council sits on Thursday and I shall petition it.
As wood from the trees. As metal from the
mine.
As a kind of nymph, would you mind if I second you? asked
the other.
The two ladders nestled in the silence of the question.
Then the first ladder answered Vacated we shall be
self-professed.
Accompany me to Council.
But no one came to hoist or mount
them.
Ubietous. Parterred.
A cat nested between two rungs.
A ship sailed along the stringers.
A world, like a small barrel, berthed at one end.
Between the ladders a unified sky tipped its victory hat.
There was no more longing to speak of.
Thursday came and went.
Wall of the Essential Fact
(What Happens When You Get Your Hands on It)
That you. That you.
Bumping up against cannot thinking of.
When did sun?
Into the childs bread exist?
That you never saw. Never saw.
Behind them again.
Whats gone is told!
Whats decided is unopened!
That you bore this out.
Finding there more than.
Wall-fact?
Essential only for walls?
That you just the excuse.
The excuse which is fearless.
Recommendation of without?
And some?
That you. That you.
Killing the snap out of it.
When did sun against?
It streaming stop?
If among. If among.
The walls with their only two
conflicts.
Might someone ask?
What does the circle do?
That you heydayed
then. That you.
Casting your new tribe.
And did the wall wall?
Did
the wall fall like a star?
Love & Choice
What happens when one person chooses another.
Inbring: to bring in: to bring into
court. To court.
Courtship. Daily to declare love.
Quotidian. Fever. Recurring daily.
Addition of one person to another. Overlapping and underlapping.
Repeated
subtraction until only love is left. Not this
or that. Just love. The minimum number of
persons necessary for love. Quite. Completely, wholly, entirely.
Enough fully to justify
the use of the word, love.
Exactly, indeed, yes. And despite what youve decided.
Against how your mind is made up. Beyond what you
have resolved. Without
preference. Without
alternatives. There is no choice. The context is always what is.
What is chosen is the perception of this. What happens when
one wishes. Love is the
cause. That which
produces an effect. That by or through which anything
happens.
Brings in. Within which no choice is possible
or necessary. You did not choose but
were brought about. Taken up by all
means by one more interchangeable with each
other. Taken all
together. Different. Distinct.
But one more of the same kind. Also
loving. Also loved.
What you chose was not the person but love itself. By
ones own
action something that represents a
judicious belief in the world. A form of inflexion in
which another is the self. In which one
bends with grace to tend. Where all is brought
in. Is courted.
Among. By the way of.
Expressing the relation to everything that
surrounds. Love being because of and the
cause of. One person holding another. One
being the others possibility. Repeated
addition until love is created. Not this or that.
This and that. Enough.
Just.
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