This made me recall the last couple of pages in Ondaatje's "Anil's Ghost", when the painter draws the eyes on the face of the huge statue of Buddha, and the eyes begin to see. What do they see? What does such an inhuman gaze see? Life, and death, mixed around in time? Individual lives? Individual deaths? Do the days appear separate? Do a god's eyes see suffering? Or is there only peace?...
i like the repetition and the bluntness of every line.
eyes halo window between
teeth hair screen static
these two parts jumped out at me, even without the rest there's something so much more corporeal about the second bit than the first, which seems so much more abstract, free, unbending in it's freedom.
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I'm left with a feeling of unease.
What is "guiding by/to Bog"?
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What do they see? What does such an inhuman gaze see? Life, and death, mixed around in time?
Individual lives? Individual deaths?
Do the days appear separate?
Do a god's eyes see suffering?
Or is there only peace?...
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eyes
halo
window
between
teeth
hair
screen
static
these two parts jumped out at me, even without the rest there's something so much more corporeal about the second bit than the first, which seems so much more abstract, free, unbending in it's freedom.
Really nice.
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