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Barefoot black coffee and a dripping beignet
sunlight and molasses across this belly
low over the river is a body in flight shaped like the sound of its wing
They set sail to mark the transit of Venus
The captain brought a biologist and the biologist brought a painter...
Excerpt from Banks' Florilegium
like seeing a Gutenberg bible, five at a time through security and into a safe
a solid foot of steel protecting 42 pieces of paper
by coming to enter through this heavy door we perpetuate why it's here
believing in history from a whitegloved docent like god and the gold standard...
Captain Cook's Endeavour Journals:
here
here
~
Peregrines dive at up to 200 mph to catch prey in midair
Some guy brought us one from a preserve
This beautiful, intent fellow
and told a story of his car mechanic
an Arabic man
who serviced the racing cars of a Saudi oil baron
and would go out on the sands with a leather on his arm
and simply whistle
~
Meanwhile in space
Asteroid Vonnegut 12324 continues to orbit
and the gold-plated summary of mankind drifts on...
Hi guys.
(run seti here)
~
And in the Amazon the lyrebirds continue to mimic the chainsaws
~
There are missing children and there are found children
I have learned enough about decomposition
ballistics
dental records
to last me a long while
Studied under a lady from the San Jose coroner's office
wondered if my mind would roam over four winters
across four fingerprints and the thumb of a large hand
you don't bruise like this after circulation stops
we smoked blunts and shot at tin cans back then
while reading aloud from Burroughs
the western lands
An excavation in Santa Clara county
under some strip mall
much like this but less publicized
Neolithic dig site, Mantova, Italy
two Ohlone
a giant quartz between their solar plexii
~
Stuck in traffic one afternoon while they widened lanes for Jesus
Some new church was starting to pull a lot of traffic off the main road
Some gilded flowchart leading to jackhammers and changes in concrete
Two left-turn signs chiseled into a stone tablet
held aloft by a traffic cop with a flowing beard
Reading about a logistics firm that advises for Kumbha Mela
which still sees about 46 tramplings each year
~
And this that I could look at all day
~
And the sordid life of Eadward Muybridge:
"here is the answer to the letter you sent my wife"
This incident marked the last time
an admitted murder in passion in California
was not to be punished except by reason of insanity.
~
I've come to know sunflowers
pulling apart brachts under scope
inking in spiral phyllotaxis on cold-press
researching hyperaccumulators
ninety-five percent of depleted uranium
absorbed at Los Alamos in 24 hours
by the mighty girasole
While right now in a Kansas field grows rice with human genes
and Zapatistas in Mexico are shelving kernels of the mother corn
~
Respect for the things that grow
things that thrive and adapt
things that succeed and persist
Streamlined in this
the most efficient
based on necessity
trial and error
describing motion and relationships between
and the implicit in static form...
All living things an incarnate Yes.
~
The Greeks defined hysteria as a wandering uterus
eventually lodged in a woman's brain
and after the experiment of one celibate year
I wonder if I somehow sublimated
this part of biology
shifted implications of my gender
into a focus on numbers that mean growth
in the spiral of a shell and
cells multiplying on schedule
and feeling some eerie near-parental pride in this
which is nothing more than a logarithm.
I'd rather stay human.
~
Minerals and proteins and
a faint echo in our metabolic process
of the shifting heat below
the machinations of a
ball of iron & fire packed in stone
The glimmer of a fuse lit in some hydrothermal vent
or natch, primordial puddle of clay
or someplace
we
don't
yet
know
and then
time-lapse evolution
a screaming comet in the dark
fiery streamers trailing through geological time
like a livingbreathingfightingfucking roman candle
exploding starbursts of
flagella and cilia
fins and limbs and opposable thumbs
stamens and petals and pistils
American Museum of Natural History. Ain't Kansas.
we got ourselves here
are obsessed with recreating ourselves
and obsessed with destroying ourselves
but the beginning was oh so beautiful.
~
Things move along, assuming their next phase
waitlisted on one internship,
greenlit for two
and holding out to hear on a fourth
a call came looking for someone to draw
for the Met's Egyptian wing
a dream job
eight months in New York
and four months at a site near Alexandria
it won't be for me but with this
I realize it's happening
much to learn but it's happening
everything I've given up to be here is starting to make sense
and the things I've dreamed of brush past more frequently.
*
sunlight and molasses across this belly
low over the river is a body in flight shaped like the sound of its wing
They set sail to mark the transit of Venus
The captain brought a biologist and the biologist brought a painter...
Excerpt from Banks' Florilegium
like seeing a Gutenberg bible, five at a time through security and into a safe
a solid foot of steel protecting 42 pieces of paper
by coming to enter through this heavy door we perpetuate why it's here
believing in history from a whitegloved docent like god and the gold standard...
Captain Cook's Endeavour Journals:
here
here
~
Peregrines dive at up to 200 mph to catch prey in midair
Some guy brought us one from a preserve
This beautiful, intent fellow
and told a story of his car mechanic
an Arabic man
who serviced the racing cars of a Saudi oil baron
and would go out on the sands with a leather on his arm
and simply whistle
~
Meanwhile in space
Asteroid Vonnegut 12324 continues to orbit
and the gold-plated summary of mankind drifts on...
Hi guys.
(run seti here)
~
And in the Amazon the lyrebirds continue to mimic the chainsaws
~
There are missing children and there are found children
I have learned enough about decomposition
ballistics
dental records
to last me a long while
Studied under a lady from the San Jose coroner's office
wondered if my mind would roam over four winters
across four fingerprints and the thumb of a large hand
you don't bruise like this after circulation stops
we smoked blunts and shot at tin cans back then
while reading aloud from Burroughs
the western lands
An excavation in Santa Clara county
under some strip mall
much like this but less publicized
Neolithic dig site, Mantova, Italy
two Ohlone
a giant quartz between their solar plexii
~
Stuck in traffic one afternoon while they widened lanes for Jesus
Some new church was starting to pull a lot of traffic off the main road
Some gilded flowchart leading to jackhammers and changes in concrete
Two left-turn signs chiseled into a stone tablet
held aloft by a traffic cop with a flowing beard
Reading about a logistics firm that advises for Kumbha Mela
which still sees about 46 tramplings each year
~
And this that I could look at all day
~
And the sordid life of Eadward Muybridge:
"here is the answer to the letter you sent my wife"
This incident marked the last time
an admitted murder in passion in California
was not to be punished except by reason of insanity.
~
I've come to know sunflowers
pulling apart brachts under scope
inking in spiral phyllotaxis on cold-press
researching hyperaccumulators
ninety-five percent of depleted uranium
absorbed at Los Alamos in 24 hours
by the mighty girasole
While right now in a Kansas field grows rice with human genes
and Zapatistas in Mexico are shelving kernels of the mother corn
~
Respect for the things that grow
things that thrive and adapt
things that succeed and persist
Streamlined in this
the most efficient
based on necessity
trial and error
describing motion and relationships between
and the implicit in static form...
All living things an incarnate Yes.
~
The Greeks defined hysteria as a wandering uterus
eventually lodged in a woman's brain
and after the experiment of one celibate year
I wonder if I somehow sublimated
this part of biology
shifted implications of my gender
into a focus on numbers that mean growth
in the spiral of a shell and
cells multiplying on schedule
and feeling some eerie near-parental pride in this
which is nothing more than a logarithm.
I'd rather stay human.
~
Minerals and proteins and
a faint echo in our metabolic process
of the shifting heat below
the machinations of a
ball of iron & fire packed in stone
The glimmer of a fuse lit in some hydrothermal vent
or natch, primordial puddle of clay
or someplace
we
don't
yet
know
and then
time-lapse evolution
a screaming comet in the dark
fiery streamers trailing through geological time
like a livingbreathingfightingfucking roman candle
exploding starbursts of
flagella and cilia
fins and limbs and opposable thumbs
stamens and petals and pistils
American Museum of Natural History. Ain't Kansas.
we got ourselves here
are obsessed with recreating ourselves
and obsessed with destroying ourselves
but the beginning was oh so beautiful.
~
Things move along, assuming their next phase
waitlisted on one internship,
greenlit for two
and holding out to hear on a fourth
a call came looking for someone to draw
for the Met's Egyptian wing
a dream job
eight months in New York
and four months at a site near Alexandria
it won't be for me but with this
I realize it's happening
much to learn but it's happening
everything I've given up to be here is starting to make sense
and the things I've dreamed of brush past more frequently.
*