the skin is the inside edge of
the radiance
the burning
the flaming
flashing forth , raging
shapeless formless
enormous amorphous
capable of being all
shapes and sizes , small
and large , short and tall
Monday, November 4, 2013
Thursday, October 31, 2013
The transformation
The transformation I then felt enact
-ing has come full circle
more than once
spiralwise once more
again and again doubling
back to pass me by
once again .
Who am I
to say when it
really began to begin
or if the end will
ever really end ?
-ing has come full circle
more than once
spiralwise once more
again and again doubling
back to pass me by
once again .
Who am I
to say when it
really began to begin
or if the end will
ever really end ?
Monday, August 12, 2013
"the work of / righting what I"
the work of
righting what I
write is
discovering new combinations
new couplings
new juxtapositions
new ways of
folding-in & turning-inside-out
world
and self
finding creative lines of flight
in
out
those that actually lead some
-where
those from which one can leave
to which one can return
.
Nails hair anything a person has
worn touched been long in close contact with
preserve an intimate relation
even when separated from him or her
Distant things are linked
by means of
a sympathetic
symmetry
and sometimes
a single fossil is enough
to reassemble the whole damn
organism
. . .
the real crux
of the matter
in hand is
the combinations
the couplings
the juxtapositions
where the over
-lap overlap
-s
.
righting what I
write is
discovering new combinations
new couplings
new juxtapositions
new ways of
folding-in & turning-inside-out
world
and self
finding creative lines of flight
in
out
those that actually lead some
-where
those from which one can leave
to which one can return
.
Nails hair anything a person has
worn touched been long in close contact with
preserve an intimate relation
even when separated from him or her
Distant things are linked
by means of
a sympathetic
symmetry
and sometimes
a single fossil is enough
to reassemble the whole damn
organism
. . .
the real crux
of the matter
in hand is
the combinations
the couplings
the juxtapositions
where the over
-lap overlap
-s
.
Friday, August 9, 2013
Thursday, August 8, 2013
sitra ahra
the surface always appeared double
sided at all times
in all places
the other side always appeared
inaccessible
on this side
but now I realize the same
inside is drawn outside
the lines on both sides
the two paths are one
flowing boundary
interior and exterior
the same inside and out
.
. . .
“Hear one side and you will be
in the dark. Hear both
and all will be clear.”
— Lord Chesterfield
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
the real Mysteries are / ever the same
(1)
the real mysteries are
ever the same
a man and woman
each
unique
evocations of milky way
whorls of wonder
thumbprints of thinking
in which universe be
-holds its own
radiant
grandeur
.
. . .
“Nothing exists in human nature that is not spiritual;
for even the substance of the body is spiritual. . . .
Divinity is our genus and species."
-- Julian of Eclanum (5th century AD)
.
. . .
the real mysteries are
ever the same
a man and woman
each
unique
evocations of milky way
whorls of wonder
thumbprints of thinking
in which universe be
-holds its own
radiant
grandeur
.
. . .
“Nothing exists in human nature that is not spiritual;
for even the substance of the body is spiritual. . . .
Divinity is our genus and species."
-- Julian of Eclanum (5th century AD)
.
. . .
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Blade of glass
I admit what
I emit
what is
inimical to me
shapes the crystal
my grain of sand
has be
-come
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Wisdom
Wisdom
was not nor was never
written or read in the havens
but rather in the wise domes of
the familial few who put their heads
to gather each glimmering shimmering
thing their fingers tangled
was not nor was never
written or read in the havens
but rather in the wise domes of
the familial few who put their heads
to gather each glimmering shimmering
thing their fingers tangled
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Paul Blackburn -- "Statement"
" . . .
Personally, I affirm two things:
the possibility of warmth & contact
in the human relationship :
as juxtaposed against the materialistic pig of a technological world,
where relationships are only ‘useful’ i.e., exploited, either
psychologically or materially.
20, the possibility of s o n g
within that world: which is like saying ‘yes’ to sunlight.
On the matter of song: I believe there must be a return toward the
musical structure of poetry, just as there must be, for certain people at
least, a return to warmth within a relationship.
However impractical that may seem in a society controlled in some of its
most intimate aspects by monstrous, which are totally irresponsible,
corporations, organized for the greatest gain of the most profit: and whose
natural growth, like that of any organism, is toward monopoly,
self-support, self-completion, self-
perpetuation,
and eventually self-competition and self-destruction.
In a world that is so quickly losing its individuals, it can only be the
individuals who persist, who can work any change of direction, i.e. control
the machines, or destroy them.
the possibility of warmth & contact
in the human relationship :
as juxtaposed against the materialistic pig of a technological world,
where relationships are only ‘useful’ i.e., exploited, either
psychologically or materially.
20, the possibility of s o n g
within that world: which is like saying ‘yes’ to sunlight.
On the matter of song: I believe there must be a return toward the
musical structure of poetry, just as there must be, for certain people at
least, a return to warmth within a relationship.
However impractical that may seem in a society controlled in some of its
most intimate aspects by monstrous, which are totally irresponsible,
corporations, organized for the greatest gain of the most profit: and whose
natural growth, like that of any organism, is toward monopoly,
self-support, self-completion, self-
perpetuation,
and eventually self-competition and self-destruction.
In a world that is so quickly losing its individuals, it can only be the
individuals who persist, who can work any change of direction, i.e. control
the machines, or destroy them.
. . . )
Hugh Seidman -- interview (2006)
" . . . I suppose that if you subscribe to the “masterpiece theatre” view of art, then it is a sin against nature to publish the “inferior” or “unfinished” work of a dead poet (or of anyone). On the other hand if you believe that art is an ongoing and ever-evolving process of engagement with the universe at large, then certainly there will be highs and lows in that process, and one polarity is not necessarily to be favored over the other. Or, perhaps one falls somewhere in between these two views? And didn’t Valery say that a poem is never done but only abandoned? . . . "
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Robert Duncan -- "Occult"
"Compose a poetry with the meaning entirely
OCCULT -- that is
With the meaning contained not as a jewel contained in a box, but
As the inside of a box
Is contained in the box ."
from The HD Book
OCCULT -- that is
With the meaning contained not as a jewel contained in a box, but
As the inside of a box
Is contained in the box ."
from The HD Book
"By here & now I"
By here & now I
here by
here swear aloud
Where ever , when
if ever I am allowed
what the gods will allow me
I vow myself to allow
this space to speak
these words I sing
My verses shall be finely chiseld
my verbs struck from stone
and my nouns stripped from bone
and the meat of my meaning
laid bare
In poetry
in prose
The heat
of each word of each verse
tossing and turning
spinning me back and forth
Verb versus verb
like thorns in side me
weaving a rose
here by
here swear aloud
Where ever , when
if ever I am allowed
what the gods will allow me
I vow myself to allow
this space to speak
these words I sing
My verses shall be finely chiseld
my verbs struck from stone
and my nouns stripped from bone
and the meat of my meaning
laid bare
In poetry
in prose
The heat
of each word of each verse
tossing and turning
spinning me back and forth
Verb versus verb
like thorns in side me
weaving a rose
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Rene Daumal - "One cannot stay on the summit forever"
One cannot stay on the summit forever -
One has to come down again.
So why bother in the first place? Just this.
What is above knows what is below -
But what is below does not know what is above
One climb, one sees-
One descends and sees no longer
But one has seen!
There is an art of conducting one's self in
The lower regions by the memory of
What one saw higher up.
When one can no longer see,
One does at least still know.
--Rene Daumal
One has to come down again.
So why bother in the first place? Just this.
What is above knows what is below -
But what is below does not know what is above
One climb, one sees-
One descends and sees no longer
But one has seen!
There is an art of conducting one's self in
The lower regions by the memory of
What one saw higher up.
When one can no longer see,
One does at least still know.
--Rene Daumal
Infinite loop
In finite loop
-ing lemniscate
twisted mobius-strip
having no beginning no end
torus memory shell
We listen for Ocean in
All weaves together in
One fabric
the pattern
the design does not begin
in any certain place but where
the eye sees itself see in
-ing lemniscate
twisted mobius-strip
having no beginning no end
torus memory shell
We listen for Ocean in
All weaves together in
One fabric
the pattern
the design does not begin
in any certain place but where
the eye sees itself see in
Thro a glass darkly
Urthe is a reflection of Haven
and as in all reflections
things are reversed
.
Bliss appears as suffering
to enlightend consciousness
Pain feels like ecstasy
.
The saint does not liberate himself from pain
He liberates pain itself
.
The saint does not liberate himself from the world
He liberates himself from illusions about the world
.
Thus he is able to experience the world
more completely more fully
more integrally
than most other men
.
We must suffer not only earth
and hateful mothers fathers
but the hole damned
cycle of samsara
.
All time and all space
Crowns of light and darkness
.
All glistening things
jewels gems stones metals
are glittering reflections
and as in all reflections
things are reversed
.
Bliss appears as suffering
to enlightend consciousness
Pain feels like ecstasy
.
The saint does not liberate himself from pain
He liberates pain itself
.
The saint does not liberate himself from the world
He liberates himself from illusions about the world
.
Thus he is able to experience the world
more completely more fully
more integrally
than most other men
.
We must suffer not only earth
and hateful mothers fathers
but the hole damned
cycle of samsara
.
All time and all space
Crowns of light and darkness
.
All glistening things
jewels gems stones metals
are glittering reflections
Post Script
Poet
Son of the father
seer of visions
visionary child
.
Guided by angles of Light
sees the light
out of the center of every thing
shining
.
each grain of sand is alive
in his eye, luminous
.
And he suffers for this
. . .
He is called to suffering
that he may learn joy
.
"We are put here on Urth a little space
To learn to bear the beams
Of love "
-Wm Blake
Son of the father
seer of visions
visionary child
.
Guided by angles of Light
sees the light
out of the center of every thing
shining
.
each grain of sand is alive
in his eye, luminous
.
And he suffers for this
. . .
He is called to suffering
that he may learn joy
.
"We are put here on Urth a little space
To learn to bear the beams
Of love "
-Wm Blake
Genesis 1.1
בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ
Head-housed bore the Forces
all circumstances
the Waters-There circum-
-standing the Light-Tree
ב ר
all bodied-beings distinguishing between inside-self & outside-other
housed in whole dome-head universe's Reach
ש א
is Origin
shining (dark & bright) w/ One Light
בראש
BYT RYSh ALP ShYN
House Head Origin Glow
Bait Raysh Aleph Sheen
Body-Reach-All-of-Shine
(. . . )
*(Isa Upanisad 1: "Whatever is in the universe, in all its changing forms, dwells the Unchanging" )
*(John 14.2: "In the Ancestor's House (Body) there are many mansions" )
&c.
when Light of No-Thing be
came Yin to Yang
the Bang to bring
to birth the berth
of all things
to emanate the images
to create the creatures
names , appellations
signs , times
echoes , reverberations of
the Primal Fiat
that bangd in the
beginning was
*(Talmud Eser Sephirot 1.1 )
Head-housed bore the Forces
all circumstances
the Waters-There circum-
-standing the Light-Tree
ב ר
all bodied-beings distinguishing between inside-self & outside-other
housed in whole dome-head universe's Reach
ש א
is Origin
shining (dark & bright) w/ One Light
בראש
BYT RYSh ALP ShYN
House Head Origin Glow
Bait Raysh Aleph Sheen
Body-Reach-All-of-Shine
(. . . )
*(Isa Upanisad 1: "Whatever is in the universe, in all its changing forms, dwells the Unchanging" )
*(John 14.2: "In the Ancestor's House (Body) there are many mansions" )
&c.
when Light of No-Thing be
came Yin to Yang
the Bang to bring
to birth the berth
of all things
to emanate the images
to create the creatures
names , appellations
signs , times
echoes , reverberations of
the Primal Fiat
that bangd in the
beginning was
*(Talmud Eser Sephirot 1.1 )
Saturday, February 23, 2013
"Destroying what we have imagined"
destroying what we have imagined
brings us closer to what
we cannot imagine
an absence
we cannot survive
at least it is
diminishd a little
because we are still alive
( is not ended
what has come to pass )
&c.
brings us closer to what
we cannot imagine
an absence
we cannot survive
at least it is
diminishd a little
because we are still alive
( is not ended
what has come to pass )
&c.
"What are poets for?"
(in conversation with M Heidegger)
1
The gods
who were once there
return
only at the right time
when there has been a turn
among men
at the right time
in the right way
Timing is every thing
&c.
2
The business of poetry
is the salvation of the soul
transformation of
mud to pure gold
1
The gods
who were once there
return
only at the right time
when there has been a turn
among men
at the right time
in the right way
Timing is every thing
&c.
2
The business of poetry
is the salvation of the soul
transformation of
mud to pure gold
from "Hermetic Definitions"
MaTTeR >
< mothering matrix
matter is
what matters
in forms
the substance
shape that
shapes us
GRaViTy >
< vortical valence
or helical adhesion
a knot tied in each whirling
atom-node of space
yoking each adam tied back
hooking loop in place
in the spiral weaving flux
fabric of time's pace
EGO
one cannot get
rid of the ego
by removing me
from I
SPiRiT
Frequency to which we attune
re-tunes us
< mothering matrix
matter is
what matters
in forms
the substance
shape that
shapes us
GRaViTy >
< vortical valence
or helical adhesion
a knot tied in each whirling
atom-node of space
yoking each adam tied back
hooking loop in place
in the spiral weaving flux
fabric of time's pace
EGO
one cannot get
rid of the ego
by removing me
from I
SPiRiT
Frequency to which we attune
re-tunes us
Metatron
Consciousness extends beyond the physical body
transmitted by biophotons
partaking of a "Mind-Field"
of communal consciousness surrounding the planet and
extending into spacetime
thro the magnetosphere
resonating in patterns contourd
by ripples of past, present and future
this "Mind-Field" is the collective
experience of the whole human race
well-spring from which our waters are sprung
emptiness in to which we empty
transmitted by biophotons
partaking of a "Mind-Field"
of communal consciousness surrounding the planet and
extending into spacetime
thro the magnetosphere
resonating in patterns contourd
by ripples of past, present and future
this "Mind-Field" is the collective
experience of the whole human race
well-spring from which our waters are sprung
emptiness in to which we empty
Isaiah 41.7
smithing pummelling
molten-fusing
smoothing hammering
striking anvil saying
the soldering
"It Is Good"
nailing up He Who Stands
not wobbling
molten-fusing
smoothing hammering
striking anvil saying
the soldering
"It Is Good"
nailing up He Who Stands
not wobbling
Initiation
Initiation
bite of healing elixir, contagious
L I G H T
s p r e a d i n g
viruslike to root out the virus
at the root of my Darkness
bite of healing elixir, contagious
L I G H T
s p r e a d i n g
viruslike to root out the virus
at the root of my Darkness
"Anew Consensus is when"
Anew Consensus is when
a new cultyr begins
when a truly new universal imagining
catches FIRE from torch to torch
& gives new shapes to new feelings
A new world of common
experience & shared meaning
A confluence of humanities
communicated
interpreted
translated
in to one
center-all common fold
Inhabiting the whole earth
reaching for the stars
a new cultyr begins
when a truly new universal imagining
catches FIRE from torch to torch
& gives new shapes to new feelings
A new world of common
experience & shared meaning
A confluence of humanities
communicated
interpreted
translated
in to one
center-all common fold
Inhabiting the whole earth
reaching for the stars
Dying feels like a good cry
Then all the hurt faded away
disappeared
as if it had never been
My blood slowed
Through all the noise of shouting
I could hear
birds singing in palace gardens
A breeze tossed
the lilies
laughing
disappeared
as if it had never been
My blood slowed
Through all the noise of shouting
I could hear
birds singing in palace gardens
A breeze tossed
the lilies
laughing
Down I lay
my life,
that I may
take it up
again someday
I sleep with
open eyes
I dream with
my hands
the dream of
a river seeking its course
backwards
beyond the source
beyond
infancy
beyond the
beginning
climbing
thro millions of roots
reborn,
breaking forth
in many
colored leaves
Klipa & Nogah
each letter
each word
each utterance
is TWOFOLD
both
Shell & Spark
the Shell both hides and leads in
to the Spark
conceals & reveals
Hard-end shells
harbor
hid-in sparks
One cannot reach the pit
of the fruit except thro
the shell
uncover the cover
reveal the revelation
each word
each utterance
is TWOFOLD
both
Shell & Spark
the Shell both hides and leads in
to the Spark
conceals & reveals
Hard-end shells
harbor
hid-in sparks
One cannot reach the pit
of the fruit except thro
the shell
uncover the cover
reveal the revelation
from "Kol haTor workbook"
“The thrice-woven cord
of Signs, Designated-Times, and Appointed-Agents
appear simultaneously
"The Agents react to the Signs
& thus can help accelerate
arrival of the Designated-Times
*The Hebrew term for "Signs" – Yi’udim (singl= yi’ud) -- is usually translated as “missions, appointments, designations or assignments." In context of "Kol haTor," the implication of Yi’udim is that of “Signs,” actions or events (people, places, things) which alert the Agents to translate those Signs into "as-Sign-meant(s). " It is not specified whether Yi’udim are manifested from external Forces or from the Agents themselves. Ambiguity appears intentional because tt does not matter how and why the Signs of the new respective “as-Sign-meant(s)” are revealed. Regardless, Agents must know how to interpret them and respond to them in order to stimulate the Designated Times. Yi’udim are the “Signs of the Times” (Zeitgeist) which the Agents recognize as their “as-Sign-meant(s)” to help trigger & accelerate the “Time of the Sign.”
*Jack Spicer: "The Poet is an Agent (like a mother is) ."
Letter from Horselover Fat, received in a dream
"For you there is no way out
except to go forward .
Don’t turn back the way you came .
No use rediscovering
the place where you began .
No . Hurry on now
hurry on to where you’ve always been heading
your whole life long ."
except to go forward .
Don’t turn back the way you came .
No use rediscovering
the place where you began .
No . Hurry on now
hurry on to where you’ve always been heading
your whole life long ."
Friday, February 22, 2013
Claude Gauvreau - "Desire"
“The only path to follow is the one shown us by DESIRE.
The fact that any child
can make an authentic masterpiece
makes me think that desire can be born
in anybody. But as long as this desire is not permitted,
as long as it does not frantically claw at the surface,
in total honesty and with total risk,
nothing can point to a new road.”
--Claude Gauvreau
The fact that any child
can make an authentic masterpiece
makes me think that desire can be born
in anybody. But as long as this desire is not permitted,
as long as it does not frantically claw at the surface,
in total honesty and with total risk,
nothing can point to a new road.”
--Claude Gauvreau
from "Infinite in All Directions"
Matter is not matter
it slowly fades as it passes
from cell to molecule to atom
to the electron, where
matter ceases to be
matter, and manifests it self as
mind
spirit
force
and not blindly , no , but as
an all-seeing eye sees itself
burningly alive in every beam
of light curving
straight on forever
infinite in all directions of sight
it slowly fades as it passes
from cell to molecule to atom
to the electron, where
matter ceases to be
matter, and manifests it self as
mind
spirit
force
and not blindly , no , but as
an all-seeing eye sees itself
burningly alive in every beam
of light curving
straight on forever
infinite in all directions of sight
Poesis
(epigraph atop an unfinished "Mantic Manifesto")
I do the Work
I make it
work for me
& the Work
in turn makes
Me who I am
1.
GATHER
together widely scattered material
and draw it in
to the central axis
access of the current
flow
Gatherd sparks
a gathering of shards
fractal fragments re
-membering
a Book of Memory
with spiral-coiled spine
twisting blend of broken prose
and fractured poetry
Pieces of the jigsaw puzzle are
every where what is
the bigger picture
I do the Work
I make it
work for me
& the Work
in turn makes
Me who I am
1.
GATHER
together widely scattered material
and draw it in
to the central axis
access of the current
flow
Gatherd sparks
a gathering of shards
fractal fragments re
-membering
a Book of Memory
with spiral-coiled spine
twisting blend of broken prose
and fractured poetry
Pieces of the jigsaw puzzle are
every where what is
the bigger picture
"Fear not / little children"
(from "Letterbombs")
Fear not
little children
tho the orthodox Sunday School
batten the windows of the soul against the senses' sunlight
the comic book & the Saturday morning cartoon
are busily at work in the dark , generating Xrays
and laserbeams of merciful liberating metalogic
that shine thro the sheen that clouds even
our densest draperies
of superstition
Fear not
little children
tho the orthodox Sunday School
batten the windows of the soul against the senses' sunlight
the comic book & the Saturday morning cartoon
are busily at work in the dark , generating Xrays
and laserbeams of merciful liberating metalogic
that shine thro the sheen that clouds even
our densest draperies
of superstition
from "MythoLogos"
1)
The discoveries we make
are given shape by
our looking .
Things we see
are given meaning by
our seeing .
To accept our physical state of being
as ancient and formative
and yet fail to grant our psychic state of being
the same standing
splits our world in two .
2)
Imaginations
"Thot-Forms"
Phylogenetic Memories
Primordial Scenes
Inherited from the Deep Past
suggest that Man is much more than
simply another animal .
Only when we realize the full activity
of the Mind -- how Thot
cerebrates endlessly
just below the limit horizon of experience
absorbed always in infinity
Will we understand the rightful
poem-rich potential
of fully upright Man.
3)
All voyages are imaginary
even those we actually take .
Symbols cannot be borrowd or built on
they must be seized
each time --
their real value, use
is how much light they contain
how much we can see
in them
our self .
The discoveries we make
are given shape by
our looking .
Things we see
are given meaning by
our seeing .
To accept our physical state of being
as ancient and formative
and yet fail to grant our psychic state of being
the same standing
splits our world in two .
2)
Imaginations
"Thot-Forms"
Phylogenetic Memories
Primordial Scenes
Inherited from the Deep Past
suggest that Man is much more than
simply another animal .
Only when we realize the full activity
of the Mind -- how Thot
cerebrates endlessly
just below the limit horizon of experience
absorbed always in infinity
Will we understand the rightful
poem-rich potential
of fully upright Man.
3)
All voyages are imaginary
even those we actually take .
Symbols cannot be borrowd or built on
they must be seized
each time --
their real value, use
is how much light they contain
how much we can see
in them
our self .
"Reality must be revealed"
The Real
has just these boundaries
That we imagine
–R.D.
Reality must be revealed . Again & again , countless times over .
Like shouting yr name to a mirror . Reflections of the Word
bounce back at you in the face .
Or over the Waters where , over the roar of the Waters
there’s No One there
there’s no
Echo
Until you speak
Until Spirit opens up yr jaws & starts jabbering
until you hear the Word coming strangely
up out of yr own mouth
smokelike
streaming
speaking tongue-tying riddles with yr own tongue
Only then will you believe .
has just these boundaries
That we imagine
–R.D.
Reality must be revealed . Again & again , countless times over .
Like shouting yr name to a mirror . Reflections of the Word
bounce back at you in the face .
Or over the Waters where , over the roar of the Waters
there’s No One there
there’s no
Echo
Until you speak
Until Spirit opens up yr jaws & starts jabbering
until you hear the Word coming strangely
up out of yr own mouth
smokelike
streaming
speaking tongue-tying riddles with yr own tongue
Only then will you believe .
"Remember"
(from "Letterbombs")
An overwhelming majority live in ignorance
of the visible & invisible wonders that surround us
And therefore they are easily controlled
by desire , superstition and fear
A black iron billyclub in this world
a red hot poker in the next
Enlightenment is what we need , here now
not religion
An overwhelming majority live in ignorance
of the visible & invisible wonders that surround us
And therefore they are easily controlled
by desire , superstition and fear
A black iron billyclub in this world
a red hot poker in the next
Enlightenment is what we need , here now
not religion
Black Fire on White Fire
As loud as the sun
inside me , bright
as the inner Light
spilling its spell of protons & photons
thro the funnel of my skull
These words made flesh
in the flash of utterance
I write with my whole body in my hand
writing
my body
spelling my body
speaking my name
inside me , bright
as the inner Light
spilling its spell of protons & photons
thro the funnel of my skull
These words made flesh
in the flash of utterance
I write with my whole body in my hand
writing
my body
spelling my body
speaking my name
What does yr soul look like?
I believe that
in a future not too distant
or too different from the past
a science far more sacred than our own
Someday will deduce and prove
the existence of a spiritual body
for every body
And we’ll photograph
and show each other our souls
and laugh out loud and weigh
starlight’s tenuous but ponderable shadow
And sit here and wonder silently
how it is
we never knew this about ourselves before
in a future not too distant
or too different from the past
a science far more sacred than our own
Someday will deduce and prove
the existence of a spiritual body
for every body
And we’ll photograph
and show each other our souls
and laugh out loud and weigh
starlight’s tenuous but ponderable shadow
And sit here and wonder silently
how it is
we never knew this about ourselves before
from "Circling Around Circles"
(1)
Fiction is true
and the Poet’s ability to apprehend the truth in fiction
Keeps the story in play
keeps the plot thickening
Incorporates as many seemingly contradictory
or paradoxical
or mutually exclusive elements as possible
in an ever-expanding W H O L E
The great power of fictive imagination
resides in its bringing into a single story
The most heterogeneous aspects of
our experience of the world
(3)
Sentences turning back upon themselves
convoluted continually creshendoing contours of consciousness
majestic mountains of metamorphorizing
schizophrenic - autistic
ambiguous use of clauses
conversions of gerunds back into verbums
tacking on of Verb to predicate Object
so that Object becomes Subject
all nouns becoming verbs
Sentences circling
around circles
spiral-wise
(5)
“The track down which everything passes
is backward turning "
"The way there
is the way back "
"Up & Down
One & the same "
(6)
There is always more Time remaining
World whirls round & round in circles
and there is no where any where on a circle
where the circle begins or ends
Every turning a means for the next turn
each turn mutually pushing
and pulling the next turn into shape
each the seed each the leaven
for a new rise into embodied
being as it was always will be
there is no where any where in a wheel’s turning
where the wheelturning begins or ends
(and it goes without saying that
if the wheelturning stopt turning
there would never be
nothing to know
there was no turning
round wheeling
mandala spinning
no more )
Fiction is true
and the Poet’s ability to apprehend the truth in fiction
Keeps the story in play
keeps the plot thickening
Incorporates as many seemingly contradictory
or paradoxical
or mutually exclusive elements as possible
in an ever-expanding W H O L E
The great power of fictive imagination
resides in its bringing into a single story
The most heterogeneous aspects of
our experience of the world
(3)
Sentences turning back upon themselves
convoluted continually creshendoing contours of consciousness
majestic mountains of metamorphorizing
schizophrenic - autistic
ambiguous use of clauses
conversions of gerunds back into verbums
tacking on of Verb to predicate Object
so that Object becomes Subject
all nouns becoming verbs
Sentences circling
around circles
spiral-wise
(5)
“The track down which everything passes
is backward turning "
"The way there
is the way back "
"Up & Down
One & the same "
(6)
There is always more Time remaining
World whirls round & round in circles
and there is no where any where on a circle
where the circle begins or ends
Every turning a means for the next turn
each turn mutually pushing
and pulling the next turn into shape
each the seed each the leaven
for a new rise into embodied
being as it was always will be
there is no where any where in a wheel’s turning
where the wheelturning begins or ends
(and it goes without saying that
if the wheelturning stopt turning
there would never be
nothing to know
there was no turning
round wheeling
mandala spinning
no more )
from "I Was (a mystic teenage mutant)"
(aka "Black Swan")
“People are so alienated from their own soul
that when they meet their soul they
think it comes from another star system”
– Terence McKenna
1
A profound sense of exile
is the lot
of the Poet
Who undertakes to recognize and recover
all that has been lost
all along our long slow sojourn here
2
His will be
a quest to extend his vision
both below and beyond the limits
of the measurable
To include all that our cultyr excludes
or occults or hides from itself
the Mysteries of being all of us
are born temporarily blind to
3
He will come to religion
thro the back door
&c . . .
He will carry the alien
nation w/ him where
ever he goes
The house that he builds
w/ his own two hands
will feel like a place of exile
from inside
12
"In the shamanic tradition only a person who has healed himself is regarded as a wise man, be cause only such a person truly knows the dark secrets of the psyche. Thus in a psychological sense the seeker of knowledge is ill. His illness is usually due to a combination of physical and conflictual psychological tensions. During the course of his illness the seeker struggles dramatically and valiantly [. . .]"
13
His Angel had to fall, in order to save him.
How else could the imponderable secrets of Heaven be given him?
The Angels who give saving knowledge to men and women are the very same Angels we consider fallen.
Some will tempt with forbidden fruit. Some will wrestle you to the ground. Still others will bind and gag you into surrender.
His Angel gave him a book, a book no one had ever seen. A book that no one has ever seen since.
14
I turn the pages
in the dark
and find the Wyrd
no one has ever written
“People are so alienated from their own soul
that when they meet their soul they
think it comes from another star system”
– Terence McKenna
1
A profound sense of exile
is the lot
of the Poet
Who undertakes to recognize and recover
all that has been lost
all along our long slow sojourn here
2
His will be
a quest to extend his vision
both below and beyond the limits
of the measurable
To include all that our cultyr excludes
or occults or hides from itself
the Mysteries of being all of us
are born temporarily blind to
3
He will come to religion
thro the back door
&c . . .
He will carry the alien
nation w/ him where
ever he goes
The house that he builds
w/ his own two hands
will feel like a place of exile
from inside
12
"In the shamanic tradition only a person who has healed himself is regarded as a wise man, be cause only such a person truly knows the dark secrets of the psyche. Thus in a psychological sense the seeker of knowledge is ill. His illness is usually due to a combination of physical and conflictual psychological tensions. During the course of his illness the seeker struggles dramatically and valiantly [. . .]"
13
His Angel had to fall, in order to save him.
How else could the imponderable secrets of Heaven be given him?
The Angels who give saving knowledge to men and women are the very same Angels we consider fallen.
Some will tempt with forbidden fruit. Some will wrestle you to the ground. Still others will bind and gag you into surrender.
His Angel gave him a book, a book no one had ever seen. A book that no one has ever seen since.
14
I turn the pages
in the dark
and find the Wyrd
no one has ever written
Thursday, February 21, 2013
σοφία
(The gnostic Wisdom
outside of the human drama
to contain & be activated by
it is profoundly useless )
1)
the cultivation of energy-states
in man
the many multitudes of Form
She takes on
each one solely the issue
of the time
of the moment
of Her creation
2)
how the heat of Her
in me in that instance
solid congeals
crystallizes to crystal
under the sign of this
one right here
out of the archetype of my self
through the symbol of the man
I am
or will become
3)
Wise Dame
Her Self
in the habit of the moment
right here right now
She comes for me
every time I write
or else the words
come not at all
outside of the human drama
to contain & be activated by
it is profoundly useless )
1)
the cultivation of energy-states
in man
the many multitudes of Form
She takes on
each one solely the issue
of the time
of the moment
of Her creation
2)
how the heat of Her
in me in that instance
solid congeals
crystallizes to crystal
under the sign of this
one right here
out of the archetype of my self
through the symbol of the man
I am
or will become
3)
Wise Dame
Her Self
in the habit of the moment
right here right now
She comes for me
every time I write
or else the words
come not at all
Thaumaturgy
To speak of
transformation is
to present an
instance of transformation
"One cannot speak of
transformation without
transforming oneself "
sd the angel to the boy
Thus every instance
of transformation is
an announcement of
the transformation that
one is in the very act
of accomplishing
psychoanalyschizosynthesis
transformation is
to present an
instance of transformation
"One cannot speak of
transformation without
transforming oneself "
sd the angel to the boy
Thus every instance
of transformation is
an announcement of
the transformation that
one is in the very act
of accomplishing
psychoanalyschizosynthesis
Elohim
Field Forces
fold
in >< out
in spiral
aspires all
Form
1.
the Forces are the Forge
that Form the Forms
on fire in all directions
fold
in >< out
in spiral
aspires all
Form
1.
the Forces are the Forge
that Form the Forms
on fire in all directions
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
"apocalyptic master mind"
(from 'YHshVH Poems' an ongoing work-in-progress)
YHshVH was executed for sedition against Imperial Rome
for encouraging & supporting the Galilee insurrection
a bastard Romanish Jew
under the screws of two antagonistic cultyrs
at war with one another
and for many years after his death
a heightening of violence afterword ensued
like a hidden leaven
He, yes even HE
was widely held to be
a disturbed individual
radical revolutionary supported by terrorists
savage mystic believer in sympathetic magic
spiritual figurehead of tribal insurgents
apocalyptic master mind
He had a way about Him
of picking up others’ torches and carrying them
so far
in the distance his predecessors were forgotten
LIGHT they lit for me
pathway in the dark
revealed by the LIGHT
inside my house am I
all lit up by their LIGHT
everywhere inside . . .
YHshVH was executed for sedition against Imperial Rome
for encouraging & supporting the Galilee insurrection
a bastard Romanish Jew
under the screws of two antagonistic cultyrs
at war with one another
and for many years after his death
a heightening of violence afterword ensued
like a hidden leaven
He, yes even HE
was widely held to be
a disturbed individual
radical revolutionary supported by terrorists
savage mystic believer in sympathetic magic
spiritual figurehead of tribal insurgents
apocalyptic master mind
He had a way about Him
of picking up others’ torches and carrying them
so far
in the distance his predecessors were forgotten
LIGHT they lit for me
pathway in the dark
revealed by the LIGHT
inside my house am I
all lit up by their LIGHT
everywhere inside . . .
"Our words are"
Our words are
literally
our World
Their permission
what they lead us to
is all we have now
All
we’ll ever have
literally
our World
Their permission
what they lead us to
is all we have now
All
we’ll ever have
Vow
1
this body was born
and I know it will die
will be eaten up by sun
washd away by sea
2
I have enterd it
like an egg in the shell
and like a bird
going to another nest
when this one is rotted
I shall enter in
to different bodies
again and again
3
thus have I ever been
from beginning to end
of this world
giving up successive bodies
and assuming ever new ones
over & over ever again
4
and having
in the space of time
gotten in
to this present body
I am in this way
made to go
round
in an endless going round
and round on an endless circle
cycle
of beginningless births
and deathless deaths
5
until the meaning of my mattering
no longer matters, and the sphere
of my spirit
is pure spirit
6
and I peer out
in to the appearing
of a child
as a sun beam
through the eyehole
of a clearing
7
and I come to my senses at last
8
and I've determined to put an end
to my beginning without end
9
and I vow
never
again
to be
found on
this endless wheel of
these monstrous
transformigrations of Me
this body was born
and I know it will die
will be eaten up by sun
washd away by sea
2
I have enterd it
like an egg in the shell
and like a bird
going to another nest
when this one is rotted
I shall enter in
to different bodies
again and again
3
thus have I ever been
from beginning to end
of this world
giving up successive bodies
and assuming ever new ones
over & over ever again
4
and having
in the space of time
gotten in
to this present body
I am in this way
made to go
round
in an endless going round
and round on an endless circle
cycle
of beginningless births
and deathless deaths
5
until the meaning of my mattering
no longer matters, and the sphere
of my spirit
is pure spirit
6
and I peer out
in to the appearing
of a child
as a sun beam
through the eyehole
of a clearing
7
and I come to my senses at last
8
and I've determined to put an end
to my beginning without end
9
and I vow
never
again
to be
found on
this endless wheel of
these monstrous
transformigrations of Me
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
"Ecstasy"
woven in thorny crosses
on a spiral spike
I break open
in fiery blossoms
my body a flowerbed
red roses in bloom
My chin on yr heart
beating fast my face
blushing with flame
Yr voice is every
where yr body every
where
where yr body every
where
I take yr hand in mine
its reach fills my grasp
at last I am touching sky
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