A Rune, Interminable by Marie Ponsot

A Rune, Interminable

Low above the moss
a sprig of scarlet berries
soon eaten or blackened
tells time.

          Go to a wedding
          as to a funeral:
          bury the loss.

         Go to a funeral
         as to a wedding:
         marry the loss.

         Go to a coming
         as to a going:
         unhurrying.

         Time is winter-green.
         Seeds keep time.
         Time, so kept, carries us
         across to no-time where

         no time is lost.

Buddhist Cave Painting, Kyzil, Central Asia

Vanished cities and cultures of the Silk Roads

Red

Red*


limited movements

determinant formatting

resultant karma

Let go à

Eternal Dream Abundance

Diligent Effort

turning light

narrow faucet

limited responses

determine entire

OBLIGATIONS

The eternal white cloth

rolls out

Space

Awaiting

Ink

&

brush

laminates

cold molded

shaped

turned

John Bailes, Kotatsu Roko

Friday, 23 March 2012

Rinsho’s Roost, Muir Beach, California

* n. 1. a. The hue of  the long-wave end of the visible spectrum, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 630 to 750 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue resembles that of blood; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues. b. A pigment or dye having a red hue. c. Something that has a red hue. 2. a. often Red A Communist. b. A revolutionary activist. adj. red·der, red·dest: 1. Having a color resembling that of blood. 2. Reddish in color or having parts that are reddish in color: a red dog; a red oak. 3. a. Having a reddish or coppery skin color. b. often Red Offensive Of or being a Native American. 4. Having a ruddy or flushed complexion: red with embarrassment. 5. often Red Communist Idiom: in the red:  Operating at a loss; in debt. [Middle English, from Old English rēad; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.]

Evolution

          Evolution

          took

          the passway to the

                    side

          signifying violence

          Stuck in being

                    smart enough

          to have a calculator for

                    the Holocaust.

          Evolved into the computer.

          “This is only the range of

                    experience”.


Alice Notley, Songs and Stories of the Ghouls, p. 173