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Two Symmetrical Suns Illumine the Animal Mask

In memory of twin suns.

In memory of bone & wood.

In memory of transformation.

In memory of antlers.

In magic.

In ecstatic chaos completely forgotten

two symmetrical suns illumine the animal mask.

In memory of stone.

In memory of starlight.

In shape-shifting completely forgotten

two symmetrical suns illumine the animal mask.

Intermediaries of the Otherworld

mediate touch in your fingertips

& mediate muscle

rising the mounts of your palm,

& mediate the joints flexible in your thumbs.

Nine Lives

Nine lives in nine stones.

I put a spell on you.

History doesn’t repeat unless it rhymes.

A manuscript forgery evaporates in rhyme. Edges evaporate.

Count the scratch marks.

You sift metallic ink. The edges of stone, wood and glass evaporate.

Within the inner chambers, draped within unfolded cotton,

stone, wood and glass forms vibrate, casting shadows.

Beneath a flowering tree, outside the asylum, I wait for the last train.

You read my mind in your depths.

You chanted a truth enchanting. You vanished like a flower.

History evaporates reality.

I check the schedule beneath a flowering tree.

Northern Lights slip low, cascading, casting effusive spells.

‘Three Pots for the Poorhouse’ Action by Joseph Beuys

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Poetic testimony a’shifting 

mother barely

 threadbare stirring

peas & porridge nine days old in the pot

shadows

a’shifting

golden vibrations overflow

cauldrons

circling

three places

the oak  the stag

a’shifting

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  Black and white images influenced by readings of Ferdinand the Bull as a child

Ferdinand’s delight inhaling perfumed flowers beneath a gnarly tree

papery Spanish ink ascribing metamorphosis to performance 

  in emanations of the ancient, kinetically flowing spine

in rainfall of visionary code addressing wounds

strenuous chalking of shamanic timelines

 body politic of dreamtime silence

battery pack wire testimony

pale butcher’s twine

binding frayed

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mountain road

June 10, 1974

 Edinburgh, Scotland

three pots

Joseph Beuys:

Blackboards and drawings of pots from

Three Pots for the Poorhouse Action

Photo credit: Richard Demarco