Thanks Doug...I will revise that. Thanks for looking!
-Peter
On 12/11/06, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> And all gone down, in the image, Peter.
>
> I like the edenesque helmet floating away, lost.
>
> In the poem, I find the variations on 'is'/'are' etc get in the way; it
> would 'freeze' the whole better without them for me....
>
> Doug
> On 10-Dec-06, at 11:40 PM, Peter Ciccariello wrote:
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> > Language as authority
> >
> > Spoken words woven through a brooding heaven
> > The dark Eden remains the box in the brain
> > Remains a spectacle of conscience
> > Witchcraft or your own personal pornography
> > This truth is beyond a suitable extension
> > This truth is uttered in veiled acrimony
> > Words written in the arrangement of a shadow
> > The arrangement of a box in the brain
> > When the direction is just like that, just like that
> > When the words are spoken just like that
> > All is empty, clear, and self-illuminating
> > Defining the spectacle, authority by default
> > Conversation as compromise, self-doubt sustains
> > All this spoken as the written word binds
> > To all that is empty, clear, and self-illuminating
> > To simply say when doubt arises - the town burns
> > The community rises hysterically against itself
> > The words shoot out like cannon balls and float
> > To the ground like pages from an abandoned book
> > What a ruined reliquary, your voice, your tiny, harmless words!
> >
> > Language as
> > authority<http://www.cgi7.com/peterimages/language-as-authority2.jpg>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > - Peter Ciccariello
> > http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> Douglas Barbour
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> If
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> a city is an invention
> why are we not there
>
> Kathleen Fraser
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