That very rounded self keeps coming back to the same feelings, perceptions, etc, those repetitions doing real work here, Lawrence.
I like it too...
Doug
On 2012-03-08, at 5:29 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> I can imagine being dead –
> and, presumably, removed as waste –
> being, nevertheless, being,
> more aware than I'd been living
>
> alive to an aesthetic sense,
> full of my own centrality
> as one is of anything dominant
> even if it is not present
>
> knowing hearing filling a head
> beyond the imagination
> and impossible in one deceased
> neither in heaven nor in hell
>
> a consciousness concentrating
> on now and now and now and now
> to an outside metrication
> without understanding without
>
> the dimension of dimensions
> a pendulum slowly turning
> unto circles of rounding self
> into circles of rounded self
>
>
> -----
> Lawrence Upton
> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
> Goldsmiths, University of London
> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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>
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> Lawrence Upton
> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
> Goldsmiths, University of London
> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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