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A Code of Nature with a Subject
Once a code of nature without a subject.  Now: language tongue, la , signifying  Illness, la , a foreign verb linked to other verbs,  ...

Richard Mather


Everything Adds up to Zero
This means a stationary object stays equal. And the object remains in the same state of motion force. The resultant force is zero. Â ...

Richard Mather


in your eyes, the sun
in your eyes, the sun is dazzling white, the wind shifts your scarf, blows through the gaps of your coat. for me, nothing shines or moves...

Richard Mather


Ezra Pound's Apparition
Ezra Pound's Apparition When I called for the Direct treatment of the thing, Ezra Pound saw at once that if Words are to be as things,...

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Apeiron
Apeiron beginning; ur-reality: eternal, infinite, boundless, indefinite; yielding every thing through the actions of opposites:...

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Mast/Tree
The piling up of words into units, struc- tures, towers, is what might be termed the phallic unity of lang- uage. It was Hulme who said...

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Embodiment
The eye looks, the ear waits, the head turns, the heart aches, the lung breathes, the hand gropes. Â Skull! cerebral hemispheres! limbic...

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Angling
Angling from eternity to eternity to eternity  Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 29, discovered 1897, Pennsylvania  If a straight line be cut into...

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Cast Iron Shore (the 'Cazzy')
Image: 'A grey day on the Mersey' by Radarsmum67 (Wikimedia) Where the river of tranquillity meets the lake of fire, There...

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An Idle King
I am an idle king, a hollow king With the wind and sea at my back, Whose shade walks among the dread bones of Hades. My ghostly beard is...

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Titan Zero
The weight of the earth is loss: The titans have vanished from the page and Krónos our captain (carrioned by his own creations) lies...

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A Subject without a Code
A Subject without a Code gazoom: a new section opens up undertones of black subterranea. reconstructed man exits the door, passes into...

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A Marvellous Garden
A Marvellous Garden the garden is a luscious lover crushed wine on lips the dark-eyed junco's throat full of whistles and trills the...

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Ecophagy
God was striding the heavens when a snake emerged from a bone black gap between the wet green grasses. Six days passed and earth was in...

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A Poem Is a Picture
Environed by varying degrees of space, Â (depending on where you draw the line), Â a poem is a picture of the artist's mind on a...

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Sin's Body
There is in me a Body of Sin: Sin its own heart and lungs, brain-blood-bones- teeth-tongue; a crown of vice adorns the head; channels and...

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Makom
Prayer hall inside the Grand Choral Synagogue It is It is a place, It is a place, Makom, It is a place, Makom, where animal and man,...

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A Twisted Tree
A twisted tree from sapling green to creek-brown god, nature's will has bent its back, perversed its proper shape: Roots that will not...

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Contraction
Contraction After the fusion of blood and tree, I descended, the voice of derision singing in my ears, past the wet-green eyes of my...

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Red Planet
"red is the colour of the bone snapped back"

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