Words II Having material weight, a poem can be shaped, sculptured and refined; erected as units, structures, factories, bridges, outhouses and T O W E R S Or miraculously sus- pended in the air, b u o y a n t black crafts in the milky void. Or else bolted upright at the base of the world, and supported by its own true and deep foundations

A Poem Is a cluster of black atoms, of varied shapes and connections, configured with an inclination towards sense and suspended in a white and finite void

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 words ought to ‘stand up’ so that a poem is like a tree when the leaves are cut off -- it ‘be- comes a mast’.

Prayer hall inside the Grand Choral Synagogue Makom It is It is a place, It is a place, Makom, It is a place, Makom, where animal and man, may be called to ascend, ascend the mount, ascend the stair, ascend to a space where the Name has enholied some stony ground, a place where one can say in the presence of time, 'Here I am, Here I am, I am a being-there.'