NaPoWriMo / NaPoREADMo — Day 3 — Cartography III
(apologies for the sound on this one. refrigerator compressor hum.) (no time for a second take....) (think of it as an "environmental" recording.) (me in my environment. the closed café, late at night.) we play here in the fuzziest of maths our paths diverge from us even as we are on the verge of pushing parallels until they converge at the horizon no conflict of interest our interests engulf us and all the world around us is there really a point where one day becomes another? a line demarcating one from the next? a border in time? a break in the line? there are no breaks only endings and beginnings endlessly beginning there is no border between one moment and the next a line in the sand perhaps but this is just a billion grains of silica marking the borders of a negative space where the idea of a line lives one grouping of grains marks where one grouping of grains ends and another begins? one ending begins and one beginning ends? until the sands shift again ~~~~~~ we play here in an endless sandbox our rules engage us in the game of rules the horizontal is always flat while our horizon forever rounds a strangeness of circles embraced by sand these grains embrace us and we forget our lines this sand loves us and loves for us to forget this silica wants to make blue glass marbles to circle about us
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… I shift, therefore I’m sand …
…beginninglessly…no…
Thanks for keeping it going. I’m enjoying your cartography series. So is my husband. I need a map right now.
I need a map of all the maps….
So glad you are both enjoying!
🙂
Those last three lines – what a surprise! I love them. Scale is always interesting, isn’t it? Things are often all happening on the edges, but where did the edges go? I enjoyed listening, too. The hum adds something – a mesmerizing quality.
Thank you, Lynn–I think the edges are where the action is. I am reminded of fractals–the Mandelbrodt Set. Are you familiar? The edges never end….the scaling goes on endlessly…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set
Way too dense! But I get the idea… 🙂
Oh, yes. I can be incredibly dense, for sure. 😉
Somehow this makes me think of an Etch-a-Sketch. Go figure… 🙂 Thanks for turning these ideas of lines into circles and back again.
Ha! Thank you for that take on it. Always refreshing to see my ideas bounced back in new ways.
I am rediscovering your poetry. What a gift.
YOU are a gift!
Thank you Natalie.
You have a really nice voice. Gentle.
Thank you Ashley–I like that much better than wimpy. I always wanted a rich baritone…..
The humming sound adds something, it gives me a feeling of flying, it’s the motor of the aircraft, as we fly over the desert. That moment of transition, transfer from one place to another. Time to think. No need to make a new recording!
Thank you, dear. These things are all about the horizon, the cusp, the borderlands…..
I am now thinking of all the noisy places in my life that I can record a poem…..
Really wonderful … love the use of all the sand images: the smallest grain, to the larger, deeper images — love, memory, time.
Great reading as well.
Thank yOu, John–