ON LISTENING

The act's abject. Seduction is an associative art, where this is what's associated, seduced. Ever have a dream where you can look at any intensity light without pain? You are, in “seeing” without sight, listening. Blind persons can use a technique called “flash sonar” to interpret environment through sound reverberations. I had such a dream. I see light was also a voice, a woman's, which says,

wake in my ass

and sit

Unlike Webern on a walk, it is a cruelly impartial coincidence. My fingers, similarly, resemble whole infants – “whole”, that is, not just their fingers. A violinist in playing is convinced she is sawing off her arm, and so fails to by the end of the movement: she is playing the violin.

to roll further in

which I bend to do

not so very. blanket

oak series warming

joints. blanket a loose pant, some

Austrian twig

the light is very bright on the twig

and I can look at it and keep

looking without any pain

who you want to with

a very clean memory, “I want

to see him bare his teeth

like an animal I draw”

favor of itself, want

to not have the right

to be, there in order to

like a porch repair

work and obscurity

picking back up

I pity whatever stranger's ignorance of me. Painless light is sourceless, I learn. I can look, now, at dim light without a sense of it being relief. So that is new too. Aligned at the tooth, which is the key of a low e-flat at the piano, a long rifle shooting parallel the string like were the spine, laying, that. That happens a few times. “I don't want to have the right to be there” - Catherine Breillat.