Saturday, February 19, 2022

Robin Blaser


Hardcover The Holy Forest Book

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I have told many things and want
to tell more in a small time    to count far off, 
since 'nothing distinguishes me 
ontologically from a crystal, a plant,
an animal, or the order of the world' 
simply
            and 'we drift together toward 
the noise and the black depths
of the universe'      celebrate the 
sudden hang-up of our visibility, 
celebrate the sudden beauty that
is not ourselves     careless   unwrapped
(ducis)   the solar origin drifts 
in the same boat
                              what did
dance in this dancer     was
first the difference among poppies and 
white horses of advertisements,
the snow-storm and the grapes
from Africa     and the smile, exactly 
and repetitions, but joyous, wintering 
in Sais, writing memorable letters out 
of the shattered various crystals, rocks, grottoes, 
leaves, insects, animals, large and
small      'plenitude and enchainment, 
wings, eggshells, clouds and snows'

so, to have forgotten, from the inimitable 
solar mix, 'unwilling to become a
higher key'   on Bach's bedside table,
Leibniz's De Arte Combinatoria,
at the last minute—numbers 
and numbers, multitudes as
the wind is, fish, I had 
forgotten miracles and money 
in the mouth of, walked by, in 
my lanterned garden where the 
nightingale, sometimes jugged to our 
joyance, various, pitch and
glass of magic grammar
and presentiments—the fabled 
universe, solvent and fortunes, 
the assiduous sweetness among 
other stones

there we have headed for frying pans, 
hospitable, and alone, or the same, 
voiceless in the common name,  
scattered colours, earlier shapeless,,
a candy-wrapper with a phone number 
on it suffices to call the largeness, and 
the smallness—what of that & on the  
clothes-line, stiffened handicraft
of meaning, amenable comfort—and 
Persian cats, where the rugs
flowered       take 'real' life
and store it in the cupboards,  
the shoe-strings and decorations
of natural trees—whisper and 
whistle of missing leaves—it's 
winter—or summer      or some 
other time in the great ritual
of plenitude and enchainment

the infinite who belongs to this race 
of many things, the gentle death,
ignorance, and innocence last
summer, the youth of it, the 
violence with roses and ivy, 
sensible words, laughing rose
petal or someone     the inner 
music has worn out—amidst broad
leaves and harbours, linked to
the observer,     submerged
or proximous, exactly like that 
which he loves, startling noise, 
clarity and shadow, the heights 
of ourselves equal to our shadows, 
night and day, the miracle of 
many things, the 'proliferation 
of geneses'

1 . Where is the point of view? Anywhere 
at the source of light. Application, 
relation, measurements are made
possible by aligning landmarks.
Attention. One 
can line up the sun and the top
of the tomb, or the apex of the 
pyramid and the tip of its shadow. 
This means that the site may 
not be fixed at one location.

2. Where is the object? It too must 
be transportable. In fact, it is, 
either by the shadow that it casts 
or the model that it imitates.

3. Where is the source of light? 
It varies, as the gnomen.

It transports the object in the 
form of a shadow. It is the 
object; this is what we will 
call the miracle.             
                                                             )Serres

most beautiful         stars, balls,
tinsel, bubbles, red water, the wand

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