Sunday, September 03, 2006

These Trees Only Appear to be Growing out of a Rock

The skin is not always an exact fit. That is, the skin approximates the movement of the body, which is almost the same as, which is somewhat related to, the movement of the mind. It's no use saying someone or something was standing inside in the rain. One step removed. Any of the names would do. We enter this space without speaking. We approximate the movement. Harmony, despite us, overrides the motion. That is to say, drowns us out. Correlation. Oblivious to other options, as in, any of the names would do. Did do. And this too is etched between us. Everything should fit in this box. Everything the sign did not, in fact, say. Is it possible that nothing is possible? Some body part remembered, intervened. It's no use saying something has happened. This spray-painted memory*. Or, arrow pointing toward 'whatever you can get.'

* 'Give me penguin dust' on a house or was it a fence near the lower 9th ward 10 months after Katrina in New Orleans