I use this wooden dipper to stir up wind and waves.
......
Even when the plum  has wilted and winter has reached its deepest cold,
do not let your body be numb or your mind absent.

d o g e n 

" f l u i d i t y . . .

a search for a piece of structure."

- Fanny Howe   university of chicago 2013  Silliman's blog 12.27.14

water painting now
you and I sewn together

limits
bounds
stories
sounds

zhongnan mountain
white river junction


inside land
outside land

never far
from where you are

f i l t e r

f l u x

24th near dusk ice free

arrival of

milwaukee and supai
water
undammed
ice free

f a l l

saw
and started more

f
a
l
l
i
n
g

through darkness

as I paint this day
unbalanced
drawn out
left with not empty
but clear  

t o d a y ' s w o r k

fell
as I do
into work
and falling saw
how water rises and rushes
in direction away from its source

This, paused,
I painted.

b h a d r a

painting the water mind

walking the water mind

mourning the water mind

sleeping the water mind

stilling the water mind

flowing the water mind

keeping the water mind

losing the water mind

observing the water mind

p a i n t

this watery wait between

as I send darkness down
rubbing in
white light

a r c h i p e l a g o

t o m b o l o

a sudden thaw

not expected
out of time with the cold
loosened breaks and bubbles
splintered clear
blotted white
submerged
over black
move vertically
touching shore
tipping
unanchored
under

t h a w e d w a t e r

l u m e n

seiche

This teacup -
I'm at the swished lip

position

source
cave
pool


among trees

mountain

valley


river

sequence - turbulent and placid numbers

Our watery selves are awash in numbers. We negotiate rapids, falls, dangerously silent shallows, all
equations of our mortality. Our consciousness can be described as a direct result of our proofs for existence. These proofs can of course be fallible - there is no shortage of the indefensible, the "but it is so" and "how can it be otherwise". If we are guided by our watery self, we can glimpse how seeming contradiction and implausibility fog our insight.

Consider repeated attempts to arrive at an equation for turbulent flow - an admirable cascade of qualities, integers, arrivals and departures.

Consider the thresholds of silence - solitude, death, infinity. The numbers are there, beautiful, still, but where are we?

Here. Voyagers. Our navigational charts and stones evolving, exterior synapses, our familial chordata.

The Kappas of the mind!

rivière coule cuivre (river runs copper)

c h a n n e l

not instance

recurrence

welcome ache

well worn imagination

nudging  repetition

d r e a m

yellow pine  

copper  needles

over earth

among trees


in this green wood

blue flags

blinking like stars

k e y a

wind chill -5F

steel chime birdsong

thrush voiced

owlish stutter

somewhat red
as
cold
as reflected eye as
stopping
here
at night

k i t s u n e

r e t u r n

i didn't expect the the wordlessness

living in another lan(d)guage

my talking mind retired

t a n u k i

J e n ' s (f i s h)

copyright Jen Hitchings 2014

words returning
pictures drifting into sight

d r e a m (etcetera)

med så på

(with so on)

continue

attention

bending fingers


bowing mind

g h o s t

wandering

home.

queer.

it's not here,

but everywhere.

k a l p a

r y o k o k u j i

all that is

i chi mizu

s t u d i o k u r a

h o u s e h o l d   g o d s

33 names itoshima

白い蛇                  shiroi hebi                             white snake
リードヘビ          miyara hime hebi                  miyara collared snake
百足                                                    makude                                 centipede

蜘蛛                      kumo                                      spider
ヤスデ                  yasude                                    millipede
カメムシ              kamemushi                             stink bug

蟹                          kani                                        crab
鮭                                         sake                                        salmon
牡蠣                      kaki                                        oyster

柿                          kaki                                        persimmon
林檎                      ringo                                      apple
温州ミカン          unshu mikan                          satsuma orange

鶴                          tsuru                                       crane
鷺                          sagi                                         heron
白鷺                      shira sagi                                egret

鴉                          karasu                                     crow
鷹                          taka                                         hawk
梟                          fukurō                                     owl 

滝                          taki                                          waterfall
寺                          tera                                           temple
場                          ba                                             field  

場                          hogi                                               broom     
旗                          hata                                           flag
風                          kaze                                          wind

河口                      kawaguchi                                estuary
海                          umi                                           ocean
小川                      ogawa                                       brook

竹                          take                                           bamboo
杉材                      sugi-zai                                     cedar
松                          matsu                                        pine

餅                          mochi                                       rice sweet
そば                      soba                                         buckwheat noodle                                            
味噌                      miso                                         soybean paste

household god

Kura blue broom

c a n a l

b r a c k i s h

Watch
walking sakaki branch
scud crab cloudwise
across sand
toward sea.

Shift
drift,
find surprising
focus.

There are, Dogen says, so many understandings and mysteries that it is impossible to feel helpless or powerful.

So much left -
but not you.

The sand swept clean by wind

A pink millipede struggles at tideline.

Even with all those legs, my little friend, you can't run back into life.

household gods

sweep

wash

cook

wish-fulfilling jewel (m i r r o r)

I n a r i - harvest canal

harvest water, tree wings between typhoons (soon)

大豆  daizu (soybean)

米 kome   (rice)

サツマイモ  satsumaimo (sweet potato)

ピメント  pīman (pimiento)

柿 kaki (persimmon)

b e a d s at 1 5 : 0 0 h (W)

 33° 32' 36" N / 130° 8' 25" E 

Her(e) light

If sun speaks,
watch it whisper.
Not weak!
Listening.

-  for Megumi Fukuda
   Installation
   Itoshima Farm 2014

e c l i p s e

scattered rice on fresh dug earth 

last heat

first blood 
typhoon moon.

名残 (relic)

正午の海 (noon sea)

We cannot find the beginning.

Every time we look for it,

it escapes backward.

Consciousness -

why is it that,

traveling continents,

as water,

as mountain,

as stars,

enormous holes exist within us?

k i n g t i d e

63 blue eyes

no more wish list

every day 

this wish 

(an excellent day for fishing)

this.

tide 21:20 full moon 18:28 11h 35m of sun

for inger christensen

i n c a n t a t i o n s

c e n o t a p h

for you
elsewhere

household gods

earth
air
metal
wood
water

108 thrice
cenozoic basalt
rose    quartz
milky quartz

lift
water
and sweet potato.

loosen soil.


plant here.

l u c i d i t y
self-sustaining
c  i  t  y
a description of
r e s o l u (e) t i o n (of)
(and airports)
( and climate)
( and cadmium)
( a murmuration of)

ryukokuji

opened up
the garden for you
does dust
feel green?

outside in itoshima

First Inari
now Benzaiten
mountain water
waking up
even the wind inescapable
among the mudflat crab and river snails
the green rice blue heron
snowy egret
white stork
the pine raven echoes
last crickets
root crops
left in the fields

n w p a s s a g e

ice-free

debt to Inuit

the middle way

nobody thought you'd

__________________


but you did.

l i b e r a t i o n

at 52 degrees
covered with hair better than bare-skinned

anger.


yet would cut the coat to cold
to find it, set it free.

l u n g t a

bone stones on blue flags
you
in Japan
saw lettuce and children's hands
land
is water strong

# 2 5 5 9

this
opened

all
stones
are bones


yours.

c   e   l   e   s   t   e

d o g g e r l a n d
had
fir bolg / tuatha mythologies
a history of water and wood


flooded
paper

stones

provenance f c g

leaves and wind believe


I am


we


stone  wood  bone  leaf  wind  me


walt    john   emily.

b r o n z e s

" f is to c as c is to g as 2 is to 3 "

1        2/3        3/4



3 cups   
5th in fours

clearly

one tonic intuition

i n d r i f t

multiples of

12 (1 2 3 4 6)              5th chord

99 (1 11 3 33 9 99)     psychological
                                    ontological
                                    integers

riding   Berry's   paradox   home


1 0 8

a golden reminder

i am, i fear, fragile, uncertain
wish it were always so
as to grow
requires
undertow
as well as
passion.

f l o w

a l l
o v e r
a l l
u n d e r

a l l


a t   o n c e.

7 s o n g s

o  n  e
short piano pieces  
1 
a l l i t e r a t i o n
2
a s s o n a n c e
3
p e n t i m e n t i
4
c h o r a l  r e f r a m e 
5
t  e l  l u r i s t
6
s y n c h r o n i c i t y
7
s u b s i d e n c e

t w o
chorus 
all that was won't be again  

t h r e e
f e r m a t a 
second syllable of 
Old English seofon; related to Gothic sibun, German sieben, Old Norse sjau, Latin septem, Greek hepta, Sanskrit saptá

4     
a t t a c c a 
mirroring c# no. 14 major opus 131
1   a d a g i o  
2   a l l e g r o 
3   a l l e g r o   m o d e r a t o  –  a d a g i o
4   andante – più mosso – andante – adagio – Allegretto – Adagio – Allegretto
5   p r e s t o
6   a d a g i o 
7   a l l e g r o

5
c a e s u r a   i n f i n i t u m  

andropos
| |

musaapa

6

Ava                                     overturning

Avarroes ( ابن رشد )        sustaining

as

after

an

accidental  note

7
for nevel, the lost lyre

cardinal

sum

prime

mover
(alpha privative + gnostic)

  

s h u t t e r

There is a clearing in the room,
in all the rooms,
a relaxing of impressions, 
no one to witness.


But something is closing in, 
cutting brightness to a sliver,
an eclipsed remnant. 


Something is opening up, 
overexposed,
washed into radiant impenetrability.

h y d r o n y m 1

S e i n e
a river
is a root 

which is 
a net
hanging vertically
encircling


which is 
30,000  kms
( c e n t u r i e s )
of 

u s

p r e c i o u s ( s ) m a l l

there is not enough of anything

ever

d r i f t e d ( f o u n d s o u n d s )

D  N  G  H  U  S  ☛  S ó g i t i s

(Grimm's Law)
(Proto Indo-European)
k  i  n  d  s    o  f

3  3
3  3
θʌs ð  ə  r   t i   t r i
drifts in and out of

what is migratory

random

remembered.


1  2  albanian anatolian(extinct) armenian baltic celtic germanic helleniic indo-iranian italic slavic tocharian unclear but indo-european  
8  1  the role of contact in the origins of the korean and japanese languages
             (81-111)  what non-human primates can tell us (review)
9  3  percent of language is body language

✓         i  n  v  e  n  t  i  o  n
✓         d i s p o s i t i o n
✓         d  e  l  i  v  e  r  y


why does sign survive species?
where is location located?


pan- glottalism

fluid states

ef
ef-flu
effluvium


i  m  p  o  s  s  i  b  l  e  ?
i  m  p  r  o  b  a  b l  e  ?

m e t a t a x i s

yellow
yellow
white

light

then music

shadow

repeat

john nepomucene
saint of  running water
drowned in the moldau
for his his refusal
to spill confession

florian
whom john above could've invoked
but didn't
saves the drowned

as would
molecular buoyancy
which
if accessed
even pushes through martryrdom
into the air

caveat

redemption?

re:

source.

d i f f l u e n c e

b r o k e n b i g t h i n g s

c  i  r  c  u  l  a  t  i  o  n

m n e m o n i c

      (      s        o        l        s        t        i        c        e       )  

The things which I can see I now can see no more.  - wordswort

i c h t h y s

(     s        c        a        l        e     )  

H u m b o l d t ' s e f f l u v i a

w    a    t    e    r

u    n    d    e    r 

t   h   e

b   r   i   d   g   e