" a photograph ... a distillation of the subject's silence "

" a drawing ... an imposition of the artist's silence "

The Silenced Moment- 78  Biguenet

t h o s e   s t o r i e s

blink

(108)

plash

waning gibbous

recession

1 s t   w a v e    f u l l   m o o n

in
this dream
i drown

open sunless day
open sightless sleep
open driftless mind 

full moon 27 degrees

walking the river
last night
sleeping soundly for 8 hours

apples on the river

w a t e r f a l l i c e

Look once,
twice -

a vertical/horizontal scansion.

stop to

overcome by

directed towards

Lunging (a sudden forward thrust)
p lunging
water
falls.

Rapid(s)
course.

Fish
favor
deep edges
where water and wind
don't run together.

But one without the other? No deep edges?
Silence spume and whitewater?

luft

pause

luft

pause

l u n g t a

r e s t

p a u s e

l u n g a

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1 4 ° F 1 6 ° F

f a u l t

o u i j a

apostille

Build yourself an island.
Make the effort quickly and become a wise man.

18.238. Dhammpada

if under the edge of

lifted and pushed

magnesium

fulvic

refuse

refugia

what is this angle of

watery blackness?

f r o n t i e r

to contain
an outbreak of

one degree (minus 17)

new moon

which is a

welcome too

islands tasked with clotting the sea



(remembering Mishima's stream where Edo stones, moss-runed, lift and sink with the seasons)

"What is water, which has not taste or colour of its own, but a liquid form of Nothing? And what are the Fens, which so imitate in their levelness the natural disposition of water, but a landscape which, of all landscapes, most approximates to Nothing? ...every Fenman suffers now and then the illusion that the land (walked) over is not there, is floating....

-Waterlands, Graham Swift

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