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“Kontakion”: A Note to the Reader
An Icon of the Mouth so far consists of two parts: Garment & Raiment; & The Fire Balsam. A third & concluding part, tentatively entitled Aural Figures, is currently underway. Based speculatively on the life of iconographer & saint Andrei Rublev, The Fire Balsam consists of an introductory sermon on what little is known about […]
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Zach Barocas, contributor
Suggested Reading Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community, by Wendell Berry Film at Wit’s End, by Stan Brakhage Sadly, poems by William Fuller Exigent Futures, poems by Michael Heller Anarchy, poems by Mark Scroggins Suggested Listening Libra/Another Earth CD, Gary Bartz Feast of Wire CD, Calexico Dealin’ LP, Richard Davis Heavy!!! CD, Booker Ervin Hearts of […]
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Kontakion
Axiomatic, Andrei Rublev invented light: the wound & the eye are one. Like eyes after sleep, the wound gently opens. Like eyesight resisting focus, the wound glazes over. Like the fluid in the eyesac, the wound is rich with salt. As the sea invokes a massive innerness; as the deserts were once the depths of […]
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02.01.03
Here we are in a new year & I wonder if that noted tick of the clock is cause for celebration or distress. However you handle new years, I trust this update will soothe or amplify, depending on your need. We’ve got poems from Devin Johnston, & Stacy Szymaszek; & weather-centered images from CultSoc Eye-on-the-citizenry […]
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Zach Barocas, contributor
Suggested Reading On Judaism, by Martin Buber LVNG 10: Translations, edited by Joel Felix, Michael O’Leary, & Peter O’Leary On Book Design, by Richard Hendel Collected Writings of Michael Snow, by Michael Snow Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film, edited by Charles Warren Suggested Listening Duet in Detroit CD, Roy Brooks Let’s Kill Saturday Night […]
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The Hedge
Before and after storms she sought the head or privet hedge — a thorny glass in which fear might find a semi-private roost, plumage ruffled after rain; or beak expectantly tipped toward the sky — a spoon in tea. Needs descend through film from cloud to fence, fence to branch, and then — entanglements, she […]
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from Some Mariners
ship followers song reports within watch coats inner pockets of stale cake will joint voyage for bodily eruption from plaits downy mast head meeting • • • meteor de-orbits and burns re-enters what was Friday 20 tons of debris O people on Fiiijiii! • • • divide hour into smaller units water clock futurist […]
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12.17.02
Where does the time go? A month ago I thought I was going to have an early update for you all; but alas, my ducks scattered from their tidy row & I’m coming up a bit behind schedule. Could I be more sorry? Probably, but it would do little good. This update contains poems from […]