justwrite 3 june

in all likelihood today’s highest-rated activity was staring out the window with music or without while cleaning or after or before or within the middle of the panes pressed not close together enough to bluff the listener the viewer the truer sense of dimension is lost in the tossed-about strategy figuring out the swirls of dust pressed into the rust the transparent passage of time here trapped between scenes the viewer and the view with nothing much to do but prove an object that’s not in motion will stay so without anyone’s say so and that’s what’s been going on just suspended animation an amber state of grace replacing action with contracting brain cells the main well too deep to be dry but too high to fit the definition it’s a spring it’s a fountain it’s a plateau it’s a mountain and there’s where the nonsense comes in even with a reasonable beginning to which I’ll return I burned sunlight and also thoughts of a candle but haven’t handled the follow-through on the last one it’s a lot more fun to consider without having to deliver on all the imaginings but the tragedy rings loud and clear when there’s no steering on account of fearing but no worries this hurry hasn’t hesitated because of too-late translation from fear to hear it’s just easier to hinge sometimes to rewind and again and the strands don’t always get tied together sometimes tarred and feathered is the right solution to a loose union of bad ideas just out with the gold and in with the silver says the bronze-medal winter the chilliest filling station this side of Vancouver and there’s a lot in that area as you might imagine there’s no way to tell how much lead ought to be got out of that gasoline but the paint chips off the old block and tocks the clock in the right direction reading the instructions that didn’t come with building myself a personal myth out of favorites and colors not horoscopes but numbers the tied-together oreo dreams that seem to be arriving in buffet style unable to be compiled with riveting detail but without fail not quite passing