Second Frame
Another Tangle (99.98). St. John's, 2005. Photo by R. Kolewe, vispo by Gary Barwin (click to enlarge).
Some poems you get tangled up in. Some images likewise. Poet Gary Barwin definitely got entangled with this one, first threading a bit of vispo through R. Kolewe's photograph, then giving us 12 verses meditating on wave/particle duality and other knotty problems, and finishing with an audio composition/performance that ties it all up together.
12 Verses from the Marlinespike Chantey
- A rope finds it ironic when you tie it up
A boat is both particle and wave
A wave is as well
- Enough ripples in one place create a pond
or a frog
Liquid: both consonant and pond
- There’s a kind of anchor that is unanchored and is rope only
Every rope is fractal
The bos’n fractal also, though no-one really knows what they do
- True or fractal:
free-range vowel on the open sea
- What’s blue is the boat not the waves
What ripples is the brain at the end of its rope
an anchor in a corral of spine
- Alphabet is rope or wave but not boson
The boat handmaid to the text
for what the hand made the tongue rudders
- A language of knots
An alphabet of waves
An ocean of ropes
- The boat floats on an epic of words
ripples on the brain slivered by fins
- In the ocean of mirror
bos`n is captain
night a secret script
a sitcom watched by
the lowest-common denominator of tides
- Sky is an anchor for
the blue prow of day
a bird a wave made air
- A knot is a joke told by the rope to itself
funny until it unwinds
saying, I’m afraid not
- A rope in a mirror unties itself
Water in a mirror unties itself
Ocean is sky
