thyme to post

By Joan Guenther

if we are worded, a consequence of language (you of the noun humming bird perhaps or library, the verb churn or thrill, the adjective crepuscular, overwrought, or frangible, of the particle gratified, of, maybe, on, beneath, against, beside, any preposition, any nexus, of over, then, and of adverbs, the question of your manner, your time and place, your cause, or the degree to which you are utterly) okay then, again, Roget’s Thesaurus is more than a symptom; maybe he’s got the chronology wrong but any systematic consideration of illusion is important

now if the world were worded how would we know: yes we use hammers for nails, but Quartermain is interested in strange analogies:

rarity:Solid::flux:Liquifaction;

duck:Water::tongue:Land;

Land:Fluid::Cleavage:Texture

and how they’re strange as linear phenomena, as they are hollow as hierarchal, as aaron@thescream notices (Margaret asks byte:stanza::idea:muffin?)

puts a lot of pressure on the Natural Historian, the zoologist, the botanist, customs inspectors and zookeepers: is this fair?

in this way these poems put me in mind of Allan Briesmaster’s Interstellar, raise the same ethical issues, it’s birds or stars, (virtual or real) aboard, about, above, across, after, against, along, amid, among, around, as, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, besides, between, beyond, but, by, concerning, considering, despite, during, excepting, excluding, following, for, from, in, inside, into, like, minus, near, of, off, on, onto, opposite, outside, over, past, per, plus, regarding, round, save, since, than, through, to, toward, towards, under, underneath, unlike, until, up, upon, versus, via, with, within, or without Dasein: these nexuses cut apart. I could bellyache about this break for hours

just ignore it, your grief … and anxiety, I keep urging myself, don’t you

Note

Allan Briesmaster, poet and co-publisher with Quattro Books, appeared in the Spring 2008 Influency line-up, where he read from his book, Interstellar.—Eds.