—for & after Anselm Kiefer
∼
(what is important is that history be
silent (for a moment
(we call this attention
(it is one function of Art
∼
(stippled vesicle (rucked plexure
(a new Latin, vantage supplies
its architect (to the eye: not
(inaudible
(the shuffling of chairs
∼
(record the armature
(colonial I mean
(let the animals please stop talking
∼
(the video repeats itself
(we take inventory after the fire
(settle the horizon
(immigration particle
∼
(we are made uncomfortable
when the figures behind the masks
refuse to smile,
there are only so many
memories (inside the earth
(lithosphere
(extravagance
(airlifted, as horses have been
∼
(vision’s reconstructive delta
(nobody is watching
(rendered (—vowel shift
(or: as wax into fruit
∼
(demotic corollary: traffic surge,
the figure in the carpet
(traces of crushed myrtle
(∴ who is, is not invited
∼
(tracks any lit space, any brightness
(the eye
(in mortal groove
∼
(starlight as mixed media
(a grid is established not so
much
(geometry (as metric
∼
(sounds of encroaching weather
∼
(follow these instructions
to assist the vertical
(electrical (ergo,
(sustained gradient
(O plenum
(O dirty, broken glass
∼
(the idea vs. the execution
of the idea
(isometric ((& to the dispersion
(not so much music as
“in time”
∼
(for love of some common
(palette (spectrum
(music answers form
with form’s own apposition
(not pure, no
∼
(the physical reflex is
to catch what’s thrown
(to you (at you
∼
(lightwell (power source
(the magics of fatherhood
∼
(igneous (a Helen
∼
(a memory of music
is not the same as music
(ladder in air
breaks
the proscenium arch
(beadwork (if you have to
“search” for the art
∼
nothing about the bombing
(was quite random
∼
(capsid (protein sheath
∼
(to be surrounded
by image (the ambient
retroception
(prismatic
(video (as explanation:
(a storm passes, we say
a storm
(passes, has passed
∼
(camera obscura (panopticon;
the eye is either
discursive unitary (or
multiple
(dilation (intention
(required: a separate & natural
history of the senses
∼
(no we do not have permission
(from the animals
∼
(to preach to the fire, vs.
(to preach in the fire
(to preach into the fire
∼
(the larger forms are all ghosts
∼
(if you hold the art up to one ear
you can hear
(Greek Latin French German
(those blind gyres
([compel them to come in]
∼
(furrows scored for paint &
municipal connections
(productive image-in-motion
∼
(rather in Philadelphia
a human workshop
(configured soundscape
(the wrecked aerials
(slow psalm ((in desuetude
∼
(that there is a minute chemical
life
behind photography
(protons (electrons neutrinos
& all smaller
(particles math imagines
(spinning in that shallow brace
(should not surprise us
∼
(song of [monster; teacher
(song of [Samson
(song of [trumpet; crucified;
(—maple
(on some smaller planet
∼
fane (flag or pennant; weather-
vane (your face, obscured
(model airplanes in rotation
∼
(for: we are not wingèd beings
&
((There is no original scar
∼