Marthe ReedTwo Sisters 1 dugong and the moon (sisters), two. lily roots and wild lotus, sisters. dugong and moon digging. fruit. lily and wild sisters. two moons, digging. lotus, lotus fruit and dugong. wild sisters and the moon. knee-deep in green, green stems. water. lily sisters, two dugongs adrift in the moon (water) two women (sisters). gather lily roots and lotus (wild lotus), a game. lilies and lotus. where a game (she) looses them, lotus. abandoning day. tossed into the sky (sky). sister game: lily and lotus fruit. a game - evening star, evening rises (copper body). moon's. gold and fat. moon follow lotus into night 2 thin, thin moon. one (sister) thins, grows thin. in the sky like lotus, a game. lotus sister (night) sister. moon wanes, looses herself becomes. (moon) mere bones. moon. wild lotus moon looses her bones (lotus bones) into the sea. green sea and lotus stems. she (one). two sisters: dugong and the moon dugong, knee-deep in green, and the moon. dugong digs (lily sister) wild lilies. lily roots and wild lotus. (two) wild moons and lotus. eat. moon eats. dugong and moon. listless sea moon. grows fat (moon) and wide. lily root sea, sisters. wild moon and dugong, wide in a listless sea. sisters 3 red planet's twin (moon), but two sisters. dugong and moon. two (red and the moon) sisters. moon rises, looses herself. anew. red planet (abandoning day) abandon. grown round and gold moon floats, one floats in (air). inexorably drawn (pull of the other). floats. in evening (sky). one. one. dugong, wild lily sister (one) calls. a rhythm. lotus sister, adrift in green, green lotus stems and the sea. abandoned to green, gone wild. wild lotus calls flung from the sea. (wild lily calls and lotus), sky lotus. dug from the sea (wild lily sister) and flung (dugong's). mantras to the season of rain freefall let (go). goblack amid blue barrel rollblue freefall(fall) wheeling blue against blue blackblack cockatoos falling black amid blueon the edges of storm, keeningblue this (black)rolling, roaming kaleidoscopevoice freefall (2) 1 waves of black wings pressed against air (blue). neither sifting nor sorting. (ascension)/black. given to the air, upwards, falling up. to wander shaken, black voices keening (motion of an unpowered body), a wave. body. beauty in a gravitational field. pressed against (blue), kalos. felt but not seen. wheeling 2 loosed in a field. a wind shaped by voices, insensate, voices themselves. (a field) shaken and wandering. kalos. black amid blue, to be giddy. or suppress. an orbit, matrix of keening, half-tone (an ascending scale). in a field wandering. or wave. (voice) black against blue. an array of desires deployed. keening. 3 aperture of objection (ground), the impression blue makes moving away. tied to the ground. dizzying. theirs: sidereal form. carried on an ascending current of air (this). gliding, wheeling above the trees. encircled, encircling. an impression of blue, about an axis. theirs. black, black (cockatoos). carnaby's. kalos cockatoos. eidos vibrations of light restricted to one plane. freefall (3) in a field wandering symptomatic of a disturbance (any biological cycle) a curve described by a body. (mine) to make giddy: there is a perplexity to this dizzy to distraction fallen or lifted, a transference, blue against blue. black wings against kalos, theirs a luminous appearance (wheeling) where they enter the earth's atmosphere a disturbance: a wave (or fault): a discrete mechanics of displacement black against blue(mine) three: auto(auto)biography after Sight for Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino memory 1 It is not possible to order memory, or recall. Flowers on black. A woman gathers loose folds of her skirt in her arms, slides her bare feet into the water. "I will not." (A theory of precedence: what I do and what I intend) gives way. The thickness of air before the wind rises, carrying off the day's heat. She, wading in brilliant emotion. Cannot. Describe a precise chronology of events leading up to this. One. An order of memory. (Breath). Flowers on black. Luminous evening where there are birds. Black cockatoos gather on pine boughs next to the garden. In her arms, the thickness of memory. Birds on black. Luminous. Flowers wither before the dusk. memory 2 Recall flowers on a dark field? Object under dialectical suspicion. Dogs bark under cover of night. Random correspondences of sound and movement. (Desire). The exact pattern of light and dark described in its weaving. Article of apparel, garment. A means of clothing and revealing a woman's lower limbs. Under cover of flowers. (Yellow wattles and banksias), dialogic: hers mine. Field of light, painterly neglect. Flowers a temporary dissonance. A dress. Gift to which I could not reply, the precise shape of silence. (She) will not argue over permission. An article of memory, its precise suspension. None of this has occurred. Will. memory 3 In the advent of an unrecorded past, musical notation suffices. (Hers). I am unaware of any other. Article of emotion. "where there are birds," where the tracery of garden vines clings to garden walls. Neither denial nor recollection. She (she). The flowers once gathered suffice. I am unaware of the words spoken. Diminished. Luminous. Musical notion (dusk). In the advent of memory, the thickness of memory, the movement of water as bared feet push their way into it. Tautness of skin over flesh. (Breath) gives way. In way of inventing a past. In the absence of any other. An article of luminous emotion. Sufficient. Bared feet form a tracery of ripples over the water. |