Saturday, February 24, 2024

Little song for big John

AN IDEA OF IMPROVISATION AS 

A FOUND SONNET IN ‘A CONVEX MIRROR’


“But what is this universe the [portrait] of 

As it veers in and out, back and forth, 

Refusing to surround us and still the only

Thing we can see? [Epiphany] once 

Tipped the scales but now is shadowed, invisible,

Though mysteriously present, around somewhere.

But we know it cannot be sandwiched 

Between two adjacent moments, that its windings 

Lead nowhere except to further tributaries 

And that these empty themselves into a vague 

Sense of something that can never be known 

Even though it seems likely that each of us 

Knows what it is and is capable of 

Communicating it to the other.”

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