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2019, 6*, anger, animals, architecture, Bodhisattvacharyavatara, collapse, corner, dream, fireplace, lintel, moss, pediment, pillars, ruin, settlement, sound, stone, thought, trees, walls, weight, windows
“And anger it is that lays in ruins
every kind of mental goodness.”
crunch what have I stepped on
cracked, hollow, all about, what
is this square stone pediment
skewed and in the way, no, not
square, this moss has rounded
the corner, and here is a
pillar (where’s the arch, where’s
the other pillar) all concussed
and made of cone it seems,
it must have just collapsed
one day, couldn’t hold the weight,
maybe someone took the
other pillar, maybe the lintel
just shattered and got walked over;
but no walls here, just that
mound over there, I could
climb the side, there are steps, oh,
it was the fireplace, all that rubble
has filled the hearth and …
this was the back wall, here
is a corner of a window space,
but there are just trees to see
now, was it cleared here once,
did they keep animals milling
about, were they comfortable,
did they have dreams …?
a wistful from Bodhisattvacharyavatara VI, verse 7: “Encountering that which I fear or do not want, and obstructed or frustrated in obtaining what I want, these provide the fuels of discontent, of unhappiness, of irritation. They smoulder and then flare-up, spreading within me. I become built-up and headstrong with anger which eats away inside and will eventually consume me and the toxic world I have created for myself.” The title-quote is from “The Nectar of Mañjuśrī’s Speech”, a commentary to the Bodhisattvacharyavatara by Kunzang Palden.
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
architecture wormhole: La Route, Effet d’Hiver, 1872
dream wormhole: on facing the Have
sound wormhole: in turgid reflection
stone & trees wormhole: Cours La Reine, Rouen, 1890
thought wormhole: in deed
walls wormhole: Female Peasant Carding, 1875
windows wormhole: threshold to behold
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