quick inventory after coffee

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'scape, 2013, attention, bowl, chair, coffee, computer, cups, horizontal, legs, morning, phone, spoon, time, timelessness, up, white, wires, wood, work

 

 

 

                                quick inventory after coffee

                                rear legs of the wooden chair
                                splay gently outwards to form
                                the back held apart by three

                                curved braces before the edge
                                of the desk on which rests a
                                worn wooden tray slightly

                                overhanging; beyond the slats –
                                brief shadow – and plywood
                                edges stand two cups handle

                                facing 4:30, handle facing 8:00
                                horizontal and a white bowl,
                                spoon handle leaning upwards

                                at 9:00 there are wires from the
                                computer and phones but
                                that’ll be enough for now …

 

 

 

^{————w}(O)rmholes_________________________________|—–

attention wormhole: strange / tarnish
coffee wormhole: com- / mute
morning & white wormhole: stacked
time & wood wormhole: crease and score of silver-morning sky
work wormhole: nothing to write

 

the fingers

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1968, 2001, 2001: a Space Odyssey, 2012, 6*, bone, computer, evolution, film, fingers, life, lifetimes, mind, monolith

film: 2001: a Space Odyssey (1968); directed: Stanley Kubrick; actors: Keir Dullea

 

 

 

                                                   the fingers

                            that the ancestor touched and withdrew
                                                   and sniffed and worked over
                                      the monolith

                            that the leader closed around the bone
                                      to feel the length-weight
                                                                   and reach of shard and dust

                            that the astronaut let linger
                                      draped and tentative yet gloved and sealed
                                                   across the edge of the monolith

                            that the cosmonaut worked
                                                                   to release each level in turn
                                      and pressure of the computers mind

                            that the terminal human empty in survival and longlife
                                                   lifted failed and feeble to hold
                                      the floating monolith

                            were never balanced graceful or noble
                                                   as they felt the next right-angle
                                                   of mind

 

 

 

^{————w}(O)rmholes_________________________________|—–

1968 wormhole: 1968
film wormhole: There Will Be Blood (2007)
life wormhole: slipstream
lifetimes wormhole: strangers
mind wormhole: first dog / in the park