poetry mixing desk

poetry mixing deskv.01

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Take a pen and draw a line. Suspend it. Relieve it of a destination. It might start to wiggle. To loop. Is it dancing?

Along the way, it makes a point.

This is one recipe for play.

Once we are conditioned, that is, sanded smooth by the gravitational pull of adulthood, play often requires permission. Permission to do what need not be done.

To find ourselves in suspension.

Of belief.
Of necessity.
Of sense.

To find ourselves in the presence.

Of leaves.
Of pomegranates.
Of mermaids.

Sense is contained in nonsense, not absent from it. If the dove is always white, let it grow yellow and wordy like a newspaper until it prints:

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ESTIMATE THE DAMAGE

These words appeared among the fragments when Brion Gysin, cutting paper with a razor blade atop newspapers he had laid down to protect the table, accidentally sliced through the pages underneath.

A wounded newspaper can speak of its own destruction.

Gysin played with cut-up words, much as Henri Matisse played with cut-out shapes, snipping into color to reveal a world of leaves, pomegranates, mermaids.

Gysin later wrote:

I can tell you nothing you do not know. I can show you nothing you have not seen. Whatever you do in your head bears the pre-recorded pattern of your head. Cut through that pattern and all patterns if you want something new.

If sense behaves anything like matter, nothing here has been created or destroyed. Only arranged and rearranged. Any shape can be found in a sheet of colored paper. To see a sheet of colored paper for all the shapes it may contain, play.

Whether realities are made or revealed is a matter of perspective.

Which is the case in point.

Point as in the purpose or location at which something becomes visible. Play has no point in the first sense precisely because it can bring us to a point in the second.

You can make sense with scissors. You can write and draw with them too.

Most of us need a pair.

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