Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0210060014120.17317-100000@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: to a Friend
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 00:14:26 -0400 (EDT)
to a Friend will then of these the fiery Furnace - turning to the left - turning to the right of us - beyond the grieving earth - above the earth - trembling so - the bowers breaking - great earth broken with the weight of bodies - i remember - i abjure you - you grow within me - i will name you with the names of the future - i will remember you with all the names of the past - here we are on the brink - the edge - we need your guidance - beyond and beneath the Furnace - within the heat of the Furnace - the convolutions of the marrow - great bone furrows - the great thinking - the greatness of the thought - will then of these the fiery Furnace - reduced, all of us, to silence and dismay - within the east the great light - within the west, the lips of dawn and dusk - our speech creating nothing - our speech words flayed into the dark - our performances poor, the theater smashed, the audience long since gone - the play a language of discomfort, unknown language, unspoken, lost - our characters your memory - you're there in every one of them, speaking to yourself through us, the great winds turning at the poles, the winds of the Furnace burning the equator, winds of ice, and everywhere an assumption, of these, of the great thinking, of the Furnace, of our abeyance, of death and trees, uprooted, and thinking branches, whole worlds of thought and ice === to a Friend a will Furnace then will of then these of the these fiery the Furnace fiery turning - - turning left the right turning us the beyond - grieving the earth earth above trembling trembling above so grieving bowers broken broken bowers breaking with with breaking great weight weight great bodies broken i abjure abjure i remember you you remember grow abjure within you me - name the names future future names all the past remember here the we edge edge we are - on we brink your your brink need on guidance brink and within beneath the heat beyond convolutions the marrow great bone - furrows the thinking the greatness the thought the reduced, to us, dismay dismay us, silence within east dismay light lips lips light west, dusk dusk west, dawn light our our speech speech creating words words creating nothing flayed flayed nothing into speech dark nothing performances smashed, smashed, performances poor, the theater long long theater since smashed, audience - gone poor, play of language unknown unknown language discomfort, unspoken, unspoken, discomfort, lost unknown language, - characters you're you're characters memory in in memory one you're there of them, in every our speaking us, yourself great through winds winds through poles, winds at to burning winds equator, ice, ice, equator, everywhere everywhere an an assumption, assumption, these, thinking, thinking, these, Furnace, of abeyance, abeyance, death trees, trees, death uprooted, thinking branches, worlds worlds branches, whole of ice ice ice ===