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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: HOOSH
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 09:52:07 -0500 (EST)
HOOSH http://www.alansondheim.org/hoosh.png http://www.alansondheim.org/hoosh.mp3 = Pruefer clarinet, made in Rhode Island, around 1940 About HOOSH: From the dust of koans, the whoosh whoosh answer of the clapping hand, that afternoon, an enormous whoosh heard for several minutes, white ibis nothing like a whoosh to give a kind of nervous quality to the whole whooshing at the speed of light towards death inherent in the calling-forth the same again at the self-same speed towards death inherent in the calling-forth moreover at the speed of light towards death inherent in the calling-forth nighthawk, the whoosh of the tailfeathers calling out to others of its shaking fingers, accurately whooshing, in a great backwards whoosh like wrong-way through a telescope after all! Whoosh whoosh (as my friend Mayakovsky once said to me), but existence's swoon is gone, snuggled down death's door swished to things and names Jwwwwooshloo explosin of air from whew! lungs, hungers in a great backwards whoosh like wrong-way through a telescope and big storm and a bus flips and no one is injured. A train swooshes down kindly to buses. The man's removed from the track and the train lovingly swings back, you start the life up down death's happy to name things and death's back you start the life up down, death's wooshed to things and names, come again?, weight zero, wooshed things names mosh woosh mooch moose and woosh woosh woosh an AMAZING ASTOUND!