So I'll just say in this section, one of the things
that it deals with is the idea of tautology and contradiction.
Tautology is stating something obvious, so for that I--
you'll hear the phrase the rain is wet
or the rain is wet as rain, and contradiction
was the rain is dry.
A set of propositions.
If one is awake in a house where a certain hand extends
its open palm across a kitchen table in the midst of argument.
And if there is a table on which a scribbled note might
read on one day, "see you later," on another,
"see you soon."
If one repeats each morning a gesture pulling
comb through hair, drinking coffee from the same blue cup,
then one might say that one is loved and one
lives in the house.
If love emits from the gesture of an empty palm
upturned on a table in the midst of argument.
If outside there is a Willow in which there can be nests then
that same tree emits both branch and bird.
As from a house, there follow cups and hands and combs.
To say the words, "emit a time" is to say that days will pass.
And that one wakes up each morning from tangled nests
asleep.
As if from the character of sleep
or the slab or sun that moves across the sill,
one might infer the structure of a house, its wooden beams.
And the internal relations of the ones who live in it,
and the fact that they are living there,
and that there is a house.
And I'm just going to read two more.
So one of the things that happens in this section
is a lot of logical notation, and equations with variables.
And so those have been really fun to translate into poetry,
I have to say.
So this is called, "A Bracketed Expression."
And the expression is A-X-O-X. Person fire mouth of fire.
Person mouth of person, mouth of mouth of self.
This bracketed pressed from flicker.
The first a series of bodies, the second term of fire,
selected arbitrary, species of the third the
afterimage of the term.
What follows on the heels fire a series of fires.
A series of successive applications.
A surgery a prayer, a supplication.
A surgery, a prayer, a supplication.
A surgery, a prayer, a supplication, and so on.
A surgery to cancel out another surgery.
A prayer to cancel out another prayer, e.g.
there is negation.
For instance, not no time.
Not no time equals time.
This means that there is time.
Not no rain equals rain, this means
that there is rain as if all open hands are the result.