Changes in the air beyond our expectations
cutting bit by bit through this discovery
I don’t know anything about it
Each addition perfects the perceptible whole
Promontories placed to give rise to forms ways
and overall views
allowing repetition by mass and by sequence
overall view
exchanged in an instant7
7.
So watch as I repeat myself and never stop considering the minor details. I
keep track of the rumors and each thing thought. I imagine the opposite all the
time. The smallest doubt dispenses with sense and my reply.
Recently,
I’ve been going through Parisian author, photographer and artist Anne Parian’s Monospace, translated by Emma Ramadan
(Providence RI/Paris France: La Presse, 2015). As the back cover writes: “Monospace is a project driven by a
single question: ‘How can we garden space into existence?’” Composed as a
book-length lyric suite, Monospace
carves, cleans, contains and draws, exploring the minutae of space, writing out
the garden as the grand metaphor covering the physical act of cultivating a
garden, writing, and how essential the act of remembering is to identity and
being. The poem accumulates through short, nearly self-contained fragments,
composed in the smallest details. Robert Kroetsch may have asked, once, “How do
you grow a poet?” but Parian’s queries are more detailed, and metaphysical,
tying the meditation of gardening and the construction of that space to
something far deeper. As she writes: “without the support / of that which we /
carelessly remember [.]”
I watch it like that lifted up mechanically
like that whatever it is
a condensed image
look and see why
I might not have recognized it before
Note it for the end of July and forget it
before planting Acanthus
Sea holly
Abelias
perfection corrected from now on
refined you say in new classic connections
that I try to emphasize
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