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Sumasampalataya ako sa dakilang pagtuklas.
Sumasampalataya ako sa taong makatutuklas.
Sumasampalataya ako sa takot ng taong makatutuklas.
Sumasampalataya ako sa mukha niyang mamumuti,
sa kaniyang hilo, sa pamamawis ng kaniyang bibig.
Sumasampalataya ako sa pagsusunog ng kaniyang mga sipi,
susunugin hanggang maging abo,
susunugin maging ang huling piraso.
Sumasampalataya ako sa pagsambulat ng mga numero,
ikinakalat nang walang pagsisisi.
Sumasampalataya ako sa pagmamadali ng tao,
sa katumpakan ng kaniyang mga kilos,
sa malaya niyang pag-iisip.
Sumasampalataya ako sa pagwasak ng mga tapyas ng bato,
sa pagbuhos ng mga likido,
sa pagpawi ng mga rayos.
Nananalig akong mahinusay itong magtatapos,
na hindi pa huli ang lahat,
na magaganap ito na walang mga saksi.
Tiyak akong walang makaaalam ng nangyari,
hindi ang kabiyak, hindi ang dingding,
ni hindi ang ibong maaaring kumanta.
Sumasampalataya ako sa pagtangging makasangkot.
Sumasampalataya ako sa nasirang karera.
Sumasampalataya ako sa nasayang na mga taon ng trabaho.
Sumasampalataya ako sa lihim na dinala hanggang libing.
Para sa aki’y pumapailanglang itong mga salita lagpas sa mga batas
at hindi naghahangad na masuhayan ng mga totoong halimbawa.
Matibay ang aking pananalig, bulag ito at walang sandigan.
Mar 21, 2020
Peb 3, 2020
Hought
Not speaking for anyone else, but hunting’s listed in order of importance:
1. Real life
2. Mist
3. Campaign
4. GP tab
5. CTAs
6. Public
Was glad we adjusted to meteorite by chaining hard explores, so I poured stam in that direction. I don’t remember doing 5 and 6 since the merge. Campaign’s also limited to whatever I could fit between hard explores.
While I miss completing the easys, I’m happy with my list at the moment. If crowding the tab isn’t an issue, I suggest we post all our summons there (but take care to mention which are public/private along with other conditions).
I have Gehenna up the easy, by the way, but I didn’t know you had one active until today.
I don’t think this is being suggested, but for the record, I’m not boycotting anybody’s summons. All my love to the rest and the officers.
*
By the way, is there a limit to tab entries? I’ve hesitated GP-marking my summon as I fear taking up space and crowding out “legit” mist.
Gehenna’s down, by the way, for collect.
1. Real life
2. Mist
3. Campaign
4. GP tab
5. CTAs
6. Public
Was glad we adjusted to meteorite by chaining hard explores, so I poured stam in that direction. I don’t remember doing 5 and 6 since the merge. Campaign’s also limited to whatever I could fit between hard explores.
While I miss completing the easys, I’m happy with my list at the moment. If crowding the tab isn’t an issue, I suggest we post all our summons there (but take care to mention which are public/private along with other conditions).
I have Gehenna up the easy, by the way, but I didn’t know you had one active until today.
I don’t think this is being suggested, but for the record, I’m not boycotting anybody’s summons. All my love to the rest and the officers.
*
By the way, is there a limit to tab entries? I’ve hesitated GP-marking my summon as I fear taking up space and crowding out “legit” mist.
Gehenna’s down, by the way, for collect.
Okt 4, 2019
Self-naming and the third line of Notley’s “Poem”
St. Mark’s Place caught at night in hot summer,
Lonely from the beginning of time until now.
Tompkins Square Park would be midnight green but only hot.
I look through the screens from my 3rd floor apartment
As if I could see something.
Or as if the bricks and concrete were enough themselves
To be seen and found beautiful.
And who will know the desolation of St. Mark’s Place
With Alice Notley’s name forgotten and
This night never having been?
Poets.org
Not as distant as Guadalajara nor as threatening as Vesuvius. Not noisy like the former nor certain like the latter.
As urgent as? As focused as?
The Ghazal-type signature pines, and I return a moment to Corman. Differences truly between Corman and Notley, but I can’t place these as surely as I can a distinction between two of my children forced to a morning goodbye.
Lonely from the beginning of time until now.
Tompkins Square Park would be midnight green but only hot.
I look through the screens from my 3rd floor apartment
As if I could see something.
Or as if the bricks and concrete were enough themselves
To be seen and found beautiful.
And who will know the desolation of St. Mark’s Place
With Alice Notley’s name forgotten and
This night never having been?
*
Poets.org
*
Not as distant as Guadalajara nor as threatening as Vesuvius. Not noisy like the former nor certain like the latter.
As urgent as? As focused as?
The Ghazal-type signature pines, and I return a moment to Corman. Differences truly between Corman and Notley, but I can’t place these as surely as I can a distinction between two of my children forced to a morning goodbye.
Okt 3, 2019
On “jobs” in an Eigner poem
Headlights
in the sky
tail spot
on a cloud
there are
invisible beams
somebodies' jobs
steady wherever
Al Filreis shared this with his ModPo students. The caption read “Larry Eigner wrote this poem in late April 1972 in Swampscott, Mass.”
No need of the sources to partake of the wonder. As in the myth of Lamed Wufniks, maybe apprehension of a whole endangers its multiplicity. What if the poem is neither “we only have this much”? Where getting (or even getting to) any more (from “somebodies” “wherever”) dims everything.
in the sky
tail spot
on a cloud
there are
invisible beams
somebodies' jobs
steady wherever
*
Al Filreis shared this with his ModPo students. The caption read “Larry Eigner wrote this poem in late April 1972 in Swampscott, Mass.”
*
No need of the sources to partake of the wonder. As in the myth of Lamed Wufniks, maybe apprehension of a whole endangers its multiplicity. What if the poem is neither “we only have this much”? Where getting (or even getting to) any more (from “somebodies” “wherever”) dims everything.
May 5, 2019
May 4, 2019
Edipo
Garden remedies for father-in-law’s swollen foot:
a) kataka-taka leaves with hot compress
b) ginger ale
May 1, 2019
Orions
Kesa saluhin ang bitaw ni H.D. (“I know no light in the woods”) at sa halip na rebyuhin ang munting aklat ni Cledera. May bigat kasi ang kaliitan na sana na-gets. Na kailangan ng isa pa—at kalahati pa yata—para tapatan ang ruler. Bakit kasi hindi kalas-kalasin at ibudbod sa ibabaw ng ano mang nanghihingi ng sukat? Sabay tagos ng iyong titig. Hindi ka ba nasisiyaha’t nakatatagos ang titig? Wala pa tayo nito sa tinitingnan at pinagtatagusan. At wala man ding nakikipagtitigan. Ni wala pa sa mga ito, mga nagbabalat-sibuyas. Aba’y, wala ka pala.
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