Saturday, August 2, 2025

Andrew Joron, A Sudden Pact, et al.

World-Spine
image by Daniel Y. Harris 

   


A SUDDEN PACT
 
           
           
Essential dent or
Incident
That making is to make of accident
 
            must be the truth, untranslated.
           
            Ex-
Act example: sunset’s
Red redistribution
            of what once was
 
Pled in place of place—
 
Violation
            of a long-dead ideal of land
            as hand of understanding.
 
The deal made, the spoken
Broken
 
By the next breath, & the next
            along the X-axis, as X-rayed
           
            world-spine
Of any word.
 
 
 
THOUGHTS TO NO END
 
 
1.     The location of any point on a line is fixed with respect to the line’s endpoints.
 
2.     The location of any point on an infinite line is indeterminable with respect to its place in the series.
 
3.     The line is unable to locate itself within itself.
 
4.     The infinite line’s points dance & leap among themselves, trading positions, ultimately coinciding.
 
5.     An infinite line can only be manifested within finitude as a single dimensionless point.
 
6.     That point is as close to nothing as something can be. Piercing in its presence.
 
 
 
A GREED
 
 
 
Each of us is in each of us, agreed?
—moral
            imperative, imperial dissolve—
 
            There was not always breathable air.
But once the flowers
            breathed out, we could breathe in.
 
There’s a name for that
Feeling
            before anything happens.
It’s thought.
 
 
 
AHEAD OF TIME
 
 
No peace in pieces.
 
All shards
            charades
            of the one & only thing.
 
            For matter, magnified, dissolves.
 
To see to seed—
            x is what
            peeks through the appearances.
 
Sorry, peaks­—
 
So will will err—
 
& in this well of air, blow
            the, a, the, a, the
 
Bell-sound of
Last belief.
 
 
 
NOT TO SELF
 
 
this stuff we’re made of has a mind of its own
 
I ask you
I ask you
 
if, then if, then if
 
new was once
the past tense of know
 
with one
over one unwon
 
using the over-
possessive pronoun, you sing
 
 
 
—Andrew Joron

Andrew Joron, A Sudden Pact, et al.

World-Spine image by Daniel Y. Harris       A SUDDEN PACT                           Essential dent or Incident That making is to make of ...