Loose Ends

I cannot post the last blog I wrote yet. So I will post everything but that.

I am thinking about garlic and mugwort again. I am thinking of bears and tigers. My favorite cosmogony--one of them, at least. I think the absence and presence of a tiger, a striped variable, has very much to do with the patience of a bear; the bear is not patient by nature. Not entirely, at least. It dreams through the winter months and wakes with mad hunger.

One the bear would not have had the patience, I think; but it would have tried forever, and perhaps have gotten very close. It is not certain; it is not known.

Two the bear would not have cared about garlic or mugwort at all. It would have taken its share of either at its leisure but ignored any schedule. It would not bother with the gods; it would be one.

Third this is How The History Goes; the bear did not have the patience. But something else is taken up. The bear ate as if every day it woke from three months of fervent dreaming; it could not but keep the schedule. It desired no form, but opposed none either, and so when transformation pressed, it did not resist. And then this world began.

We will never forget the way you slept, miss. Much obliged.

I drew a picture three days ago called Man with the Tuba Bones.
"I don't hear anything. Where does the sound come out?"
"Look in his eyes, girl."

How now, brown cow?

It isn't three so much as a third position
Third position: up near the body of the violin, thumb against a walnut fingers broken then bridged over four beams on a black highway The sound is muted, miffed, always wanting to collapse in a furious heap onto a low and open string. I hate third position. I love vibrato, on any instrument. It sounds good, sure--but it feels better than it sounds.

Hiding
caching (returned to at intervals)
preserving
burying
sectioning off
cauterizing
cut
quarantine



Holst, I like the way you think. And I don't just mean your planets.



Today, Thursday May 13th, will not be long enough to keep Friday, May 14th from happening much sooner than it should.