up north 5 part 6 - 1980 november  work & days: a lifetime journal project

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search for equations
vortex. a spinning, not necessarily cone
say original rotation of matter from which condensed and sorted, planets etc

so that the thought you have between you is more alive than the thought you may have apart. And the next week he is senile, he is anchored to phrases.

to keep alive a spirit
studies that communicate vigor
life of art mingled with the life of power
 
to make a more definite image than the less skilled can
 
the bright pattern of sunlight which the bathwater throws on the ceiling, the swirls in the film on my coffee I had watched for some years
 
can make something like the writing
stages or modes of -
an argument     toward more difficult apprehensions

some way to make the visual sound and vice versa

hang a little image in the frame
light write

counterenvironments

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language and experience

images - evocation

something about space perception

love needing to tell

those preoccupations currents given off

a way to translate sight sound and beyond - to ?

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5

Trying to sort the pale blue envelope.

100' of the stove swarm but already too late, sun moves so fast.

Very efficient trip to Valhalla, long across the fescue glossy field.

Gaudier Jerska was not new afterward, though energetic.

Burning books. McLuhan, Limbourg, Shakespeare, Eskimo, Tennyson's clear pictures, movie. The unreadability of the dirty brown commentary in most. Like a magnet to the clear pictures and also the direct personal: Stevens (de la Tour), Herbert in shock.

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simultaneous afterimage

spatiality is 'evoked'

durations ranked one above the other

a close, naked, natural way of speaking

a person describing to a blind one

eidola     copies     theory would be like sound - thing reproduces itself, hologram

after image is the balancing: ie the eraser

centre of the eye color and texture
periphery movement light and dark

Turner - the lines of force that shape the outer scene

the sensation of looking out
or in - whether outside converges toward me - it shines at
 
outer space - location without - marked distance
means of imagining the experience of space
ie it will feel like imagining
 
word is a momentary deity
 
I like the Dick the shepherd blows his nail because there's a real time behind it
inventory
 
beast of the sea
come and offer yourself in the dear early morning!
beast of the plain
come and offer yourself in the dear early morning!
 
the lands around my dwelling
are more beautiful
from the day
when it is given me to see
faces I have never seen before.
all is more beautiful,
all is more beautiful,
and life is thankfulness
these guests of mine
make my house grand.

Yeats using images but saying he spent his life clearing out of poetry every phrase written for the eye

beautiful Limbourg

In midst of talk about arts work creating sensibility thinking of the people for whom, and how it doesn't matter to them not being able to, what sensibility they use

Confusion, that the new is still being fitted into the old, rather than dropped.

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"That you write as though you were underneath the letters." [Val]

I honestly think that the great creators of our minds in this century are fallacious, including Einstein and all this testing of the universe which is proving him right.

the languages - any act

ethos - cave of your inner being
nomos - laws - appetite for your own kind

the blackness of being inside ourselves

Questioning if there's time to be - to let oneself be - Pound, stoned, drunk, scholarly, the doubted minds - is slightly - I mean faintly - answered by the sense that that's what simultaneity means (it's 'I' but them), the sense of a generosity.

    Then light air, under saplings,
the blue banded lake under aether,
    an oasis, the stones, the calm field,
the grass quiet,
    and passing the tree of the bough
The grey stone posts,
    and the stair of grey stone,
the passage clean-squared in granite:
    descending,
and I through this, and into the earth,
    patet terra,
entered the quiet air
    the new sky,
the light as after a sunset,
    and by their fountains, the heroes,
 
                            Canto XVI

"That you write as though you were underneath the letters. What you do is, ..." she feels out her words, "... it's behind thought, or before. The creativity. I'm teary."

That Persephone had a son, who killed by Titans, revived as Dionysus.

a manifestation of --- at the climax

Central to the rites is exactly an encounter with [in Greek characters] Persephonea.

Hermes moly             a wild garlic

Is it good for the crops, or bad?

'mediumistic properties' - did that color (of emotion) take on forms <interpretive of divine> order

to find out what is obscure

the shining of the dark, whore, Persephone

by instinct or insight
by unusual means

the 'conquest of Circe' ie not to be turned into a pig

birds for the mind

we can identify her by her eyes

writing which in Wagadu was the business of the women
that each downfall brought a beauty - 4 downfalls

It shined     out among it     a different reach of here     wind     I noticed     not at first     reversed     backing up     breath     light     current     brume     a homestead, never seen before, blue buildings in blue woods on blue hill     slightly skied     distant dots, not seen     but inferred in the intervening     full of mirrors     brightness distributed from, at, every blade     red brown some bushes fine with blue     the turned wind will be ice     sun     why is it size of the moon     wall fine fringed     out     of the grey wall     in it     under it     floated red     getting small under the     downarch of open color     o color

how     delicate     it could be in the air

long from the hips     she fingers on his shoulders, only there     and kissing, her breasts point toward him     he strokes down her spine     'til she settles     (held)     head sleeps on his sternum     he     reaches arms long down her thighs     pulls up and apart, knees to his ribs     hands on her waist     pushes her down, himself forward     her breasts leaving red tracks on his chest     the way they hang they are each other's only planet

she's sweet-cheeked like ----, someone, who? Eve on the ceiling

remembered the Indian gods though their feet are unnecessarily on the ground

through his life as Ezra Pound

but I will come out of this knowing no one
neither they me                                     (Canto XXXII)

Watching carefully. Last night at midnight excitement in the house because I'd said "Why would I want to go to heaven with people who won't help me. The people who help me are the people I see struggling." She said "Maybe you don't see in what way people do struggle."

Well I do see him struggle with men, socially, publicly swatting, shouting at her, venting into her, and at night, and she 'working' to learn to see Satan in her perception of his viciousness, so she moves like a sewer. The hands, clutch. Last night's dream of the women's bank, Maggie and other faces I liked to see, fine daycare room, Maggie's open smile. A very small church half removed, the other half pews in their places. Houses needing work, deep excavation into black dirt, three houses' places.

A medieval music workshop. On the way through the small streets looking for Luke, pass the singers, look closely at the fabric, and a woman's skin between her breasts.

"This is the only life you have to know me in!"

"It isn't so much that I want you to change as I want to know what's what." Watching eloquent formed sentences coming out.

One moment hands over her eyes, her mouth has another look, it looks like mine, is it thought.

The Mennonites infamous people, Enns, Martins, Konrads, Wiens. That's nothing. Any family would begin where - again.

The middle misery that won't say it wants help. What is it. I know that ratio, thinking how to do it, yes small courtesies for more efficient use. Freedom, last night was high and lighthearted as if a freedom had come, at the building site it sang, embarrassed, but see it through, I have de-cided     to follow     Je sus     no turning back     no turning     back. Does that mean Jesus is somewhere they don't know.

If you were -     if I were enclosed in doctrine I would be interesting.

I don't understand why -     suddenly interested: is it because it would be guaranteed then?

"The light that I know would shine through it." (She means C.S.Lewis.)

Some, sometimes prescient and clairvoyant, escape and thank their person supervisor the father, others are twenty years slowly dying in camps, in mines.

Even if there were no one who saw, would I see.

I want to leave them to     I don't believe it isn't cowardice but what's coward     not fighting for Cheryl or Don, is. And what about Luke. Luke. Looking for Luke, but not to go on in this family. To go on in that family and fight for all its quality survival.

"Women have been doing important things and you won't read them!"

"A man has several basic needs, the greatest being his need for admiration."

"I am working on other things."

Are the people who don't hang onto being saved     in any way     in some way -

Listening holding my breath to that growl, it comes a growl! V'daumte schveenerie. Ugly sound, still an ugly sound, I space back from it. It's unchecked. This is his money project, and he's willing to indulge his difficulty like that.

Sheeting the roof, later when it was cold, shingling. Liking to work. She and he fart. P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P

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She was masterful. She got me.

And what is it about Anna. (She got me.)

Useful because she rouses hardness

And that's what -

I'M GOING TO RING OFF NOW.     BYE BYE.

JoAnn. It's a conversation with a third person but I'm in under the table pressing her breast not intending to but watching myself then more betrayed brushing her knee. At another table she's saying anyone would feel sorry for me. I'm feeling that, but Luke arrives. It's a restaurant in London. He flops down casually. "Why didn't you get here until now?" "I'm like Carole who once went away and told her children she'd be home soon and wasn't back by morning." Speaking blasé. I want to love him. He's flirting with JoAnn. I see kneeling on the table in red dungarees, just the side buttons. He says people who wear things like that (the orange dungarees of 1972). This dream - the dungarees - a grey/black/white I knew when I looked at the dungarees.

Joann has my letter and felt it.

Luke came but he has a fever, hot face, spots. I look on his abdomen for more. a thick scar down the middle. Some operation. 3-ply.

My hair cut so recently when I brush it down is long gloss. Open the door. It's reporters worrying about beauty.

The rhumb wheels     that's how I think of overhead view     what would it look like from here     looks like this     the movie     then what's a movie     "it's a rectangle out of a"

to double the beginning [sketches] you dim the lights
then you have the rectangle and dim its light
then a dark image begins
it emerges slowly out of
 
if the light source is the camera
and what's it an image of     the field coagulating
dark - carragana - meeting (2x)
color floats in the dark
the lake beating
slightly inside the rectangle

If the light source is the camera

The fog and its [sketch] comes not methodically but a joke.

in which mostly it is white space

makyo

or all its beings were his children and that he needed no more than his bowl

                                    was a viable emptiness

    lost his life root

                                                                    so as to integrate

(combat)

                        insisted on staying in some

isolated hut

I would answer: in the trees fishes play, in the deep sea birds are flying

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13 Thursday

Building at Epps Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

Come home from town, stride in new boots. J-V package of writing.

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On the roof thinking of the gay mayor. After she'd come, the discussion. Is it her, could I think of another way to reply. Like telling the story, show her a picture of touching ---. But I don't want to. And the discussion as we do it, is what. Stick fighting.

Making the house, efficient action, the way we've done it helps him speak to direct, so it's possible to be one mind. And then his fury when she isn't doing it. But not able. What. In a fury how she slows him. Not seeing what she's doing. They're both not willing. Trying.

Not able to imagine.

And what I want most is not to be them though if I were, I wouldn't be. No she does, or

        she does.

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14

Workshop with J, J-V. Trobar, Dante. The long corridor dream.

Who is she.

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A flame under the wood in front of the east porch. I shout for her to bring the water bucket. Some animal is running in the land south of the house roaring. We don't know what but it's coming closer. Something makes me unlock the door. Small boys and dogs running very late. Their farm fathers with a grain truck to pick them up. They were hunting? Standing on the yard talking to them see the animal run northeast, a dark form at a distance. Is it a bull? Or a pig. No I see it's an elephant, another, and more, running with ears spread. We go back to the house. Two women in saris, with pans of food. The kitchen's downstairs on the right from the side door, I understand they are with the elephants, they say they're just fixing a picnic.

We say we'll join them. They welcome us only when we say we'll bring some food. The corridor. A corridor - is long, it's still this house though it looks nothing like it. go to wash, in the washroom, with the men, I say I like bathing like this with men in the same room, the elephant gypsies. Going upstairs into this room, meet or seem to meet people I've known in other times, there's Dee underneath me. Dee! Sitting next to one of the elephant men, washing, a good heat in the part of my back that's near him. It's a goodness of sex, not to be refused. He's bent over putting his finger slightly in my ass. J later comes with a thin girl. "I've been lying down with Martha." Who's sitting with her arms up around her knees. J and I looking at her. "She has electric breasts." I'm not worried, this is the arrangement that will make it possible for me and the elephant gypsy, for both of us in this long corridor's encounters.

Is it then we wake from the dream knowing the dreamed house is still there around us. I'm walking south. There was a fire that destroyed our house, rebuilt to this one, with three of the original rooms.

I'm wondering if we're in the future.

who are you         definite
how you look,     the stories
you hardly love though you desire
your body isn't deep under you
 
I climb on board eagerly, singing: orre, can
you hear me? Are you coming with?

roof squares, chess     whereas your fields are large

but that desire     eros     was most like kin

Dionysus clubfoot
limping in the paradae
 
my marrow, my make
magike techne     is

that maens         maenad     mainesthae to rave

a rave     sidepiece of wagon

variant of rathe, arriving in the early part of the year, hraeth, quick

orgia ergon
organize, organ
 
cwifer     brisk active nimble
the quivalence of vowels
 
call me the crooked iron / lame am I and mighty
 
hija de mi mismo y de mis hechos
 
always an atmosphere of earliest morning
 
that presenting the play in the middle of the street,
and by the light of day they burned luces, while in other
closed theatres they make use of the natural light

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16 Sunday

Am writing all day. My bright friends are all here and it's with them.

The brilliance with Helmer, and how Brigitte said it

h HELMER AND ELLIE AND BRIGETTE THE
END

Standing under moonlight, Helmer and I. She jumps in the truck, turns it on, turns on the headlights. He in the light, too, but his small head, white whiskers, blurred eye. The beauty of color. Cold. Whiteness around the half moon over the pickup. [2005]

The intense light on us. When he walked around into the truck, I was looking down the beam to the standing brown grass. Some clods. And the blue west. What's so lovely in this. Three lights in separate places. Separate.

Come inside back to the letter to C, and look on the back of Brigitte's typing. When he talked about the linx it began to shine, her beautiful little head. Putting in her earring, the delicacy, and how he built it with his "Put your legs apart ...." Well I had it before he came, from C. To the pickup like nearly fainting, so intense the pull back, but able to be graceful at the door, and when he said it it made me notice and try to remember his speech.

Writing: one starving person / shot / jailed.
I assume writing will come through.
But I can see myself also ready to leave for someplace.
If being can be made wonderfully interesting to everyone who is, will they in gratitude, aid.
That's enlightenment.

Exact memory.

The processes. First pattern. Teaching. Imagery. Senses. Would I die to learn something worth showing?

When they're shown and know where they are?

Don't know. Push. If they had that constant sense of how interesting it is to be, would there be something for them other than being artists. Astronomers. Doctors. Anything except better done.

Yes. But I have to find out about Ethiopia too.

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lynx a link     "You might have a lynx going by, he might go by those spruce, they're real tame."

"Put your legs apart. A little more. That would be the two poles. You'd put the trap there, and then you'd have some kind of a stick, with pricks, they don't' like to step on that, they won't step on it." "So they'd step over it into the trap?" "They'll step over it into the trap. I usually cover it with one of those men's kleenex taken apart, lay that over it, for the snow."

"What they say, I don't know if it's true, they say if a link goes by here, in three weeks he'll come by again, like he's got a -"

"Like he's got a circuit?"

" - a round, yuh a circuit."

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imago - entomology - unconscious picture of parent, persisting immature

transfluent

Egypcian     to Europe from India in 15th c

elephas     elephanos

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17

Happy working. 'Working.' The news was that these blue sheets are the new tales of navigation. And then that they're at the beginning, only that it's something to focus.

Began looking at J-V's fantasy including mine nastily. Enjoying the acid. (I need a sharper knife.) To the Three piece, and how excessive it is, though it gets cleaner by the end. What we've learned since then, but is it extending a perversion. Foundering in the erotic for so long. Seeing her having to, and is my freedom her, coming from her.

Typing the list of shots. It has something simple, if it could be in the form of a movie, how could it be read so the pictures would come. Some sound.

In the afternoon thinking of J, went to the rockpile with plastic sack for wood. A person walking this way on the opposite shore. Her? Her? Her? Or him? In that order the four I'm 'with.' Cold, didn't wait, is that a gun, it must have turned when I did, walking back, I see from the road.

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House with Judy and Paul, early morning out over the porch for wood to make fire.

No, earlier., looking at the upper field lying on the hillside, that's the one I always liked, thinking about being there through the winter, say to him, first think of saying to them, I should have thought of being a farmer, except for all the machinery there has to be.

Before that driving my car from the east place for the mail, tracks of an animal on the front seat, road's going to be a little greasy, carefully down the lane. At the corner my jelaba lying at the culvert, campers use it for warmth.

A crashed car, three cars in the ditches. I'm going slowly. A lot of steering. Whoever's on the left (I'm driving on the right) is telling me what's there. a white van stopped directly in front. I follow tracks around left over the edge of the ditch, very quickly thought that half mile or quarter like a wrecker's.

Olivia very pretty short hair curly, she and Don are together again. She's telling me how they went to one of their old favorite places and made a nest.

On the counter, canister with 3 sections in it, a blue pitcher, is this yours or mine? I'm thinking to pack them and take them home with me.

Then the broad apron porch of a house I'm living in with Judy and Paul, like the feeling of being up before sunrise getting wood for a root cellar "and for the harness," leather not to freeze?

The RCM policeman is back, seems he's serious, both of them. He tells how cadets of one force will die deliberately on the grave of another, it's like army, navy and marine, and then put their hand out of the grave with their card on it: that announces their return. There's a fine for doing it.

Seems a movie I'm watching, the boy is real, the girl's one of the returned, she's a nurse? And they haven't known each other long, they're at his home. she because of what she is can't stay still, goes for the vacuum cleaner, seems to have taken off her pants, is working in her underpants, but as she moves around goes over to kiss him for reassurance. Her pants seem to be there again either phantomly or in full material. She has scrubbed the plastic table cover but the mother sees it's been scrubbed with a superwax. It's shrunk or stiffened like heated plastic and can't be smoothed. Sequence of the girl in animation, overlays, or broken as cubist, transparent outlines melting from position to position.

Writing. That most of the work is for nothing.

The excitement thinking how it can be built. That's thinking of before the reading. And yesterday writing C knowing there was something wrong with it. That means: is the intoxication to find or loose something, but its machinery worthless, or is it, if part of it's worthless, all worthless. Is there a both.

What I know, writing J-V needed 3 drafts and 2 days? A scrap to J. But when I looked at it after what was for C, it talked out in a different voice, lower pitched. And J-V's Merced, Andy's fantasies, what's wrong with the tone that's right in Jane Eyre. It's a hunched posture. H.D. humble.

My problem the ending of images
So will the meeting be out in front or in the back room
An attention in which there's no choice
If you are not completely attentive at that moment of action, then the mechanism of building images
In that attention all the other images go away
If you have a problem you have no energy
If you remain with the problem, then in the problem, not beyond it, is the answer
Then you have energy to meet the next pain when it comes
Self-concern is my major image

an image in the place of an image

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18

Dreams noted.

Brilliant carpet stumbling to window.

Helmer stroking back his hair opposite George whose clear eyes. "But he smells you know."

Boys. And feeling pleased with them.

And got rid of large box, 5 small, 1 wheel, 1 large suitcase, 1 bamboo curtain, 1 orange bag, 1 blue sack, very large. [Jam's stuff]

Resistance to thought of her.

The suite from that time isn't easily bad, though it makes me cringe. There are rhythms in it I couldn't write carefully, the rhythms are wonderful, and do they say where my attention was: yes. What makes me cringe in metaphor is -. It's in the time of writing not the earlier and it seems to be part of the way of finding the sensation. The mistake is being satisfied with it? But the speed of recall. Speed of getting it back means carelessness has to be. Could anything but fucking have that intensity.

The way of halting to look at the thing, and the right word.

The cage of writing. The cage of rank. Having ranks on either side.

And why do I think I can get away from that in films. Because of the small category. But the cringing at past writing is something about writing? Or is the picture less known.

Why he had to learn the tradition.

Seems to be deciding that first time right isn't yet possible. But to hold out for it? By revising?

Rhythm. That it depends on rhythm being allowed in the first time and that the bigger all-body rhythms are what -

And her monocle? What moves is the magnified part of the bother's body.

Exactitudes and frozen. Or rhythms and inflations.

Obviously there are people in music with wide rhythms changing to every moment, and the perceptions exact. Mozart.

What I'm wondering is how it seems that having got this engaged with writing, as always was, I have to see it as far as I can make it. Obviously. But the other problems of content and the human -

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Lying in bed with you on a visit to your house, a gesture to communicate with any spirits there might be. Raise right arm, throw it back. Across the room on a table, the offering, a long rectangular glass disk, looks like cut out of a slab, something else on its right, and a couple of apples (not seen). You're displeased I didn't bring just what you wanted. I get up to go to the bathroom, walk into a room with Sheila inn the bed near the door and your mother I'm surprised in another bed to the left.

The bathroom joined to your parents' bedroom has the toilet full of his alcoholic diarrhea, 2 feet estimated, toilet paper stuck to the seat.

Bub's writing like mine, spaces, plants and stones.

A pink dress with long sleeves, shows my big hairy leg. Someone's written a poem with me in it, the men jump at it to see if it has line-beginning acrostic or what's it called - a technical eagerness.

An electric machine. The folks are going to bed, my friend is the quickest to ask for it. I think it must be some erotic thing like a vibrator. My friend's two friends. One of them looks just like my friend. I say how does it feel to be so much like her? "It's as if you were taken off her like a print." She jumps on a platform and talks about a political meeting her kind had.

The contraption is a long wire with Coke bottles strung on it and a hash pipe at the other end. My friend lights the pipe (now we're outside) with a sung call, two phrases. The first woman halfway along the line has a slight breath only, it's so concentrated, then the one at the end. they remark. My friend comes to my couch, takes my foot in her hand to run it through her hair, that's what she wants. I'm interested in how it will all change. The slightly wet kiss I get isn't to be followed, I'm wondering if the idea is that she wants to make love with me with the other two looking at how she can make me faint. I notice her sung call is being echoed from outside, long after she released it, comes back faintly twice, am I the only one who hears it. See a cantina at some distance, it seems it's a jukebox song coming from there, twilight.

The second lighting of the pipe. After it's been past the two they offer it to me. I accept a breath. Looking at the light on the goldy grass thinking, this is where I know, I'll still be here, and interested, thinking it may be an erotic wonder. Sitting on the grass in a black robe, with my hands inside it. The woman next to me, one of the two, asks if it's like I'm pregnant (not quite that). A thin baby, or a bag of groceries.

My friend says "Roll 'er over," hands and feet, rolled on the ground. Suddenly "That's it," a male voice. Look up shocked to a very large man in Turkish dress. Instantaneously know I've been sold and pull back my feet from the hands they're in, command the women "They're hurting." They're not but I want my shoes, Turkish, embroidered, off, in case I need to run or fight, and instantly on my feet.

Switches to narrative: "Six months later," about to be sold as a slave; it was accomplished.

Shock woke me.

Revising such beauties last night.

Before sleep, breathing, trying to watch breath. After a while suddenly found myself with temples electric, in the enlarged black space, seemed the devil's realm, that imagination of a head and face, what's the word, makyo, stand firm and pass through.

Did it to leave the trash memories I was in.

Going into hash.

Similarity or equivalence structures
Free association tests
Metonymic     hut, thatch, poverty
Serious writer struggling to lead oneself to the aphasia
Sentences conceived as elliptical sequences to - uttered or imagined
Intolerance of redundant naming, seems to him redundant
There is a vigor in Cocteau

catamnesis history of a patient after recovery!

according at

discussion of what can be said     written     pictured

Rapidly through moonlight down the lane. Moon circled, white cloud in the centre, brown, orange, could see it as purple and then blue - turquoise - green, yellow, orange - fuzzes out.

Strides, frost on the grass, still where I know, and then, willing, frost still, on the path and the grass next to it, but the path is sloping north and up through the pasture to her house, whose like I see under trees.

And a fire to the side, she's with it, sparks zag up and fade, anguish in the solar plexus, she's beyond the flame, tall, poking with a stick, now I'm nearer, on the flat, see her eyes flash, this isn't the calm one, whips the stick up, and then down, red curve runs up and down, its tail dying as its head flies down.

She throws the stick onto the fire. "Walk with me." Puts her hands into her old windbreaker without inviting me more, strides toward the cliff path. I'm with her. the path runs northeast. We're sideways to the moon and high above land and sea, trees on the left. It's that ice glitter and being nearly, from here, alone with the oval moon round stone. Walk fast. Some breath left in our track. Sheep trail ends, grass, now we're side by side. She straightens her arms horizontal from the shoulders, walks springing from heel to metatarsal, rips off her jacket, stamps, throws the jacket down, stands and stamps, HOW-OO-OO-OO, coyote. Stamps, snaps her head back, slaps her hands against her thighs, hard, I've joined her stamping.

Old bones ugly naked bones, snap stomp, up the legs, liven the legs, up to the knees, send up impact, fill them up, makes voice come, throat feels the scrape of the yells, can't yell the long yells I want, holding it back to short ones. E-E-E-E. It may travel a long way in this thin light.

Ah. It ends.

Walk home slower. Faces through breath set ahead. Now I can look at her. White curls. Eyebrows not white: dark and straight. Big nose. Big nose bellower. What'll she say. The last little slope. Run it. Oh yellow windows. Fire down to red sticks, transparent. She throws the door knob, kicks her feet, one then other, on the side of the stoop. Leaps in after me. Leaves the door open. Throws jacket on the floor under the coat hooks, bangs stove lid and firewood, moves the kettle to where it brums.

Oh. Mirium. No name. Closes the door, first looks out it. Blue. Orange. Oh no name. Sit. At the table. Cloth. No. Wood. Cup. Two clacks, a clink. Pours. Clinking scrapes.

Now she'll look.

How am I?

Where've you been.

Up there, 'working.'

What're you waiting for.

Oh. Her. Get away from her. Something with a roar in it.

No roar there?

Oh her. Small. Tight. Observations. Remarkable. Perceptions, very. Sensitive. Admirable. Precocious. Fingertip.

Muscle?

Mine. Bigger swing. Underfoot, push. Able. Course. Child, free, saying, sweet.

Sweet.

Sweet. Isn't one of the men, showing off, rank. Oh sweet so I can be.

Ah. Work?

That's it. Has to be, rank, wants to be, sweet. Shouldbe shouldbe good. Wants to be wants to be     ahh     pretty. Had to leave pretty. But where's warm. Oh. Where's. I love you little baby. 'Protects her spirituality.'

And then?

She's full every day and child and friend, it's from the centre, not forced. Hardly anyone does it right.

No. And you?

She slams her heels down. Ha. There's no flying away. No piercing through. No calm old lady. I'm here. No poetry no music no religion no lover no discovery. Here. Stone melting out of my teeth. Not magic returned. No erotic. Time. Force it. Find it. Make it. None of these ways. Other. Blamed. Stranged.

Shrink it.

But surge! Has to be - . How.

Oh, surge, that's body, cliffs, diving, fast, brighter blood, but real, violence, expert.

And?

And?

Go along noticing? Not fright? Single?

Meantime, make up something, yuh, a turn nobody saw.

Game?

Job. Money, a jump. And get him.

Yuh. And that, if it tests? If.

Slurp.

Slurp.

Clank. Clank.

Now.

Don't go home.

No.

What.

Game. [rhyming associations]

What'd you learn.

The machine rhymes.

Is that a job.

Releasing?

Easing. It's what happens if you don't have another.

Games to senile?

Jobs for anyone who doesn't sense -

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[daily record]

20 Thursday

[journal]

Kid in Tony's [Tony Tiller] photograph. Yeah something to keep them that way. "He had such fire and I never saw him again." The eye-boy's little body looking at the elders [went with Tony to Grande Prairie to see The tin drum]. Tiny people in uniforms.

Leaving on Sunday. Looking through the trees to the house: thrilled that I might, or not, see it again. A future moment come.

The craft of the film's lights and angles.

Who knows so much.

He killed practically, and against it the young man in check shirt pink cheeks clear eyes who loved me though I was not easy to love, because Jesus does. It was for speaking annoyed I talked to him. It's to return an attack. Not only his. Could anything convince me. It's as if Jesus church is the devil and the nature of me is puzzlement. Have they had some shock they don't say. The certainty of the ones who've killed to survive? One of the devils. Tony hasn't a whole brain to help him. Who does. Instants. If I don't have a whole brain, then how can -.

It's crucial but no sight through, don't know. In that way, don't know. But fight more openly to learn what's around.

Listening to Tony's salvations having to oppose but riding into enthusiasm began.

21

2:45 Sun at _ degrees

Antisun empty powerful definition of land line.

Yellow glare through makes green.

White strongest W

Single long flat (c)raft somewhat perspectived row. Their west sweetness of color, blue up through mauve to what's called white, it's pink with something I can't focus - is it opacity brown or grey. SW-S piles ridges couldn't be seen.

Overhead azure and alone in it, smudges, or the eye or? Sense that seen, it might be scintillating dots, it might be full of round things: alone with molecules. Something with care and learning would be seen.

Behind me hiss tumult and from the side trees beating. (Is it sound black and white.) Being up there noiseless soundless, rectangle and open air.

Then bushes by their reds. To come closer around the red stems is a blueness. Walked round it to see if the blueness is in the bush, but it is around the bush. The grass stalks individually vibrating in front of the bush, the willow stems set as they are individual and spaced, vibrating.

S. Lowest edge is orange brown rather than, shadow a browner, the thicker piles exact white brilliant. Feeling back along the shapes, put memory of flying with it, they were those hard definite cumulus you could walk on, that was the elevation in them. Over sun and flying west away from the largest one, that was oversun, fast dark middled ones as if torn from the larger. The speed, mass, grey. And where the sun's, a brilliant hole slightly iridesced, ragged (iridios iris) square, then too brilliant.

W duller, clod and sheen, greyer, a brilliant smudge, not small, another sort from anything in the whole, it seemed more sentient, all one sunlight yellow white stretched (my?) ice wind on face. Whether the solider ones but moving fast, are carried by an even stream, (whether) I can't from them, see the even stream.

4:00 Azimuth paler, NE, E, shine's more toward the redbrown, very pale orange, small clods denser pink.

SE, S thick, underside many blues pale, dark, mauve, something like a turned field, rounded furrows. Upper shines pink.

SW but this side sol, very distant slit break into pale green, singleship dives through. And why the isles of the blest, because they're seen "in the Western Ocean."

4:30 in the pink clouds are blue. Toward sun streaks down. They're chalky, Michelangelo what was his red chalk, quick streak, maybe snow. Just before sunset on the ice white diagonals at different angles. All in one place run same way, it seemed, toward centre.

5:00 blue pushing pink, both fading, clouds are pale white but is so pale white. Why can't I tell if it's blue or pink. It's white but. Moon's due, watching high NE.

Can you go into the streak like seeing the movie over tracks, and feel changes in speed (with) density.

Recovering the sense of learning something that belongs here. And what's already been done - and here, I'm then, as with no difference.

Missed its first. It's half with a bar. Oranger than I saw, the features. Must've been 5:12. It's surrounded by darkness that gives it the intense edge.

Takes off at an angle, less than 45? And is it one moon height per 5 min, and is the speed from here, close to minute hand's. Ie just subvisible.

-

"at your best"

First visit from Aphrodite - was it - her black lace on skin, breasts, from twilight and twigs, red, rose, I didn't know vagina, must have been underwater air, I can see the lane toward willow bush, from the hill, down, shore ridge, cuddled in the ditch grass thinking him, he steals down the hill, eyes say hello as they do now, Aphrodite was the feel I made up a body for, it's here today. "Gazed at the moon as at a lover," I can't take my eyes off it. Genevieve white wave.

Foam born     schaum    

I would say: light and the ocean of specks     specca

Persephone's raunchier     It isn't metaphor, it's really the ocean.

The number of women's names that mean fair or white

Genevieve, Guinevere - white wave

Helen - light, torch Gk

Penelope weaver. Ho I suddenly understood the suitors.

Rhoda rose

Germanic elf names

Kenneth handsome

Paul little

-

Trusting that what seems most deeply right, is right.

She thinks a mortal given time can make a story. This is what I am. Built forward.

Luke.
A tension to improve

Transilience. Leaping or passing abruptly from one thing or condition to another

LG belongs with the Beaver practices
Carmichael and Kofka
Perhaps not being able to come back
How to push at the not known

22

4:30

Had been packing and didn't want to go out and look

Without clouds or wind but cold

East's pink, south's orange, both go up to yellow

The blue's rise has me at fulcrum [sketch]

Those are the tangents to the hypothesis

Whatsit whatsit like

The material     opal glass     opaline milking glass

Watching a little one dissolve     and again etc.

The material. A cloud's corner leaves.

So you can know where it is and then only color. The blue could rise.

The way Einstein projected himself.

-

okeanus rhus his stream encompassing the earth

What if it is we who move forward
It is set there     a known tape     unwound
rewound, again     it's 'in' time
but slow     slow enough for
experimental
 
regular, periodic motion relative to one another
sifting: the sense of having to sift: having to work to see: refusing and accepting     that's now but
uses of ideas of time, can
 
the work of theoria
physicist: because it's the one who works with the sense of existence
a theory isn't for use but for contact?
novelist working with a whole sense of how it works
works with knowledge and unknown known
to make contact with
connect: that's the little enclosure

Setting out on the flat wiring diagram

Map and coastal navigation

How's the map used

It's only by map there is sequence - as to why it's unthinkable - there was a real past I can't get to, but approximately recall, there will be a real future I can't see, which I can try to predict.

If I work to predict future I'll have a more accurate sense of past.

new tales of navigation     physics what is

Someone organizes everything known from - I was going to write - the view - alternately with the map - that's sequency and simultaneity.


 

volume 6


up north volume 5: 1980 june-november
work & days: a lifetime journal project