\n
\n… You who are so good with words
\nAnd at keeping things vague
\nBecause I need some of that vagueness now
\nIt’s all come back too clearly
\nYes I loved you dearly….
\n<\/i>
\n— Joan Baez\n<\/p>\n
\nThere is space
\nBetween the word
\nAnd the thing\n<\/p>\n
\nNot because of lies
\nThose reverse tetragrammatons gnawing at reality
\nTrying to unmake the thing\n<\/p>\n
\nNor that other magic
\nIncantations
\nThat seek to move without being moved\n<\/p>\n
\nSpace is for breathing room
\nFreedom
\nYou want it too, don’t you?\n<\/p>\n
\nWe make a virtue out of incapacity
\nAnd wander around
\nIn a world just a little out of focus\n<\/p>\n
\nBut misunderstandings compound
\nAnd late or soon
\nWe lose the umbilical\n<\/p>\n
\nNot merely adrift
\nBut dying
\nUnable to breathe vacuum\n<\/p>\n
\nActually
\nThere are two spaces
\nYours and mine\n<\/p>\n
\nSpace between the word spoken
\nAnd the thing
\nAnd the word heard\n<\/p>\n
\nNo, there are three
\nBecause the word heard
\nIs not the word\n<\/p>\n
\nAnd really
\nIt’s getting
\nA bit ridiculous\n<\/p>\n
\nMaybe there are four
\nOr more
\nI don’t know\n<\/p>\n
\nMaybe the space of words
\nIs a Cantor dust
\nIn thing-space\n<\/p>\n
\n(Did you understand that?
\nI don’t think
\nIt matters\n<\/p>\n
\nIf it’s true
\nThe chances of understanding
\nAre infinitesimal anyway)\n<\/p>\n
\nMore words don’t help
\nBecause each word
\nHas its own burden of space\n<\/p>\n
\nAnd who will deliver me
\nFrom this empty
\nLifeless vacuum?\n<\/p>\n
\nCan the utterance become the thing?
\nReality become real?
\nThe word become flesh?\n<\/p>\n
\nOnly if the one
\nUttering the word
\nKnows exactly what he is doing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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