The Space of This Dialogue.Excerpts from a Work-in-Progress 12/31/98 I am not lyric any more I will not play the harp for your pleasure I will not make a joyful noise to you, neither will I lament for I know you drink lamentation lamentation, n a prayer expressing affliction or sorrow and requesting defense, retribution, or comfort. , too, like wine so I dully repeat you hurt me I hate you I pull my eyes away from the hills I will not praise you I will never love you again unless you ask me You have made everything beautiful after its kind the x molecule hooks the y molecule mountains rise with utmost gravity snow upon their shoulders a congress of crows circulates through the maize maize: see corn. that grows sheeny shee·ny 1 adj. Lustrous; glistening. Noun 1. sheeny - (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew hymie, kike, yid through a breezeless morning the ribbed leaf a spot of scarlet floats on the shivering shivering /shiv·er·ing/ (shiv´er-ing) 1. involuntary shaking of the body, as with cold. 2. a disease of horses, with trembling or quivering of various muscles. shivering see shiver, stringhalt. creek each single thing so excellent in form and action if by chance by excitement by intention you draw along a dappled dap·pled adj. Spotted; mottled. [Middle English, probably from Old Norse depill, spot, splash, diminutive of dapi, pool. path the wren to her nest, the fledglings cry, the tiger flows rhythmically toward the antelope, the butterfly beats stained-glass wings, the galaxies propagate prop·a·gate v. 1. To cause an organism to multiply or breed. 2. To breed offspring. 3. To transmit characteristics from one generation to another. 4. light in boundless curves past what exists as matter, as dust You have done enough, engineer how dare we ask you for justice 1/29/99 dialogue When you harmonize bitter enemies yet resentment is sure to linger. How can this be called good? Lao Tse I tried to invent new forms of holiness after the event at the mountain to console myself behold be·hold v. be·held , be·hold·ing, be·holds v.tr. 1. a. To perceive by the visual faculty; see: beheld a tiny figure in the distance. b. I put before you life and death therefore choose life I said but look at you look at the stiffness of your neck look at the desire of your heart to wreck everything dear one I believe someday we will show each other our bruises Bruises Definition Bruises, or ecchymoses, are a discoloration and tenderness of the skin or mucous membranes due to the leakage of blood from an injured blood vessel into the tissues. Pupura refers to bruising as the result of a disease condition. after this dialogue of the deaf but tell me, when it is written I found you in your blood, and I said, Live, who speaks to whom who forgives whom 1/31/99 It is written that when the temple was destroyed the shekhinah followed her people into exile, and that she remains in the world as the hidden one hidden one: when the temple fell when Jerusalem arose and fell and whenever we were persecuted and scattered by the nations, to follow us in pain and exile you folded wings patched coats dragged mattresses pans in peasant carts swam across hard seas, sick and homesick home·sick adj. Acutely longing for one's family or home. home  sick landed in the golden land they called you greenhorn greenhorn a raw, inexperienced person; especially a new cowboy. [Pop. Culture: Misc.] See : Inexperience you danced in cafes you went in the factory bargained pushcart goods ice shoes Hester Street put makeup on threw away wig and you learned new languages now you speak everything lady, but part of you is earth part of you is wounds part of you is words and part is smoke because whoever was burned over there, you were burned you died forever with the sheep whoever survived, you speak in our tongues open your wings say what we are do not confuse us with the sanhedrin of the loud speakers who have no ear for your voice but we who thirst for your new instructions, source of life come into our thoughts our mouth. Speak to us O oice of the beloved help us say what we are say what we are to do |
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