Par example (je ne suis pas jaloux)

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A Box

Prison, gate, or shelter, house or brain
Keeping objects safe or spirits well,
A space to hide from or to visit pain,
An open plain or time in which to dwell;

An ending place or start where nothing fell,
Allowing worlds to move outside your head
As well as visit, one another tell–
It waits until we're done, until we're dead.

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The Quarry

"It was important to preserve the body so that the ka can recognize it."

Osiris, master of a sunken age,
His tower's base obscured by deepening sands,
Sees eye and obelisk along the Thames
And time's great mind embark to other lands.
Three centuries pass, and folk here go to town.
In covered aisles they weigh, consider, choose;
A mighty stream divides it from the crown,
So daily acts of living find their use.
A race of children's fractures roughly set
In ashes from the fire of many wars
Through this slow cutting can be seen and met,
A final glancing blow in spirit fierce.
From vengeful genii eager to the end,
The people are the stones we must defend.

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Autumnal

Such orderly movement along a plane
As leaves rolling in a strong wind
I do not think I have seen.
The flies so slow now they only crawl
And no impulse to kill them remains.
The sun is setting further south
By thirty degrees from the grain mill.
There's a word for passing in zen–
I've forgotten it now, is it yugen?–
But fall is in limbo today, warm, splendid.

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Copyright 2006

Max Herman
The Genius 2000 Network
DVDs available now
www.geocities.com/genius-2000

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Comments

, Michael Szpakowski

Max
these are great -I particularly love 'Autumnal' -
shivers down the spine time - the studied informality
of it - beautiful!
michael

— Max Herman <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> +++
>
> A Box
>
> Prison, gate, or shelter, house or brain
> Keeping objects safe or spirits well,
> A space to hide from or to visit pain,
> An open plain or time in which to dwell;
>
> An ending place or start where nothing fell,
> Allowing worlds to move outside your head
> As well as visit, one another tell–
> It waits until we're done, until we're dead.
>
> +++
>
> The Quarry
>
> "It was important to preserve the body so that the
> ka can recognize it."
>
> Osiris, master of a sunken age,
> His tower's base obscured by deepening sands,
> Sees eye and obelisk along the Thames
> And time's great mind embark to other lands.
> Three centuries pass, and folk here go to town.
> In covered aisles they weigh, consider, choose;
> A mighty stream divides it from the crown,
> So daily acts of living find their use.
> A race of children's fractures roughly set
> In ashes from the fire of many wars
> Through this slow cutting can be seen and met,
> A final glancing blow in spirit fierce.
> From vengeful genii eager to the end,
> The people are the stones we must defend.
>
> +++
>
> Autumnal
>
> Such orderly movement along a plane
> As leaves rolling in a strong wind
> I do not think I have seen.
> The flies so slow now they only crawl
> And no impulse to kill them remains.
> The sun is setting further south
> By thirty degrees from the grain mill.
> There's a word for passing in zen–
> I've forgotten it now, is it yugen?–
> But fall is in limbo today, warm, splendid.
>
> +++
>
> Copyright 2006
>
> Max Herman
> The Genius 2000 Network
> DVDs available now
> www.geocities.com/genius-2000
>
> +++
>
>
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, Michael Szpakowski

My post just popped up & I read 'Autumnal' again.. it
is just *so great* -it has completely made my day :)
m.

— Michael Szpakowski <[email protected]> wrote:

> Max
> these are great -I particularly love 'Autumnal' -
> shivers down the spine time - the studied
> informality
> of it - beautiful!
> michael
>
> — Max Herman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > +++
> >
> > A Box
> >
> > Prison, gate, or shelter, house or brain
> > Keeping objects safe or spirits well,
> > A space to hide from or to visit pain,
> > An open plain or time in which to dwell;
> >
> > An ending place or start where nothing fell,
> > Allowing worlds to move outside your head
> > As well as visit, one another tell–
> > It waits until we're done, until we're dead.
> >
> > +++
> >
> > The Quarry
> >
> > "It was important to preserve the body so that the
> > ka can recognize it."
> >
> > Osiris, master of a sunken age,
> > His tower's base obscured by deepening sands,
> > Sees eye and obelisk along the Thames
> > And time's great mind embark to other lands.
> > Three centuries pass, and folk here go to town.
> > In covered aisles they weigh, consider, choose;
> > A mighty stream divides it from the crown,
> > So daily acts of living find their use.
> > A race of children's fractures roughly set
> > In ashes from the fire of many wars
> > Through this slow cutting can be seen and met,
> > A final glancing blow in spirit fierce.
> > From vengeful genii eager to the end,
> > The people are the stones we must defend.
> >
> > +++
> >
> > Autumnal
> >
> > Such orderly movement along a plane
> > As leaves rolling in a strong wind
> > I do not think I have seen.
> > The flies so slow now they only crawl
> > And no impulse to kill them remains.
> > The sun is setting further south
> > By thirty degrees from the grain mill.
> > There's a word for passing in zen–
> > I've forgotten it now, is it yugen?–
> > But fall is in limbo today, warm, splendid.
> >
> > +++
> >
> > Copyright 2006
> >
> > Max Herman
> > The Genius 2000 Network
> > DVDs available now
> > www.geocities.com/genius-2000
> >
> > +++
> >
> >
> > +
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, Max Herman

Very kind of you to say good sir!

>From: Michael Szpakowski <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: Michael Szpakowski <[email protected]>
>To: Max Herman <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Par example (je ne suis pas jaloux)
>Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:34:52 -0700 (PDT)
>
>My post just popped up & I read 'Autumnal' again.. it
>is just *so great* -it has completely made my day :)
>m.
>
>— Michael Szpakowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Max
> > these are great -I particularly love 'Autumnal' -
> > shivers down the spine time - the studied
> > informality
> > of it - beautiful!
> > michael
> >
> > — Max Herman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > +++
> > >
> > > A Box
> > >
> > > Prison, gate, or shelter, house or brain
> > > Keeping objects safe or spirits well,
> > > A space to hide from or to visit pain,
> > > An open plain or time in which to dwell;
> > >
> > > An ending place or start where nothing fell,
> > > Allowing worlds to move outside your head
> > > As well as visit, one another tell–
> > > It waits until we're done, until we're dead.
> > >
> > > +++
> > >
> > > The Quarry
> > >
> > > "It was important to preserve the body so that the
> > > ka can recognize it."
> > >
> > > Osiris, master of a sunken age,
> > > His tower's base obscured by deepening sands,
> > > Sees eye and obelisk along the Thames
> > > And time's great mind embark to other lands.
> > > Three centuries pass, and folk here go to town.
> > > In covered aisles they weigh, consider, choose;
> > > A mighty stream divides it from the crown,
> > > So daily acts of living find their use.
> > > A race of children's fractures roughly set
> > > In ashes from the fire of many wars
> > > Through this slow cutting can be seen and met,
> > > A final glancing blow in spirit fierce.
> > > From vengeful genii eager to the end,
> > > The people are the stones we must defend.
> > >
> > > +++
> > >
> > > Autumnal
> > >
> > > Such orderly movement along a plane
> > > As leaves rolling in a strong wind
> > > I do not think I have seen.
> > > The flies so slow now they only crawl
> > > And no impulse to kill them remains.
> > > The sun is setting further south
> > > By thirty degrees from the grain mill.
> > > There's a word for passing in zen–
> > > I've forgotten it now, is it yugen?–
> > > But fall is in limbo today, warm, splendid.
> > >
> > > +++
> > >
> > > Copyright 2006
> > >
> > > Max Herman
> > > The Genius 2000 Network
> > > DVDs available now
> > > www.geocities.com/genius-2000
> > >
> > > +++
> > >
> > >
> > > +
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