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READ: SEED (POETRY) BY J. BECK

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READ: SEED (POETRY) BY J.  BECK  FROM: APLOMB STUDIO ART https://aplombstudioart.wordpress.com/ (ALSO READ "WEED" & "MORALS & DOGMA")  Skip to conten Toggle Sidebar September 14, 2015 SEED By J.Beck 2014 SEED By J. Beck 2014 Dedicated to: House of Clay Church of the Flesh (Will these dry bones live?) Table of Contents: Sand: Ode to C. Sandburg God, I Am Not Art Said First Line Paper Cross’ Seed God Spoke No Oil Left Left Behind A Summer Sunday Puddle At the Lake Weed: Not Evil Ashland Cemetery Sea-Shell Fossils What Should Remain? Denver, R.I.P. Let Us Go Down Mother What If? We Are Not Sandy Time Sand: Ode to C. Sandburg Pile the bodies high from Baghdad to Afghanistan Shovel them under and let me work– I am the Sand; I cover all. And pile them high in Kabul And pile them high in Fallujah and Debecka Pass Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years and passengers ask the conductor What place is this? Where are we now? I am the Sand, Let me work....

UNDERSTANDING BUTOH "BECOMING OTHER" THE VISCOSITY OF THE SINKING THRESHOLD (W/ SOURCE)

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  UNDERSTANDING BUTOH "BECOMING OTHER" (SERIES) "THE VISCOSITY OF THE SINKING THRESHOLD" WRITTEN BY ARA FIG MMXXVI  "THE VISCOSITY OF THE SINKING THRESHOLD" The body does not enter the swamp; it accepts an invitation issued by the mud long before breath surrenders. In the grammar of absolute weight, the water is a heavy, opaque shroud smelling of decaying roots, tannin, and ancient silt. The white face paint—cracked like dry clay across the cheekbones—begins to bleed into the dark medium, dissolving the boundary between the skin and the mire. Every movement is calculated against resistance, treating the fluid not as a void to be swum through, but as a dense, solid architecture of cold pressure. This opening establishes the swamp as an active, almost sentient medium rather than a passive setting. The mud issues its invitation in advance; the water exerts itself as architecture.  The slow bleeding of the cracked white paint marks the first visible breach of ...