March 17, 2007

HOZHO*

 

 

no

         words

but in

        actions

 

reduce

compress

                        

 

present

             tense operations

                                      perform

bird’s eye

       view

 

of compost

composition

                                                

                                      not figure

                  against ground

 

likeness & unlikeness

 

pigment ground

              electrical currents

a basis for

         belief in

 

the collapse of

                        meaning

 

into the intimate & the vast

 

 

(* the Navajo word for “beauty”, balance, harmony - & the effort towards)

 

—Shin Yu Pai

previously published in !Tex! magazine

Posted by dwaber at March 17, 2007 01:21 PM