from “Dauerwunder, a brief record of facts”

If I grew out of your (winter,  

thought, purse, chest cavity) 

would I, I would be plant-wise 

wiser for the spiny-edge & milk  

veins, this wonder’s so ancient  

so Mesopotamian, look at Miriam  

who covers her mouth when she  

laughs, look at Miriam who wears  

her dress like a casket 
 

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You have to use the telepathy machine: feelings as artifacts 

You have to use a channel (O) for an ancestor to pass through  

Yawn her up from the white space, in alphanumeric names  

their cambered arabic numerals, a semitic pneumatic, a numen:  

telepathy, yelling over the sea / machines, their quarrel, quarrel 
 

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/tɛləpæθi/: farflung feeling 
 

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emerge (trans., imp.): emerge the _________ out of the _________

 

information                         miracle                             sleep

sound                                    burning car                     throat

child                                      music                                possibility

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Hippocampus  controls short &  long memory,  named horse +

sea-monster  or  seahorse for its shape,  though  the  man who

described the anatomy first called it a silkworm, then changed

his  mind.  The  silkworm  eats  of  the  mulberry  leaves.  From

holes  in   its  jaws   the   silkworm  excretes  thread  in  circular

movements,  whirl-a-world, self-cocooning.  In  this  video,  the

brain lights up where a new memory forms.

 

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Telepathy Machine:                May lamb gone 

of its soft guts,                its life-force charged  

               into red communication: 

 

               —you have to use your farthest voice 

               —the world is such a _______ place