Our worldlines looping
Bending nearly touching
Feeling your static charge

What was behind
Now before
All becoming

That was then
This is now
Safe distance

But our relative velocity
Dilates space(time)
Transforming perspective

Placing borders
Between you and me
Imaginary lines to defend

Here be red
Here be blue
Here be dead

Maps are simplifications
Reducing treacherous ground
To beginning middle destination

Here be mountains
Here be desert
Here be my enemy

Maps show relationships
Flattening sphere to plane
Using hyperbolae and scale

Here be me
Here be you
A curve connecting

Showing in two-dimensions
What we know or have been told
Exists as three and (many) more

Here be my world
Here be its edge
Here be dragons

VII.      2013

We are each cartographers
Crafting symbolic representations
Of perceived and received reality

Here be the road
Here be the river
Here be the ocean

Too much and too little
Knowledge and knowing
Interior and Exterior

Height and depth
Mother and father
Life and death

Christ and his cross
Black snake and white
Elijah and Salome

“The realm of love is light
The realm of forethinking is dark
Forethinking is singleness
Love is togetherness
Both need each other
Yet they kill one another
Since men do not know
That the conflict occurs inside
Themselves, they go mad and
One lays blame on the other.”

You and me
My right and my left
Yes and no

Each is real
Each is plural
Each is all

VI. December 25, Küsnacht Again

Elijah and Salome
Black snake and white
Christ and his cross

Finding myself and you
Knowing our inner selves
Considering our angular momentum
Rotational inertia velocity spin
Individual particles and – especially –

Our axis shared or separate

In our choosing becoming synaxis
For there is always connection
Choosing and acting together
For when subtext is denied
Consequences still abide

Sometimes called syntropy
When turning together in context
We conspire to unleash what is latent
Waiting for decision, lost until
Loosing our choosing.

What is possible
Where there is capacity
When real capability exists, we
Move madly from moment to moment
Criticality deriving from negative entropy

We exist in phase transitions
It is in the midst, in the middle
Between this and that where
Choices make not this nor that
But mysteriously create what’s new

“As day requires night and night requires day, so meaning
 Requires absurdity and absurdity requires meaning.
Day does not exist through itself, night does not exist through itself.
The reality that exists through itself is day and night.
So the reality is meaning and absurdity. Noon is a moment, midnight
Is a moment, morning comes from night, evening turns into night, but
Evening comes from the day and morning turns into day. So meaning
Is a moment and a transition from absurdity to absurdity, and
Absurdity only a moment and a transition from meaning to meaning.”

No, that’s entirely too Freudian
In context he claims ground as earth
Solid stable anchored, also related to humorous

Or even groin
Which Old English
Used as we use arch

Did his groin give way
His libido undone by icy cold feet
Confronting her florid clitoris

Out of context we cannot know if
Our ground is foundation and source or the
Same sound meaning polished sharpened crushed

Is my ground of being noun or verb
Elaboration of grund and grunt or of
Grinden maybe Greek κηραινειν (khrainein)

V.      December 12, 228 Seestrasse, Küsnacht

“I let myself drop
My ground actually gave way
Plunging down into black depths”

“There was an entrance to a dark cave
I waded knee deep through icy water
Before me a glowing red crystal.”

Minkowski’s plane is plotted
Against time and space
Expressed as curves that are
Time-like space-like light-like
Finding past present future and elsewhere.

Euclid’s plane is a set of points
Satisfying certain relationships
Expressed in terms of distance
And angle. Magnitude moving
In a definite direction.

Perception
Conception
Intuition
Comprehension
Apprehension

Frozen flooding
Killing frost
Cosmic cold
Sucking summer white
Eiswein and raisins remaining

The storm was pounding
   Flooding as if warring –
     Struggling within itself as
       A woman writhing
         Birthing lost innocence

IV.        October, On the Train to Schaffhausen

“I was suddenly overcome in broad daylight
By a vision: I saw a terrible flood…
I saw yellow waves, swimming rubble and
The death of countless thousands…
A sea of blood over the northern lands.”

Pythagorean imitation
Platonic participation
Aristotelian integration

Sensing unpredictability
Asynchronicity shock and surprise
Non-scientifically surmised

Coincidentally anticipating
Quantum and relative realities
Through acute replication of light

     “Successful mimesis is of significance…
     Because it fulfills man’s natural potential to
     Understand reality by reconstituting it
     In some of the materials over which he has
     Rational control.”

Still… forsaking object
For ideal form
Surface for superstructure

Stasis for motion
Composition for compassion
Composure for emotion

Color communicating
Not just what is sensed
But that remaining unseen

Seeking the intersection
Of subjective and objective
Cognition and feeling

Here radically new
There
Already succeeded

Sweet Matisse violently condemned
Braque barely beginning to see
Kandinsky’s single improvisation insufficient

Duchamp’s cubist derivative
Attracting acclaim as much
For his title as technique