(1)
It looks like
instead of “Scottish LIterature”
it has to be “anti-colonial studies”
or some such: fair enough—
if the narrative doesn’t fit,
fuck it then. let’s instead
have some kind of
discussion, let alone
a “colloquium”,
on the function of relative
spacing and relative articulat-
ion in, the place of address:
which is to say:-
the page itself.
(2)
down this way
following
the line
of breathing,
starting over
again and
again and again
it does not turn
without
that which
carries it
over (and over)
(3)
it’s too easy
saying
“the craft”
defines
thing-in-itself
unique
to current instance:
but how otherwise
assess
the given syntactic
the visual plane
the page
where pacing can be articulated
(4)
it seems that it’s always
the same setting out, the same
standing still in the one voice
looking at it:
hello again.
ears not chooned to listen
outside of the word,
to skate between
and away from the trampo-
line
and does it matter? maybe not:
let’s head off together in this
little soliloquoy:
play some music if you’re lucky—
if that’s who you are, today
(5)
the way of it
is not always forward:
it can sometimes
be less than that which you admire;
but being there, with it
or is it on it, who knows
eventually
the thing itself, is:
this the way
it occurs
(6)
why it should be this way
god only knows
if there was one—or many
whoever invented this position
this way of being
—living on the page
in a voice that nobody knows, nor
wants to know: who invented it,
who invented all this
this at least we do together
not
“the royal we” you know...
but
(7)
this is the way
I think we want it
to operate: not
crowding the page
as some larger font:
but using simply
that which seems
easiest on the eye,
having in mind
the relative possibilities
of particular spacing, hallmark
of that lowercase tradition
we long admire
(8)
turning salty
the way
the unknown
which way
turns
listening
partly
the waters
undivided
between
the self
beckoning
back again
(9)
various
the abstract
climbs down
reckoning
always never
the same, whenever
it lands itself
meaning taken
over, moving
over and out
(10)
turning around
and around
finding
the only
place left
the day
the page
another one
(11)
the day
closes
it comes
to its way
of
this being
the end