[written & drawn as an opening to a creative collaboration w/Daniel Ari in some way, shape,

or form for a book of Daniel’s querons* & drawings/art/illustrations of 58 artists – titled ‘One Way to Ask” to be published later in 2014.] 

 

*a poetic form of his design, although this poem is not a queron

 

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We map our existence

with the oddest of things

And yet is it any surprise

really? We being the creatures

Of comforts, habits, all the controls

strung out barely discernible

Yet everywhere we go ~ handling

this, setting that just so,

Hot, hotter, quiet, quieter even still.

Beauty, fragrance, order, mess.

Taste, timing, listening ~ all experience

awaits and awaits, yet also

Passing us by, pondering us like

the creatures we are.

Experience having us, we are

possessed by that which dawns on us,

possessed in measure, great and small.

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