Deadline & Dandelion: A poem.

 

Deadline & Dandelion

I was looking for direction, an answer: a word; it began with d.

Discussion, downturn, diffident.

700 thousand silver marks?

A room, papered in maps?

A suitcase, with words on it?

I packed the case, began the journey and arrived at the snow;

an avalanche.

I retreated; 

walked back through the seasons, the fall, the summer, the spring.  

Time is not a spiral after all; it is a pendulum swinging into 

winter over and over.

Deaden, dredged, double-dip.

I painted on my suitcase large words of resistance:

Desolation,

decenter,

defenestration,

deluge.

 

 

 

 

1100

 

Dear Skaters,

Today is day eleven hundred!  Doesn't time fly when you are having fun?  I have two films for you today to hopefully inspire you to 'lace up' as skaters like to say.  

Gone somewhere!

 

Square cats.

 

Dear Kitties,

All you cats are going to love this cube car; just love it!  It is your film of the day.  It fills me with joy and possibilities.  It came to me from a member of the intrepid Dodo staff.

sunlight

 

An installation of ideas.

 

Dear Like Minds,

These are images of an installation of ideas on slips of paper.  The ideas were thought of and recorded in a class I teach each Spring.  I never knew, when I first looked at Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs, that I would arrive at digging conceptual art; promoting it and assigning it even.  It grew on me, I guess, like moss and Absurdist literature. 

The way that ideas, and manifestations of ideas, circulate and fold out and in and recombine is really a beautiful thing.  I have mentioned it here before, and what is the word for it?  Happenstance?  Coincidence doesn't seem quite right.  The thesaurus offers 'concomitance,' 'concordance,' and 'lumping together.'  The first two are a little officious, and the last implies a lack of elegance.  Happenstance will have to do.

One thing that lumped together to manifest as this project are the Paul Thek Teaching Notes.  Here is a place you can read a little about them, and you can look at the notes, here.  Then you can answer them, make your own list of questions, or manifest some other happenstance entirely. 

Another list.

 

Dear To Do,

1.  Listen to this.

2.  Consider carefully these words.

3.  Assemble a group of photographs.

4.  Make a cake.

PS

Yes, I am sorry, you will have to register for a free account to read those words, but it won't take you that long.  If you end up extra time leftover, you can send your own condolence to insecurity!