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The Compulsing Muse / The Water Canvas Still Life

muse,

*she/her has no master, only a mastery;

she, comes compulsing, a physical pounding,

a throbbing impervious resistant to logic or medicine,

which is the so very ever, the peculiar throbbing

of a principled particular “present participle,”*

*write of compulsing is her mocking suggestion.*

 

*a presence, punishing urging, pas de choix, obey,

submission; write freely but not free, compose or

decompose; is there a difference, no, not, and so ordered,

demand surrendered, how? how? this taking and giving,

can a single act dichotomy be so fulfilling and so emptying?*

 

 

<>

 

wake daily to water canvas, the waves, dabs of paint

protruding, irritating. provoking yet presented silenced,

repetitiously calming, motioned framed within the

white edged sand, the bound-surround of the living painting.

 

eyes alight, eyes delight, this daily emergence unto

a tapestry devoid of human interference suggests

a differentiating reality; now I understand the how of a

world’s imperfections constituting, tooting its own perfectionism.

 

this is not lake water; no single flat stone skipping nor

a concentric rippling to a slow death; this is seaward-

bound, an oceans subservient tributary, contributory,

a river, bay, sound - precursors to a vast atlantic infinity.

 

this is metaphor; this a still life of the perpetuation metamorphosis.

 

<>

 

*the muse exhales; as do I subsequently; what difference?

none, she replies to herself, tween painting artist and

verbalizing poet, the un-still life creation, always, always,

different, the essence of diversity in a singularity sameness*

 

 

                                                          

 

 

 

 

 

 

7:13 AM Thu Jul 29

2021

S. I. Sound

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Written by
nat-lipstadt
99 / M / NYC/Lippstadt/Kraków
Published
Jul 29, 2021
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Notes

when you are given the choice of no choice,

you write again and again of the same vision,

the same view that presents upon awakening.

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