First published in Unusual Work no. 37 (edited by Π.O.).
am i even listening if im deciding what to listen to
images have two sounds what sounds
when they’re worked on what sounds
when you see them
when i worked on i wrote what sounds into a chorus
when i read what sounds i hear what sounds
in my mouth
history is made up of sounds trillions
of temples shooshing fingertips
for example
which helps detach history making
it easier to move
through the day since I’m hearing this now and not
the intensity of what grief I gave
even though what happens
when what sounds alters
how what sounds is heard again
english
for some sirens
for others
if whats familiar is financed by whats
familiar
what sounds is soft pressure
grafting clay to pinch pots
any handle coincident of a wet kiss
how what sounds sounds
familiar duplicates violence duplicates
assumptions of use
for filmmakers opening on snow
climaxing in the desert
morocco is a dummy
lebanon tibet or other planet
they just convoy
glint down the mountain
what sounds while the image is worked on
sounds
a rubbed balloon full of gravel sounds over
snow impressed by snow
leopard
studio assistants slap gloves into a mic
over a bat wing flap
sounds when you see it
if i wrote what sounds into a chorus what sounds left out
if i wrote a love poem that says im surrounded
by reflective surfaces
make a list of what’s around you and deduce
love
anthropologists describe balinese
cockfights with similar intentions
what sounds over description what sounds
in the match
you lie like a pavement fissure away from me and shudder
in the light we surge and dim surge and dim
what sounds in love so precious it wounds itself
saying history is made up of sounds we rehearse
omitting saying
experience is interplay saying
what sounds curled you
what sounds now youre curled what did i
sound to curl you what sounds while i sounded what image
we worked on
what sounds we sounded while we worked
what sounds we rehearsed omitting
what sounds everywhere sounds that image into grief
and what sounds left out
and what sounds now what sounded is history
and what sounds to come except for everywhere the sound of kissing