in Baudrillard's terms, too:

Any created object, visual or analytic, conceptual or photographic, has to condense all the dimensions of the game into a single one: the allegorical, the representative, the agonal, the random, and the vertiginous.
Recomposing the spectrum.
A work, an object, a piece of architecture, a photograph, but equally a crime or event, must be the allegory of something, be a challenge to someone, bring chance into play, and produce vertigo.

"Get the Picture" #5

THINK

         (for Leary)

Each color is no what like

the eye itself is, but

you get stirred by it

and explain what shakes you

with words until one day

you feel the eye as ball

and muscled lens the light

hits you thru, and you think

physical but not at all too.

"Get the Picture" #4

INSTANT

         (for Sherri)

The distance we measure as we chant,

“one, 1000, two, 1000, …” and wait

is in our heads. The boom

comes from the flash, we say;

it just takes longer.

But when time takes us into parsing bits,

it’s as if we miss the elegance

of two moments: one, of light

pink-edged and brighter-than-white at core;

the other, a ripplingly sundered instant

in which anyone is moved to feel

the air is more than solid.

"Get the Picture" #3

HANDLE

         (for Kaline)

“Tyger” waits in the shadow

a word casts behind a thing

brought to you by baseball,

cartoons, and cereal boxes;

its disembodied head

pounces, growls, and pronounces its name--

that handle our lives provide

that holds that shape inside.

Ciaran's new dimension: "Makes the Sound"

Whilst I have been laboring in the poetic dimension of the relations between thought and image, worded or shown, my 2-1/2-yr-old grandson Ciaran has developed work in the dimension between writing and sounds. His most recent reading suggests a new path for further experimentation in this direction. Imagine a whole long work read aloud using Ciaran's letter-by-letter approach after you watch this short video of his performance called "Makes the Sound":

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