Sonnets of the cirrocumulus, occulted script of the winds. -Hans Jürgen von der Wense (tr. Kristofer Minta & Herbert Pföstl)

and afterwards, only green fern. Kenji Miyazawa, tr. Gary Snyder

How Writing Comes Like bird’s down on my window pane, in winter. -after René Char & Mark Hutchinson

so dark only the light was visible. -Gustaf Sobin, "All Octaves Simultaneous"

The truth of the matter is this: that man lives in a fire of water and will live eternally in the first taste. -Robert Kelly (from a letter Kelly wrote to Stan Brakage & was the inspiration for Stan's film 'Fire of Waters')

it's the beloved, within us, that becomes the poem. -Gustaf Sobin, "Making the Mirror"

The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm - Stan Brakhage youtu.be/raN7T2QPhak?si… via YouTube

The Ascent | DRAMA | FULL MOVIE youtu.be/v21lQ449T3Y?si… via YouTube

arriving from far / small things by ⁦Charlie Ulyatt⁩ / thank you, charlie!🙏

late afternoon, Kochi

(bits of A.K. Ramanujan) and even as I add, I lose, decompose into my elements, … caterpillar on a leaf, eating, being eaten. … ‘If you think you see nothing on a tree, then its a chameleon you see.’

Hilma af Klint, “Parsifal Grupp I, No. 1,” 1916

arriving Mattancherry on the ferry

William Blake an unfortunate lunatic, whose personal inoffensiveness secures him from confinement. -Robert Hunt, 1809

The Prophets Isaac and Ezekiel dined with me. -William Blake

⊖︎ | ⎊︎ ◦︎ ◬ Illustration from Opus mago-cabalisticum et theologicum - Georg von Welling [1719]

returning from Kochi, we pass six, maybe seven black-headed ibises in a field at midday!

(Blake’s Joy) I have Mental Joy & Mental Health And Mental Friends & Mental wealth, I’ve a Wife I love & that loves me, I’ve all But Riches Bodily.

Black-headed ibises stand in a field below slate-blue & gray massive clouds tips of gold & green grasses rise from a shallow pond before the road curves & crosses a narrow canal