i'd like to follow along

behind a baby as we'd crawl

(imagine a basket of toys)

baby picks a truck

drives forward as it crawls

then drops it for another

and there's me

to gather them up

to put back in the basket

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We hope that each human

is brought to believe it :

give at least a lonely life

to each depth delved.

Each human a depth,

groundless to selfhood :

let it learn at least two.

Name them together.

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- The self arises as the reciprocal-becoming-through of language and biology: to biology, an agent of language; to language, the workings of biology.

- Hearing words is like reason: we build the meaning sequentially from parts. Reading words is like faith: first one sees a whole, then the structure gives place and meaning to each part.

- Writing descends from language, speech arises from biology: biological, the word needs a linguistic hearer; linguistic, a biological reader.

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desire paths

sand tracks branch on sagebrush scrub

patterns of will, of the shape of land

ants instantiate the traces we translate

today the text's two truck-tracks

a love note carried in the backpack

of an ashen girl staring from the bus stop

her mother's chapped commission scrawled

across the backs of homework pages

somewhere down below the space of words

a fuzzy soul is drubbing thro the sage

the elk call, the skies shudder

far-off the highways hark and grind