LINES OF 5, LINES OF 7
Creosote leaf chew
Oil-coat savoring water
Text desert tongue test
Sinagua at crossroad
Karen comparing time lines
millennium chart
Seed pods of mesquite
Forest flour ground into meal
Baked into cakes
Mesquite sap candy
Adhesive and medicine
Common cold tree part
Writing all morning
Talk with Karen day and night
Ear and eye event
Her long loneliness
When I can't access wonder
It's a public death
*
These are the women who played with courage.
These are the women. These are the ones
who explore the virtues. Deciding
is the virtue of the will
temples of spirit radiating
from bodies, merging
with the fabric of sky.
These are the men who played with blocks
These are the men. These are the ones
who explore the virtues. Love
is the virtue of the heart who live
in house wonder, wondering in hallways
of house history. These are the ones,
women and men of the imagination.
These are notebook lines
*
IN THE TIME OF DYLAN
How to read houses from paper models.
Hands on wet clay shape a new thing.
Building it. Desert shelters.
Living in the time of the cantalever.
Sheer force, moments developed
in beams. Wind and earthquake stresses.
Midpoint balance. Frames for lateral loads.
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Go fetch me a 5-man.
5-man what?
5-man rock.
Five guys?
You and four others.
Cherokee red names the color of my life.
A friend from home sends a poem
about the dark time we're in
and it's that dark.
Where I was last night
walking on lit path
Cosanti, the thing first
Ready, fire, first word
orient house proper
5 weeks to 5 years
Pull built environs
Implode together
Each one hand thrown pot
Craftsmen on five-count
Urban sprawl offense
Only cars connect
All in the notebook
Disparate image
Breath-way desperate
House before the thing
A bell in the yard wants wind
Light-rubbed patina
Jim Bodeen
28 Nov--2 Dec 2017
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