RESEARCHING THE SQUARE INCH IN RED
PINE
for Barry
The Chinese call the heart of their heart the Square Inch.
Footnote to Song 162, Copper Canyon ed.
1982
The fang-ts’ (square inch) is
the heart of the mind.
Footnote of Song 162, Copper Canyon ed.
2000
The song, too, is new.
Ancient heavenly something
becomes
This rare and heavenly creature
The definition for poetry in our
time
which is all time, it shrinks and
expands
Standing off by itself,
beautiful thing!*
becomes
Alone without a peer
beautiful thing!
A foot inside, a foot outside
of a painted yellow line
La Frontera
The border that doesn't exist
Jim
7 November 2019
*Beautiful thing, from WCW, Paterson,
a personal refrain, dating from 1975
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