measure/memory
June 3, 2010
from reading Daphne Marlatt’s journal in Olson #1 for July 29, 1963, a.m.
place is now now now now, i.e here, historical, and cellular. And in the p.m. session “…as B. Hawkins later asked Olson: “You mean you write from all the cells in your body?”
history is the memory of time (John Smith)
history is the measure of time (cld be Williams)
breathin’ my name with a sigh
your name is my name
our name is bones
bones alone names
left over slowly
to send signs forward
found out needed
knowing names
parts family imprint
left shape all over
us within it
name signed
me name
as our name
added-up knowns
become truths
said-again things
left over after
sedimentary hard
embedded rock to tell
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