"Baieido has dedicated itself to making incense for over 300 years."


A pathos of apologists. A king who sits grinning foolishly, atop a mountain of dung. All around, a crowd who would try not to watch, and must.


"Yes, we were stupid for disregarding the limits placed before us; for tryng to go everywhere and know everything. Stupid, spoiled, and arrogant. But we were right, too. I was right. How could I do otherwise when the violence of the unsaid things became so great that it kept me awake at night?" --Mary Gaitskill, V*ronica (2005)


   Lando

L'ombro nuba, domsxtelista
baroj kaj fajro;
espero lupa mia
en cxi-tiu disputita
lando
lavanta miajn pajnojn

skrapo
skrapo

   Land

The housethief cloud-shadow,
barriers & fire;
my wolfly hope
in this disputed
land
washing my wrists

scrape
scrape

(1989)


Meaning comes from speech communities interacting. The "language" that exists as dictionaries and grammars is the result of a complex process of analysis, but its relation to the meaning that comes from a speech community interacting, is that of a cut-out traced shadow silhouette to its threedimensional figure source.


Th* Land That N*v*r was.