The Body as Nature, History
All motivations intermingle as the core of history, the internal becomes external... all as parts of the body.
— maurice merleau-ponty
i. the positing of space, corporeal history
medium of my body
bent to narrow rivers,
touching of the touch
commits
totem to shape:
jasmine buds,
water poppies open as the mouth.
Propolis and juniper oil
resinous viscera
embowered in trees,
life wholly aware of itself
unbound and unsealed.
ii. into the language of seeing
eyes gather seed —
perception as hive
a bud of gold, a gold of blood
apportioned in time
four wings fastened by a row of resolutions
reeved through revelation,
place-world awoken,
obscurity bonded to light.