Oliver Grottke. From the Series Like a patient etherised
upon a table. C-Prints, 2002.

Bryan Sentes

 

Reading Dudek’s The Caged Tiger
Sein Blick ist vom Vorübergehen der Stäbe
10
The transcendental then is merely the unknown
—No: how what’s known is
inside out: no silhouette
no eidos no idea:
The transcendental’s how you know
you’re facing the mirror
...
Aside from yourself
the world
things
How it all happened
to come
together
‘s beyond you
...

Neither this nor any mystery’s gnawed
The mystic’s "the tight-lipped"
Tongue’s quiver locked up

3

Art is a dead god’s tongue
whose words
we still like the sound of
"the music of the spheres"
night’s white noise
the whole spectrum
of electromagnetic radiation
visible and audible
only to the radio-telescopes’
timpani tipped to listen
idle humming
"I-am-I"’s sound poem

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