after GV
A sort-of-leaving, sort-of ending
Begins with the promise of return
To those who will hold down fort, compile
Compose, contradict the flowing out
Or down of whirled-whorled streams
Puncturing the air with wordsensemusic
Sirens calling return, sweet-song-soliloquy
Praise of here, and here, and here
This each stone to stain red stabbed phoneme
Into place, and built block upward flowing city
Which must be hemmed into shape and
Calls and coos and lures like bait back
Into the savage ideas textual splicing spaces
Cemented to Paris-francofying artcentering
Walks along familiar defamiliarized defying
Grammar, desyntaxed unstitching original
Inspired splaying wordformating frags
Sentence-streakings nonstop alphabet
Friend: irreplaceable soundmaking contact
To be missed, to be seen again.
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Love this Jen. Especially: "This each stone to stain red stabbed phoneme
Into place, and built block upward flowing city
Which must be hemmed into shape and
Calls and coos and lures like bait back..."
I hope the calls and coos work for some visits. Chez moi est chez toi.
Dear Gearorge and Jen,
This poetic interaction between the two of you is so moving. I don't know what more to say. I suppose to watch / read your rewords of eachother and others and then read these two very personal poems for eachother, yet also reworded and about Jen's leaving Paris are just so moving and genuine. At the same time they are both great poems and in the tradition of many poets before us who corresponded via letters.
love to you both and safe journey to you Jen
Dear Gearorge and Jen,
This poetic interaction between the two of you is so moving. I don't know what more to say. I suppose to watch / read your rewords of eachother and others and then read these two very personal poems for eachother, yet also reworded and about Jen's leaving Paris are just so moving and genuine. At the same time they are both great poems and in the tradition of many poets before us who corresponded via letters.
love to you both and safe journey to you Jen
Lovely note, Amanda. I hope we have a chance to meet one day. Very best & look forward to your next entry. Geo
Hey Amanda & Bonny
Thanks. Such lovely notes from you both. Missing George, Paris, life with you all that are there profoundly! But also my interactions with you, Amanda, and our Orphs (I will get my act together, as I am getting better here all around) remind me that connections for us stretch easily across long, large, flexible word-webs. We connect even in our distances!
kisses, Jen
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