By bpNichol
All of Nichol's paintings is stamped by way of his wish to create texts which are accomplishing themselves in addition to in context, and to exploit oblique structural and textual units to hold that means. within the Martyrology alternative ways of conversing testify to a trip via other ways of being. Language is either the poet's teacher and, via its a variety of variations, the dominant 'image' of the poem. The [nine] books of The Martyrology rfile a poet's quest for perception intohimself and his writing via scrupulous cognizance to the messages hidden within the morphology of his personal speech.' - Frank Davey
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Out from Eden’ ‘and a river went... ’ Hour 10: 10:35 to 11:35 a. m. bitten. horsefly humming ‘round my ears on a rock above the raspberry canes blueberry trees pushing through the cracks mosquitoes wild hay & skunk cabbage ‘bitten by means of the urge’ ‘the writing trojan horse’ anything at my correct shoulder birdcalls excessive by way of low & brief notes outdoor historical past what freedom is tyrannies hostile sour wars (THE OUTRAGE) complete peoples displaced (DESTROYED) ultimately takes its position in the wildlife open air all will to energy Chiang K’uei Su Tung Po perceptual units now not not like my very own phrases on paper because the international round ebbs & flows insanity darkish desires of demise & mutilation dragonflies & throughout you fields stretch on the fence traces run daisies one outcrop to a different wings of monarch butterflies round you the curtain of air falls extra humans on a daily basis demise than even your desire to can surround outdated age hunger illness battle round you the timber yield their fruit the thrill of grasshoppers or cicadas outdoor reminiscence the place the land exists structures disintegrate steeples that have been raised to heaven fall eco-friendly fluttering wings of white fluttering wings of butterflies over the fields birds & beasts name attempting to attach all of it very unlikely short viewpoint of the current ALL prior & destiny FALL useless faces of tyranny of wish isms shape a heritage of platforms torn aside within the flux of time the limb snaps rotting within the lengthy grass DI l. a. so chromatic having a look even now for the rhymes the connectives DAC a few speak of lady guy the land & bitten through the flora and fauna we disappear from the decks of ships the sting of bridges canoes overturning in northern lakes long gone DOWN in to the wildlife past town the place the wild fields wait the deer & foxes roam past the grip of heritage the place bodies decay and warfare has no longer but reached this can be what the land teaches its presence bitten a wish to commute through it a few books of traveling a lifestyles accounting for my presence our presence in those instances of conflict instances of peace all instances finally passing like this physique bitten those trees animals or TIC in brief: The Birth/Death Cycle -- Hours eleven, 12, thirteen & 14 Hour eleven: 1:35 to 2:35 a. m. commencing the current farther & farther that has to be what’s taking place father noun verb different myself ‘i fathered you’ by no means thot it'd be precise stored asserting ‘when Ellie turned pregnant’ as tho it had not anything to do with me writer a true factor right here ‘Of creativity’ ‘have you noticeable the recent factor? ’ his penis his pen is writ via ‘they gave one another a gift’ i suppose time delivers the prior ‘he’s acquired a true prior’ i. e. bad ‘that’s no longer a true current’ i. e. flawed so who’s coming to dinner or whatever who got here good that’s the problem new nouns for a few previous faces me: father Ellie: mom & then -- heritage keeps little seed in time flew out of me little egg within the nice brine correct on time carry IT ‘living in a reminiscence’ ‘my how the time is going prior’ months of it unwell watch her switch ‘our’ child its self anything inside me outdoors of me within her outdoors of her (eventually) ‘my echo my shadow & me’ ‘let’s exit & discover a current’ ‘that’d make a stunning current’ ‘may i ask who you’re giving that current to’ certainly in act in perpetuity of the race by no means can break out the chase of time of the human truth of the act beginning yet firth the burst & then the 1st born bairn now not barren (coz we was once naked in the bed room) Barrie’s me & Ellie’s we & makes 3 ‘blue heaven’ ‘s sake they name them ‘Pop’ songs any approach you examine it ‘s a similar forwards & backwards p o p as within the movement creates the concept which arrives is ‘at’ & as a result ‘notation’ of the act or truth of the production yet am i able to current the earlier?