By bpNichol
All of Nichol's paintings is stamped by means of his wish to create texts which are carrying out themselves in addition to in context, and to take advantage of oblique structural and textual units to hold which means. within the Martyrology alternative ways of conversing testify to a trip via alternative ways of being. Language is either the poet's teacher and, via its a variety of diversifications, the dominant 'image' of the poem. The [nine] books of The Martyrology record a poet's quest for perception intohimself and his writing via scrupulous realization to the messages hidden within the morphology of his personal speech.' - Frank Davey
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no! simply an knowing ((i position myself as lower than what's evidently higher) all wisdom is to understand the ledge you stand on midway among earth & sky the place the clouds slide shape & dissolve round you) a fashion of relocating within the fluid definitely now not as a guy who walks in water the place swimming may higher do or as Christ did jogging out upon it to coach them the stupidity of inflexible classification i would like absolutely the precision of fluid definition the saints discovered some time past outfitted their cities ‘upon the plains of heaven’ blue of sea (sky) white clouds (land) intermingling using north this day fog giving solution to rain rain to snow & snow protecting the line ultimately there's no definition the place you can't see the road of drawing writing tune the shape a spotlight for us i wakens from the dreamed panorama out of the phrases’ tumble should still that means separate whilst it's the torrent sweeps me through the sure beeches the swap hits the brain blood speeding to the outside of the outside sink in ink’s sin is no sin until it's the nosin’ round down on the floor the place the intensity is we learn it within the i’s i centre is a tease no centre ring in any respect Adam knew the apple used to be a pull a manner a separa- tion- ning the total for the half sin of partiality who must have been neutral (imp paintings i continually desired to reach a dance one of the childrens) desired to be a part of the total flows through into the universe absolute & open poem of ideal circulation containment of the flux the wind open air rises air gray day Janvier second whilst the circulate alterations the road straightens out & stretches on forward there’s room to go out into the residences of heaven the cloud land a night’s sleep has noticeable the final of for the instant momentum incorporates us on in our arc round the sunlight & the traces develop into so long as the tongue can /carry with no inhaling pictures shift blue sky turning again to gray it's the wind strikes it it's a language the celts knew & referred to runes (the working e’s) move as vowels via power consonants as nouns vowels as verbs what are the sentences that shape phrases they’re made up of syntax of alignment i would like to determine obvious in each bush & tree placement of the ocean & land a plan now not within the experience of plot pre-conceived yet there readable if i'm able to see guy writable goal breaks skin’s floor profits keep an eye on strikes from the know on into the un prefix delimiting the line out of the 2 yr darkness of the brain no track i may locate to guide me in poor health of finishing issues earlier than their time is marked b eaten up ’s sung in the ground diversity down the higher twists of word sur visage the mouth opens writing following the o of sound noise items of the human voice awaking too little sleep snow falls past the wind O w kinds on the word’s finish word’s starting is the book’s finish that conundrum imaginative and prescient riddle we're all good rid of the uninteresting cross of widsom w is d o ma i ’n h and the me’s restated on the pen’s tip’s ink on the tongue’s noise w in d din Blake’s imaginative and prescient of Golgonooza after midday the clouds crumple to sky blue e le me ‘n t constantly why to rid me of the ugh in suggestion i spell anew weave the realm out of the or binary the be aware spun out of the dinary into the few letters i'm granted symptoms to arrive who i can't contact miles & years among us february 1 1975 5:48 p.