or the plastic table
tennis ball bobbing
on the jet
of water the wobbling
dialogue the wonder of a delicate
relation brought home in the
art of drinking from the fountain
Rosebery Street Junior School, hot
summer days how the head
is a plastic ball doting doddering over
the calculation of the finger's
pressure (or was it the foot?
& where thirst is a factor too. So an image
of attention juggler the constituent
particles of the object tossed up setting
attention 'embodied in the object
itself' constituted as it is of
the many one makes the multiple
in motion though constant
as the northern star or tantric
mandala the object is at
every moment (every discrete, measured
juncture of time recaptured & indeed
placed once more in a state
of dependence on attention the
juggler's steadiness of hand, purpose, skill
intention; compare the triangle
Curtis Lancaster La Lollo three ring
circus? trapeze?, where the catcher
under enough provocation susciter des
ennemis à make enemies for (having had
the rise taken out of him sufficiently, been
made an enemy of War
overtakes Love & the catcher
the strong man the flyer the beautiful &
the woman both; the body & the hands
incoming & outstretched outstretched the
florentine's gay creation