write this: film of poetry

on ted's suggestion we attended the screening of several films related to architecture and the city at the SF public library yesterday. Particularly excellent was Continuum by Dominic Angerame.

that was followed by me taking the time to track down another SF artist, the poet Michael Palmer, who recently was awarded 100Grand for being such a great poet. and how. give him 2 I say.

Found his poem sun on the uiuc modern american poetry website. continued the Bartesesque conversation of writing on writing and the act of construction where things are perceived as unbuilt.

exxcerpted below:

Write this. We have burned all their villages

Write this. We have burned all the villages and the people in them

Write this. We have adopted their customs and their manner of
dress

Write this. A word may be shaped like a bed, a basket of tears
or an X

In the notebook it says, It is the time of mutations, laughter at
jokes, secrets beyond the boundaries of speech

I now turn to my use of suffixes and punctuation, closing Mr.
Circle with a single stroke, tearing the canvas from its wall, joined
to her, experiencing the same thoughts at the same moment,
inscribing them on a loquat leaf

Write this. We have begun to have bodies, a now here and a now
gone, a past long ago and one still to come