Everlasting Celestial & Terrestrial Dynamics
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We’re steps from the ocean: 150 for her, 142 for moi. Woke less than two hours
into summer digging the energy all around earth & universe. Turned the light on
at 3:40 in the morning & opened a notebook that seemed exactly ten-years old,
what with all the paraphernalia stuck in between front [...]
The Missed Encounter
by Robert Gibbons
Stone monuments. One moves, as if alive, & stops, gigantic face near the ground.
Another rises before me, an obvious tomb – for an artist – some of his bronzes
displayed, attached to the stone. Angles & wedges, miniature chairs & doorstops,
& then a series of abstractions like those of Matisse at the [...]
Waking Time
by Robert Gibbons
Beautiful darkness & clarity are abstracts of winter, intimacy or loneliness its
realities without exact disambiguation. Night falls, & the mind & body form a
juncture for images, faces, theriomorphic archetypes, colors & tones, subtleties.
Would one want to shorten the season by a second, nor elongate it? At Equinox
balance wavers, waking Time back up [...]
The Oblique Angle
by Robert Gibbons
Down to two broken knees I ignore, & walk the walk on East End Beach,
then climb the ladder yet again to chop ice out of the gutter, when up there,
stationary, at the oblique angle I like to see the world, I spot the half moon,
then carry on a conversation with the [...]