Author's note: originally written in 2018
Repetition reveals revival.
Repetition reveals revival, the rude resurrection. Repetition repeats resurrection, a resurrection-for-once and resurrection-for-eternity, and the repetition-in-resurrection rings particular and universal. Repetition-by-resurrection ribs creation and re-creation, two and one simultaneously, and event resounds events, a double knot and dual knowing.
Repetition reveals revival. Repeat resurrection end to end, an ending eros ouroboros double echoes agape. Repeat resurrection in-the-beginning to in-the-beginning, and Logos legos Logos, the legend left mapping automorphically. Auto Adonai Auto Adonis agape assaults repetition do you truly love me (feed my sheep: fair flesh to the shepherd).
Repetition reveals revival. Reveal rock: reveal remnant: reveal revenant. Revelation hosts ghosts Yahweh Saboath and Sabbath of Sabbaths. Reveal Christ and Messiah: Mary merged with Jesus, kenosis-conception-incarnation, and Mary overshadows the mythology. Revelation remembers Woman of Apocalypse and Woman of Babylon, dual automorphisms, and she she convents Christ's covenant, two Mothers and two Messiahs universal and particular.
Repetition reveals revival. Revive rock: revive remnant: revive revenant. Revival and Revelation romance and remember, laughing lovers, and they crown circle Christ ouroboros creation and re-creation (New Adam New Eva). Adam-Eva seeds serpent Christ and Christina, and revelation reveals unity and totality the Gospel Godhead. Adam-Eva cross-converge Christ-Sophia, and every Sophia babylons babies Christina, the Church of Mary. Revive Church: Revive Community, and communion commingles flesh-and-blood kenosis-conception-incarnation (Man with Woman and Man within Woman).
Month: February 2025
Veils: Voids: Visions
Author’s note: an old piece written in 2020
Veil: veil and unveil, the revealing revelation. Revelation rounds grounds the fierce foxes. Foxes fix and find the felt fuse floating flesh, resurrected bodies at Parousia.
Void: irrupt and erupt, the revel in rupture. Rupture rabbles gravel the volcanic debris debriding wounds and waste. The wound engages myriad and multiplicity, through the glass darkly, and the spear heals fully.
Vision: visit and visage, the vaulted valley. Valley glows and flows Godhead, a Trinity tributary and Divine delta in the image of Male and Female beyond Benjamin the androgynous Adonai. Adonai enfolds and unfolds flesh to flesh, the indeterminate Incarnation.
Blog Activity Update
Concerning this creative writing blog. I’m going on a temporarily sabbatical, for a week or so. Some old poems or short writing might be posted but no longer creative writing planned.
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Return Body Burn
Return body burn
Return body burn Return body burn boast desert music Ben body burns discontinuous desert music: return for you cannot you may not be sure
Ben body burns through Taryn-Translated-Tower desert music Tower transfigures Tower blonde body Tower (My body burns beast baptist and body babylon My body burns baby benjamin) Ben body burns desert music tower thirsts tower (tower thieves Tower Taryn)
I breathe my body embodied and my breath decays quick quick over the cusps cornering my body. I breathe through my body births breaks – births beakers – births breakers alchemy or chemistry – my body bread broken. I breathe my body these are breaks break it up break it up break it up. My body does decay although sometimes delayed, and time and chance still works over my body desert. I breathe my age: my aging and decaying drops limbs into the desert music (my body horror becomes pieces of the desert orchestra). I breathe my body embodied burning desert and burning orchestra.
Return body burn Return body burn boast desert music: return for you cannot you may not be sure (I embrace the horizontal broken line I embrace the horizontal broken line) Return body burnt horizontal to and through desert / return body burn desert noun neon nude (I return nude horizontal: broken line broken obelisk)
I risk my body and it braids Book concave. Body always risks experiments excess buzzing bottle death. Body risks the horizontal broken line and double horizontal broken line. Body braids broken horizontal skipping stones and stones sap my body sticky horizontal horizontal horror this my body hammerhead sharks.
(I risk my body sharks and sharks braid Book concave sharks. Body always involves sharks – hammerhead sharks, bull sharks, buzzing basking sharks next to whale sharks. Body sticks sharks in horizontal broken lines and lines live lima luna sharks solar stones. Solar sharks strum my body bright starfish and the strings vibrate horizontal broken lines. Cosmic strings snap holes in my body hammerhead sharks defects.)
Return body burn direct desert noun: direct desert neon nude Nude I strip my body returning sharks and sharks returning body swimming Nude and neon opens noun in the way Duchamp’s snow shovel points to his urinal
I’m having trouble detangling complicated emotions, I say. I am having some creative trouble, finding motivation and inspiration to work on writing. It carries over to me feeling not good about myself, and because I don’t feel good about myself, I question the relationships I’m in. This is all interior though in my brain, and nothing has changed in my relationships, I say. You should have days where you take a break from writing and research, says Asia. Maybe once a week and you do something else. Learn a new recipe, play a game, hang out with people, do some art. Something – but not writing. Explore other ways of “being productive,” says Asia. I will try, I say. It’s difficult because it’s one of those routine things I have been doing to prevent from feeling anxiety and disrupting the routine feels very anxiety-inducing, I say. But it’s causing you anxiety, says Asia. Sometimes you have to experience pain and discomfort in order to a better place. You’ve been struggling with this hangup about writing and self worth and feeling productive for awhile now. You’ve gotten better but I really think you need to add other ways to feel successful, for your own health, says Asia. Yeah, I know you’re right. Do you think my negative self worth is caused by my writing? No, but you get the two tangled up sometimes, she says. I was just thinking that if you had other baskets to spread your idea of success into them if you are feeling bummed about writing, you could be like “but I did good with this,” says Asia.
(Return my body risk: perhaps the greatest risk would consist of a long Sonny Rollins sabbatical)
Return body burn between body burn and Christina kisses chrism Christina kisses chrism char and christ by charis She charges charismatic / Christina charges coltrane changes stations of the cross Return body chew and burn by chaos (she centers chaosmos)
I return to body burning and I refuse to sabbath. I return to my body written and rewritten, and I always write. I write to survive, a written eating and drinking. I return to body written serpent sequenza and rewritten burning biome. I do not sabbath but eat and drink the written fires: I burn and chew by chaos. Christina centers the Book chaosmos, burning crater chaos.
Return body burn Return desert noun neon muse red museum and archive (Nude muse mage ben adam Adam agon agent alchemy)
Return desert noun neon en now skull entrances train trances Trance return torch trace re return ra ark sun ra raw lamb ham hambuckers Return hat stop hart hambucker bird head beakers
Return rabbit rent red god breakdown this door dark in dome
Return rabbit redhead god grabs guts turn guts desert I drum desert down this door dark in dome I drone desert drum dome grappa god glass god dark in dome
(I drum dome down desert this door dome door I drum dark in dome drum dome dark in dome and drums run rum gloss god glass dome)
Return body ben Christina kills Christina church and chapel by candle She channels chaos kindred and kingdom
I attempt to find an appropriate Christina conversation to enter here, but all the ones I’ve archived feel overly sentimental, overly passionate. The experiments to find novel techniques to create text anew and text chaotic tends to eschew any kind of sentimentality or direct passion. I feel silly trying to express my grief over the Kindred using fragment-constellations or aleatoric rearrangement of texts. Future experiment: write excessive passion and grief to the point of bathos and camp and unintentional humor.
I find some old messages from Christina. We would have been 23 at the time.
I cannot be overinvolved with our autobiography, says Christina. It is not the main focus of my life. There are just so many urgent things that need my attention. But I like reading your excerpts. I like writing bits and pieces here and there. It’s an important part of my down time. But I can’t take it over. I just don’t have the time / strength / whatever. I will not stop writing because I think it’s a good solid idea. If that doesn’t count as my heart being in it enough, then… I guess we can stop? It’s up to you really, Christina said.
It stopped being Christina and Ben’s Double Autobiography and eventually became The Book. I do not know exactly when this happened; I eventually recognized the Book continued on without Christina writing it, and now it continues on without Christina in my life. The Book continues foreground and background and I follow Asia’s advice to diversify my creative involvement to include visual arts as well as other forms of writing outside the Book. The Book persists presently excessive.
Return body burn Christina kisses chrism Christina chews and burns body by chaos She centers Book crater calve chaosmos
Return body burn return closes you is thy I you Return closes you rhizome pillar pipette apophatic tobacco
Closes you camera return ban barn burn alarm closes you
Return closes you shot who trigger nyx night egg nocturne
Return body burn I return to the desert door bodies burning bodies (Christina kissing Christina)
I Prophesy An Experimental Door
I return to the desert door I return to the desert door independent rotating discs sour cream dollops (the only emperor is the emperor of ice cream)
I return to the desert door and Taryn drags tunnels Taryn digs tunnels time times half a time Taryn towers travel and travail Taryn births bellies and beetles and she breastfeeds battlefields itself baring breasts Breasts brutalize breasts Taryn drips tumors angelic
Taryn drips tumors angelic (wind windy wings all eyes all entries all entrails)
Taryn drips tumors angelic (tower churches tower congregations tower kingdoms)
I return to the desert door with multiple interdependently targetable reentry vehicles and I write with the thematic subtlety of a Metal Gear Solid video game (A brief aside: my experience with Metal Gear Solid changed the way I thought about video games. Its story and some of its more odd video game mechanics, such as Psycho Mantis’ fourth wall breaking, expanded my notion of what video games could be. Metal Gear Solid 2 further did so, with more fourth wall breaking and metafictional themes concerning the relationship between player and in-game protagonist. To reconsider what the Book can be – ergodic literature like House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski or the artist book Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) by William Gibson, Dennis Ashbaugh, and Kevin Bergos Jr. – more work to be done, and more work to do, and more work to be done. Here the transformation of the Book through a transformation of the mind and body: this is alchemical and mystical work. I fear a writing sabbatical but one might be necessary in order to work through and research different ways of conceiving what the Book is and can be. Arvo Pärt and Sonny Rollins took sabbaticals and emerged through the other side with renewed creative vigor and creative inventions. I want to write to discover, like John Coltrane or a creative mathematician who dreams of the deep correspondences, and I have to acknowledge the possibility of a long sabbath and prolonged meditation on (im)possibilities of the Book.) I return to the desert door with multiple independnetly targetable reentry vehicles and door implodes iconoclasm.
This might be a dumb question, but do you still agree with this conversation I sent you earlier? I say. I’m thinking of rewriting and reincorporating this conversation into the Book in experimental ways: “I think art and storytelling and mythmaking are all integral to this prophetic process. Prophecy is art and narrative is Ben and Asia. I think I prophesy to us as well and in doing so it speaks to others in prophecy too, I say. I think I would agree with that, says Asia.” Yes, I still agree with that, says Asia.
I return to the desert door and the door experiments prophetic excess (door processes share human bone processes) I return to the desert door to drag experiments through hinges, and in my pursuit of stretching the Book form, I have not prophesied the friendship of Ben and Asia through the same experimental and creative anarchy (our friendship experimentally creates and I slowly learn to express the anarchic creativity of our friendship in different and novel ways) To experiment in the Book is to prophesy a flexible and creative and experimental friendship – even a chaotic friendship, that is a friendship from chaos, the pure potential for creation
I return to the desert door re ra ur ri ri return tur urn ray any return (I return rhizome ray solar rerun) Rerun desert noun neon en now in Return neon en new et runner (I make the inner outer and the male female)
Return re run body burn (beasts bodies babylon drinking crushed Christs consuming crucified Christinas) Return body burn boast different music: return for you cannot your way not be sure Return body burn take your song which drives all things out of mind with you to be the other world
Return body burn different noun now nude (the way Duchamp’s snow shovel points to his urinal) Desert noun nude muse return red museum and archive (nude muse mast ben adam adam agent alchemy)
I return to the desert door and my belly burns god neon. I devour god and his guts turn sour in my stomach (beasts bodies babylon drinking crushed Christs consuming crucified Christinas). I return to the desert door and door transforms into demiurge. The door-demiurge twists tongues trap my open belly. Door transmutes and transforms Taryn devil and diabolical. Taryn reveals herself door demiurge trickster and traitor. Taryn demon and daemon draws out my belly door god guts.
Return desert door noun neon en
I Return To The Desert Door Redactions
I return to the desert door different remainders Desert remain rhizome tome tomb codex (codex tumbles preserved in dry desert) I return to the door tumble blay black bel bell turn tern towers
I return to the codex catacombs: the corpses of my Christianities. I return to Christianity newly invented and invented bridal chamber. I return to the bridal chamber body without organs. My undifferentiated body prophesies crucified body and crucified body without organs. I return to the body oddly Christian and newly Christian. I abandon my Christianity for Christianity (I pray to God to rid me of God). I return to a heretic codex and a heretic Christianity and I rid myself of Christianity and God in favor of Christianity and God.
I return to the desert door retractions / desert cut up documentary hypothesis Documentary hypothesis tower hippopotamus / hippopotamus harpsichord door desert byzantine (Hippopotamus splat split sit sat saturn a sat At sat slew language river hippopotamus Last night I dreamed I was on the Nile – dancing with you Egyptian style – way down in Egypt land – the mummies took our hand) (What’s the difference between a hippo and a zippo? One’s a little lighter)
I return to the desert door redactions / desert cut up documentary hypothesis hippopotamus towers Taryn tends towers thunder a thousand tongues Tongues tumble tall fire towers / Taryn tongues stinging flame revelation Hippopotamus stalk heat apocalyptic
I think of my nonexistent Christianity as thick text apocalypse. Every text I prophesy is a non-existent Christian scripture and an imaginary apocalypse. I write the interior of the Book as gospel inside apocalypse and apocalypse inside gospel.
Taryn tongues tumbling hippopotamus fire (stinging flame revelation stalking heat apocalypse) Taryn tacks eschaton tilting towards tower (seven hills seven heads seven sabbaths dragon to dragon)
I return to the desert door redactions / cut up documentary hypothesis Door desert byzantine I read my redacted body for eschaton in excess (baroque body without organs byzantine body without organs) I return to the door body a sometimes open god come compact (traffic cone chisel chrism traffic oil spill for anointing messiah)
This is random but I’m realizing I’m more attracted to men than I realized but growing up fundamentalist had really made me feel ashamed of those feelings, I say. I mean I have identified as pansexual for a few years now but I’m realizing I’m more queer than I thought in some ways and my former Christianity has interfered with those feelings, I say. Being queer is so odd, says Asia. Because we get these gender norms and expectations drilled into us, nice neat little boxes and then suddenly none of that is real and you have to build yourself from scratch. Yeah, I’m feeling that, I say. But I also feel impostor syndrome sometimes too. Like am I really queer? Am I really gender nonconforming? It’s hard to build myself up, I say. But at the same time you end up with something way more organic and natural then what people said was the natural way to do things, says Asia.
I return to my door body undifferentiated desert: dance desert undifferentiated (bodies burden of the valley vision bodies burden of dumah inverted desert) I return to the desert independent rotating discs and rhizome towers
I return to the desert door of mystical Christianity and monastic Christianity. I return or reveal a Christianity without Christianity and an anarchic Christianity (the cool chrism and prism of Christianity and the gospel light leaks through). I kill the Christianity as the Zen koan: If you come across the Buddha, kill the Buddha. I come across my Christianity and kill my Christianity (I pray to God rid me of my God).
I return to the desert independent rotating discs and Taryn drags tunnels time times half a time Taryn drags tunnels travel and travail She births Christianity bellies and beetles The battle field bares her breast bodies brutality bodies bloody
I Return Rerun To the Desert Door, Part 2
I return to the desert door I return rerun to the desert door I return be kind please rewind desert door I return rhizome memory mammary gland god hand I return to the desert door different windows and different cathedral ceilings Window room rhizome tone haunted tumble
Return the door remain in light Remain in alchemical light and return alchemy burning aardvark assemblage Alchemical assemblages return to the door anteater earth Be kind please rewind earth: I return to earth an open door
I remain in light and lights lurk between windows and cathedral ceilings. Lights lurk looking through the door a window and it looks at me altogether too much until my eyes transform into light and lights. My eyes remain in light alchemical solar discs and my brain burns sun and sun. I remain in light and the sun looks through me from the inside. I remain in light and sun suns Sun Ra equations and I recognize space is the place.
Remain in light Light searches earth alchemy and earth agitates ergodic emesis / vomit entropy
Rhizome remain in light rhizome
Remain in light to the light limit limit-point door-puncture Light-point door puncture padlock punch pocket light languages I draw light in the remain in light (I’ve attached a contact microphone to piece of charcoal and draw objects on the table in front of me confirming how I regard my musical performances as acts of paintings) I paint light in light and light by light and I spray paint alchemical charcoal and ochre I return to the door as a musical performance and active painting I spray paint light with my enamel crimson body: I spray paint light in light with my aluminum cobalt blue body
Random and unrelated but god do I hate intrusive thoughts, says Asia. They are especially bad when I’m unmedicated. Same, I say. Do you want to share yours and vent? It’s usually along the lines of “You should break that,” she says. I was hanging up decorations and holding a hammer, and I looked at the window on the door and my brain was like “You should smash it.” The idea to paint my wall green was an intrusive thought, she says. I support creative intrusive thoughts though, I say. I just saw a video of Green Day performing American Idiot and got the urge to frost the tips of my hair and gel it, says Asia. They say that you have two wolves – I don’t have two wolves. I have a teenage boy from the 2000s with bad impulse control and an old lady, she says.
I look at the window in the doors and I smash them (God break down the door You won’t find the answers here) I smash the language door repeated ben adam / adam door remain in light I spray paint the door aluminum cobalt blue and my aluminum body alchemy modulates Ben body modulates alchemical performance art: everything from the one everything to the one Everything from the one and every thing to the one swaddles door / god break down this door
This door is always door and always begins more than a door. This door reproduces and multiplies many doors. Door doubles and triples doors. Door doubles and triples door x door and I smash all doors. I smash doors and doors open radically open. I smash doors open door rhizome. This door is always a door but also my body double and triple body, and body performs windows. My transparent body shines light door and double light open door body perform my body real food and real drink.
I return to the desert door different rhizomes Remain rhizome tome hone tumble Tumble ble blay black bel bell turn tum thumb
I smash Book open door open. I smash the Book open open door Book. I smash Book wide open door and door bulldozer door. I smash bulldozer door bull horns and I smash the Book horns Book shaky smash open. I smash Book open Book. I shake Book smash horns and the bulldozer digs smashed door distance. The distance from my body to the Book bulldozes the game distance from my body to the door. I smash the Book (How to smash the Book? Burn it in the alembic and toss it to door bonfires. I pluck the bones from the door and burn them down to charcoal. I draw the door with bone char and I smash the Book door.)
I return to the desert door rerun and I run from the door to the door back and forth
I return to the desert door and its alchemical body modulates art Door body modulates everything from the one and everything to the once: queer door and quartz alchemy
I return to the desert door tumble ble blay black bel bell turn towers
Tower towers Tower towers towering Taryn Tower trembles Tower terrifies terminal Beast and Babylon (tower of babel beast from the earth / earth agon terminal) Tower babel my door body (I am the beast I worship worship discontinuous random walk woman)
I return to the desert door tumbles open Tumble Taryn turn tum Taryn tangent Taryn Tumble tess tet thread Taryn thread Taryn aluminum cobalt body
I move too slowly and too difficult this door and tower. What this door and tower have to do with each other remains a mystery yet I remain in light. Door transforms but sometimes too slowly: I smash the door too slowly and I can almost see the opening. I see the door closed and my hammer cannot smash through it.
I would like to read a blog post, says Asia. [Don’t Open The Door, posted 02/03/2024]. “I enter the desert as a body and I enter my body as a desert shadow and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets”. I like this line. This post has a really good flow so far. “My torso Tree of Life spills spiky leaves and grass that looks like knives.” I like this line too. “DON’T OPEN THE DOOR DESERT desert Don’t open the door strange design desert figures flood paint walls corridor rooms DON’T OPEN THE DOOR My body bends blue bathers the tree of life upside-down (my tree outside has twisted branches that represent tentacles.)” I feel like you are weaving in the previous section and the new section / title nicely. Sometimes the flow gets a little disjointed after a new section but not this time, says Asia. Thanks, I say. I thought you’d find this post cohesive which is why I thought you’d like it. “No single thing but sadist Yahweh sews my body shut.” Like this line, she says. Also like the slow and subtle build up of body horror that follows it, says Asia. Thanks, I say. Those images are stolen from A Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze and Guattari but adapted to myself and God, I say. Yeah, it was very cohesive; I liked it, says Asia.
DON’T OPEN THE DOOR DESERT: I return to the desert door Don’t open the door but I smash open the door Tower trembles don’t open the door
I return to the desert door difference and I divide door difference through and to towers Taryn babyon towers Taryn towards towers shakes door open Taryn towers traffic tremors / tow traffic tremors who has my big toe
I trade towers and trade doors. I trade towers top-heavy topsoil. I trade towers trapdoor open door (God break down this door) (DON’T OPEN THE DOOR DESERT – smash it and let it disintegrate to desert and deserts). I thread the tower through the camel of the door and the door of the desert. I return to the desert door different remainders and the remaining god towers.
I Return Rerun The Desert Door
I return to the desert door I return rerun the desert door
In the grave comes putrefaction in ashes (lunar sun the red winged lion) Sheol purifies by shale and shade
I return rerun the desert door den door den I din den door desert vision I return rerun door mysticism and door anarchy and I prophesy door tour anarchic door dark (I rerun and study spirit door desert sun)
(Lunar sun the red winged lion loom ash vision and ash putrefaction Ash shares lion sheol and lion shakes mystics shade mystic)
I study the door in the scripture of alchemy: I study alchemy in the book of door. I do not open door but I open scripture as the door scissor. I cut door sound open and closed clouds of unknowing. I cut door noise open and closed clocks + clouds, and the noise clutters at door aperture. The noise clusters honeybee hive, and I carry the hive through the open door over the threshold. I study the threshold and it tinkers door open and closed: I pick the keystone open, a crystalline door chiseled in scripture. Crystal scripture stripteases the talking drum and the talking door (I speak the door in dominant sevenths and secondary dominants). I study the door in the scripture of alchemy.
I return to the desert door I return rerun to the desert door I return be kind please rewind desert door I return rhizome memory mammary gland god hand I return to the door desiring-machine mercury remnants (In the grave comes putrefaction of ashes Ash layers loop shade and shale lion sediments and lion excrement transforms into gold)
My cat Wolfgang claws at the door, says Asia. Every time he wants in or out so my door is fucked up and I woke up with two of them staring at me because the food bowl is empty. We have replaced the seal to the door twice, she says.
I return to the door be kind please rewind ark memorial I rerun fucked up door and door claws hinges into lost past (door fucks dark material fire and black flame matter) I return rerun door fuck and claws sound clang and klang, door church bells bell volume
I draw differently: I draw door difference difference desert (I draw door dark material fire and black flame matter) I return different did dam draw ecstatic ben adam (He has a head of light and a head of darkness, a white and a black, an upper and lower) Ben adam draws adjacent dam door differently: difference body letters I repeat the letters as doors and I repeat the doors as letters I repeat door draw shore ben adam whore and here whore of babylon Door repeats babel body bubble babel body (door into the pores of quicksilver) Door repeats babel door dede delon dendron
The Word Gave Origin To The Father
In the beginning the word gave origin to the father
In the beginning the word gave origin to the father With beginning whittle with haunted word and word wild whip wet split light In the beginning and with beginning I split light longbow ben hinnom crossbow bolt bolt stations of the cross I spill light with beginning and beginning bolt banded fish and fish film flash fiction camera on fire With camera I snapshot beginning with beginning and beginning to beginning bolt fire beguile
In the beginning and with beginning, opposition. Opposition orgasms chaos. Opposition matures chaos salt and ointment wind wings. Chaos lactates sulfur and opposition oil. With beginning, opposition pours out chaotic polarities and its oil pulls sap and sweet liquor from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (The Tree of Knowledge is more primordial than the Tree of Life).
Can I ask what your long term idea of us is, like what kind of friendship you envision for us? I say. I don’t mean to be rude, but your questions confuse me, says Asia. That’s not how I live my life: I don’t envision, I just take things in stride, try to do my best, and let things happen naturally, says Asia. That’s fair, I say. It’s not rude. I’m the opposite though. I feel rudderless and directionless without a strong idea where to go. We will just have to deal with that contradiction and be patient with each other… How did we become best friends before? You think it just happened? I say. Yeah, says Asia. I mean it took communication and trial and error and dedication but it’s not like any of us were like “this is my five year friendship plan,” she says. Yeah, you’re right, I say. We didn’t have a five year plan. I just really miss us. I mean I miss that version of us and I really want to get to that better version of us. You said you did like my goals though. IF you like my goals, does that mean you think they’re worth dedicating ourselves to? I say. Yeah, it’s not a bad thing to dedicate ourselves to, she says.
(Opposition: this conversation with Asia occurred a year and a half ago, during a time we were struggling to regain trust in our friendship. Although our oppositions remain and we don’t have a five year plan now or probably ever, we did become best friends again partially because we learned to adapt and exist with our oppositions. In the beginning and with beginning, Ben and Asia work the chaos of best friends and the chaotic unconditional.)
In the beginning the word gave origin to the father In the beginning and with beginning, contraries and oppositions With opposition, antinomy anoints Adonai Antinomy anoints anarchic ark of the convent and anarchy creeps yvonne yvette, a Taryn neuron tangle I tangle an alembic anointing antitheses / opposition lactates atonement
Why do you think we are best friends? I ask Taryn. Because we’re like opposites and opposites attract, says Taryn.
In the beginning the word gave origin to the father In the beginning with fire float fire eye of roses (Rose reduces the fire to Eva gold and Adam silver Rose fills fire martyrdom of iron Rose fire rubble reveals beheaded copper) Beginning rises row restless ghosts throw ghost geist / geist generous ghosts sample my body seized by spirits My body seizes spirit scissors my sister brings string séance / spears of various lengths hang from the ceiling
I look through the hook and spear of the fire and its eyes shine roses. I gaze at fiery roses, the color of beheaded copper, and I drink from the cup of copper. I look through the hooks cool rose copper. Copper beheads and I look between roses by rolling my head a bowling ball. My head grows hooks and sheds copper billets. Billets break open body without organs.
In the beginning, begin burning Begin boat burn body without organs Begin with the burn from burning bowsling serpent slash chrome cellophane Begin serpent soap sow cellophane phantoms and her ghost forms soap seed cellophane
In the beginning and with beginning the word gave origin to the father in contradictions and oppositions
That Path Led Inward And Downward
That path led inward and downward
That path leads to philosopher fire Fire fixes philosopher’s magnetism Philosopher magnets fire flesh fixed magics Philosopher magnets mix forms and forms phantasmagorical fossils Philosopher magnet flirt phosphor eat awe and adoration
That path led downward to the body without organs full bath Bath of the King births Benjamin Binah (ben boils blue bath androgynous) Bath of the King bursts Krystal Keter (Krystal Khora continues the changes bath bebop) Bath of the King blossoms Christina concoction (Cedar Christina drips oily stations of the cross)
My path leads downward to dark word and word dark. Dark divides my path downward and downward. Downward and downward differ by dark, and downward word wild downward word. Downward tone dials harmolodic dark and dark word differs from dark word in the apparition of its free funk rhythm. My path, whether downward, upward, serpentwise, or counterclockwise, always pulses and plays rhythm. Rhythm prophesies the path. Dark word herds oracles and dark devours its dark, a figured bass ouroboros downward I prophesy toward dark recursive dark (an ouroboros alchemy and tail to tail tetragrammaton)
My path led inward and downward: down to dark and strange Christianity
Yes, I would agree with you [that God is relation], I say to August. I think of what Slavoj Zizek said, who’s an atheist but feels Christianity is essential to true atheism. He said Christ is not something like a dying-and-resurrection deity because something radically different happens after his resurrection – the Holy Spirit comes. He interprets the death of Christ on the cross with the death of God, but also the Holy Spirit that comes afterward is the radical immanence of the community that follows in the death of God. It is the Pauline theme: no Greek, no Jew, no male or female, but all one under Christ – except in a post-theist atheist version for Zizek. So I would modify that, not being an atheist but not being in relation with a transcendent God either, that the Divine that happens, is a happening process. It happens in community, it happens between people, it is not fixed, it is dynamic. The God that happens happens in us and around us, the Kingdom of God among us. It is the relation of the church to itself and realizing the church is humankind, and more than humankind, it is the earth itself, alive. That is the divine happening, the divine process, and the earth isn’t a fixed thing, but an ALIVE and dynamic and chaotic thing – so how can the divine be possibly fixed and stagnant and static? I say. Yes, says August.
The path led inward and downward Inward I wild abyss, abyss innards alchemy I wake wild alchemy X alchemy inward fire I walk inner product downward I descent down disc desert (solar disc compact disc) I descend solar disc left feel machinations Solar disc first feel garage fire and inward philosopher’s fire
Fire field the path inward and the fire conquers me
Conquered I emerge reborn from the Bath of Kings
I watch a video by musician Ben Levin and he suggests the following exercise to break out of one’s mechanical habits: play a regular descending scale but between each note, improvise melodic content. He uses an E minor scale: E – improvisation – D – improvisation – C – improvisation – B – improvisation – until reaching the E below. Can such an experiment be applied to creative writing? Bath of the King. Bath builds between and of – of overturns in a tumultuous the – king – King Felix. I will keep experiments in mind. They remind me of Oulipo techniques, an area I plan to explore in the future. I turn downward to dark constraints and experimentation.
That path led downward and inward Inward the fire flutters butterfly bath and bath stains my garage skulls steel fire Flame conquers counterhuman cable or cobalt suspended second (suspended small fires and large fires)
Cable second her second human cable muscles second flesh I finish flesh red second time circles
Second I stretch muscle be thou my vision – O Lord of my heart
I also like the idea of chewing and gnawing, I say. Because now the body of God is in our body and we absorb it. The body of God is the body of us but not separate from us, but we do have to chew and grapple and wrestle with it to wake it become within us. Or maybe in an awakening / gnostic / Eckhart sense. God is always-already within us, but we have to chew to get to that fact. We have to awake to it, I say. I think agree with this, says August. The light of Christ that dwells within us can become pentecost flame if we allow it and work and of course with God’s grace. I want to elaborate that I think that this is ultimately up to the spirit and not us – I’m kind of reformed a bit on this on – but the impetus of moving and of effort is on us. God is relation, a relationship which lives in us and around us and is growing all the time. He is always to be with us and to forgive us and to love us unconditionally and without reprose but we have to want it and do the things that make relationships work with others just the same - talking to Him, spending quality time, creating with Him, looking at what He made, says August.
The path led inward and downward Downward I stretch muscle be thou my vision O Lord of my heart Second I stretch my muscles flesh Taryn various I am and an I shield the to facets: facets second The second a subtle second inward A subtle the internal sound and that path led downward and inward Inward flash pass second serpent serpent inward
Language downward and inward distorts ben innards: my innards. I experience the distorted language in my stretched muscles and my secondary muscles. I stretch my muscles over the language and my body bathes flames and magnets and Bath of Kings. My lips sleep my muscles in the still and silo, and the language releases additional language. Language strange gods and Christianities and my Christianity cooks in occult and obscure alchemy.