intimate intensifications

31 Oct 2023 a poem about the deepening, narrowing focus of my practice around the radical act of intense noticing.

Intimacies

Which lead to mortalities

                        (THANTOS)

the Sublime brought on by

an act of intense

            noticing

intensifications

pare away

protections around

that which is (normally) withheld

revealing

intimacies

            tender, raw, touch, breath

            dissolution, evaporation, disappearance

intensely present

intensely absent

        …