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

                        forms

                        v

            (a gap)    around my startling mortal (self)

Intensifications

Pile on

The absolute need to

Hid, to turn the palm over

To reveal

Pebble

Worn, worried smooth, soothed by you.

Rubbed and ruined and focused

                                    And noticed

                                                Intensely.

                                                Intensification of noticing

                                                Pares away (protections around)

                        That (self) <

                                                Revealing

                                                Intimacies

                                                Which ache and

                                                Can never be (told received understood)

                                                            (though) communicated

                                                            They will be. (are.)