Matvei Yankelevich
Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt XXV
Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt XXV
Pose a world as a tautology, or an equilibrium ––
a state of balance, or static. Something like
the river flows –– already redundant. What
in fact is its shape? For instance, someone
gave you this beer so you can’t do anything
about it. You can drink it as long as you stand
relatively still, describing to yourself the view
or the way the tree trunks lay in the northern
woods, leafless then, save for the ground cover,
so that vision is not a noun, but the un-
achievable form of the verb reading.
Legere: Greeks choose to speak; Romans
pick through the ruins. All this is well known
but bears repeating. Cherry blossoms in the rain:
the season’s emotional efficacy. To chew the crust,
another way to bite down. Even
the shapes of Eros, you know, are finite.