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… And the largest voids and filaments / Are the sum of entities generated / By the joining of yin and yang. … Read more

Tao poem: a way that can be followed is not the true way / tao is not tao / a way you can lay out is not the true way / explicable tao: not tao Read more

This house I am temporarily inhabiting has so many walls. We fought for our freedom to build. Difference between a wall and a fence: you can see through a fence. Which is crueler? This is nonsense; this is a lie; this is a paradox; this is a theorem. Once I got free I wanted back Read more

This dropped as a bird fluttered free from a claw. This: black waves, soft sines gathered and stitched along a wand. This is not an artefact. Between its closed hooked ranks its flaw, a slit, diffracts the light. I long to give the smooth folds of this to my fingers, take its intricate truth, but Read more

The Tao that can be trodden is not | The random clicks of a geiger … The skilful masters in old times | Had cnts that curved space … He who stands on his tip toes | Still can’t reach the bulb Read more

Socks, after KonMari, sushi-rolled and set in lines. I am a little girl again, singing a pattern, stripes and blacks. Like so many backs. Moslems crouched in a crowded mosque. Buddhists prostrated before a statue. Yogis curled in child’s pose. I am seventeen again. Bono raises the white flag. On a Sunday, Bloody Sunday. This Read more