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mouth is first place,
           is first,
                      place of
spacing,
            retracts from breast
opens a cavity, cave, a-
byss, or-
ifice, hole,

                       an o, an opening, an open
ring.

Touch before speech, it
opens the first space, the
first con-
            fusion: oral
& buccal –

     the mouth simultaneously
     place & non-place, place of a
     dis-
           location, gaping space
     of the quasi permixtio (Descartes) 
     of soul & body

                                         ((—> etc. page 42, Le Toucher

             try to think this mouth /
opening together with the
Olson/Celan

                 commissure / tesserae

matters 
          or : an opening, a gaping
also creates a commissure, an
angle in common, a fold.

i.e. beyond the reflexive s’ouvre
se détend, it creates a
doubling, a commonality
(com-missure) trembling
towards an outside, an ex-
teriority.

(opening opens – in the middle voice

The I already two
formed by the opening of the mouth
makes it so
says it so

that makes it so by saying it.
Not round
no circle, an
angle.

((Angel

Or in the circus, a trapeze
an articulation breaks
the round.

Break the ring-of-roses
to be, to say be-
coming. 

           The circle is always angular.
Circling the fire, you become
nomad by flying
off at a tangent,
at the commissure
:that possibility a
given

((If song is there first, or singing, as Nicole suggests, then its loss via
speech, its necessary loss is a breaking of that round, deeper down, in
the sound-box, a making angular, a creation of lines / of flight/.
Speech would then be the nomadicity of human sound, with song an
original at-homeness, sedentariness we escape.))
*

but what of Olson's
         tesserae,
         articulations
   (laws? of the same name? 
or shards, multi-
edged reterritorialize onto
the roundness of escaping lines,
of what escapes the
commissures, 

         or the way (der Weg,
                    the Weg stirbt

these lines of flight articulate
themselves?

"the desire to communicate is inversely proportionate to our
real knowledge of the interlocutor, and directly proportional to our wish to
interest him in us. No need to worry about acoustics: it will always
appear by itself. What matters is distance. Whispering in the
neighbors ear quickly tires."
                                    Mandelstham, De l’Interlocuteur, p. 67. 

                 what touches in not-touching?
                 the border, the untouchable, 
                 the always elsewhere I stalk
                 I push against yet never
                 touch.