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the encounter is not of time

it’s
the engulfing

from which
space

draws its form
its movement

beyond fragmented patterns
a geometry another geometry attempts to grasp

genesis

two spaces

a tremor

 

rippled by a

           trace

point line accent reversal

composition of the limit

witness of the encounter and encounters
conjugating the same interference

latency

   of ill being

       ill - for holding on - close to
                             the extraction

where structures are words and the word

for the forces of the movement

of an acceleration without power

beyond frames

distant from me I the word

before the clivage

surrounding the field

uniformity

where the center
is the point that erases the point to be
the representation

the machine of rupture enlarges
by a single dimension

the interval

at the void of axis

disturbance     spasm
transient fissures     desires
the sagging volume
of layers about to give up surplus

beside the side of the return suppressing distance

from center to periphery
the double no identical
                                     in the losses

to be heard

these scansions     torn voices
filters pierced by longings
the blank     the abscence

violence

where verb and subject invert

the wound which calls

in the interval

the tremor

of throbbing matter

in the infinity of transposition

they are speaking     the echo and the loss

relief the sentence the movement

in the same place

forces to bring forth

from volume
                     to amplitude

of the double glance and of the difference

the assembling

in the imperfect copy of encounters

fissures angles

dilution

between two negatives

the beams of silence

the burrowing

at the center

in the clash void of meaning

the presence

  diverts the mass

sudden protrusion and

of the impasse

     the silence deep becomes solidity

     shriek     without the thinking matter

of the verb

the non representation of the memory

   just one face

for one body                in its double

                                    the absent word

                                    where interpenetrate
the outpouring forces

an inverted number

the invisible fabric of rhythm

the movement

that surface

of colorless stain

between

the double fixity

the shadow

reflects

the body the word the body