9/11/10

when the clairvoyant pauses


lori sent me her manuscript of poems, utmost brevity, which included the phrase when the clairvoyant pauses

after writing lifeline and city, i sought out a "frame" at the local thrift store, saw these, had the idea to sew

as some of you know, i have this thing for trace/translucent paper

the pieces printed

at the paper store at grand central, i ask don't you think that one looks most like a séance?

what was left out

after

4 comments:

  1. i want to find a glove box that i can wrap in the remainder of this paper. so, there might be an after, after.

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  2. I will keep an eye out for a glove box. (If you can get more of the seance paper or an accent color, it may be nice to cover the glove box or the lid of it)

    I love this, those gloves, the stitching (you better wear those to some kind of opera, girl), the seance paper. What a perfect sustained moment. This is the "unpacking" of a phrase.

    As I heard someone say once, Jesus, girl, how were you made so lovely?

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  3. This post makes me want to dance and go to the opera and make things. I am teaching a class on collaboration today and I am holding these gloves in my head as the guiding image.

    Also, my grandma's first job was in a factory in the Bronx sewing fancy lady gloves.

    Also, why don't I have a pair of fancy lady gloves? Why don't we all?

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