"It is foolish to approach the infinite as if it is a product of the finite world. The infinite is primary. It is an inevitability of nature. The finite world follows in its wake. The finite we experience is a secondary component. And at some level we all know this." Harris
FISSURES
In vindication for all my religious and mystical thoughts
about everything and about nothing
I will pour my poetry on to you
like a liquid with no vessel to contain it
I will enchant and imagine you
and in the end
you and I will fall flat
between fissures in a parallel universe
mundo splashed side by side
like gems in a treasure chest
gifted for the other
in the imagining of travels
deaths in composting
same space of neither
beginning and end
of earth and of dirt.
Erica Weick 2011
FRESTAS “Bobagem lidar com o infinito como se fosse um produto do mundo finito. O infinito é primário. Uma inevitabilidade da natureza. O mundo finito acompanha seu rastro. O finito é uma experiencia secundaria. E nalgum nível, todos nós sabemos disto.” Harris Na vindicação de meus pensamentos religiosos e misticos sobre tudo e sobre nada entornarei minha poesia em você que nem liquido sem cálice que a contenha encantarei e imaginarei você E no final cairemos dentre as frestas de um universo paralelo mundo esparramado lado a lado que nem gemas de um bau de tesouros um presente ao outro viajaremos no imaginar morrer no compostar no mesmo espaço do nada começo e fim da terra e do solo
Beneath the line
Surprises found inside the kept boxes of older writings. I tried to find Harris, the source of my quote, to no avail, it seems like Harris wants to stay anonymous. Do I believe him/her? I have no idea…
The version in Portuguese is the one I wrote first, I think.
Frestas comes from old Galician feestra and from Latin fenestra, both meaning window in English. I wanted to use slivers as a translation but realized that, once again, I was inventing a meaning and jumping a step by taking the object for what it left open. A sliver taken creates an opening…
I need to be reminded of this, Erica. It's so easy for me to be caught up in the constraints of finite thinking. I know better, as "Harris" says. Wonderful images. I had similar, though less eloquent, thoughts here: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10220959973536083&set=a.10211006679069942
I love those images