To read Steve Arnsten’s poem, ‘OCEAN: A PROLOGUE,
Say, from breath 10,
“It isn’t necessary,”
the measure is the breath,
typed spaces = sounded
units separated by
silence.
Read as many breaths
At a natural rhythm and tempo in
Each longer unit
Until you run out of
Breath.
Stop at the end of every line -
Even if you run a red light.
(or longer).
The line and the phrase are semantically
mutely sculptured,
mutually brought to a halt together, always together
as you breath.
We’ll get to the heart later. [Olson]

My measure here for unit
Is H. D. Moe ; my measure of David’s unit is Peter Ganick,
The longer poems.
Don’t read as if you are reading.
Try to speak.

The metaphysics is solidly based on the natural [Tao, hylé, stuff] pf experience.

Don’t sing even when the words do.
Stop at the end of every sentence,
Even when the period is invisible.

This is a periodic prose.
--written for memory, not for a reader.

“Because a memory has no boundary
and may remember YOU.”

With a mathematical precision
Approximating an early morning
Kiln firing
Cinder smell