...and when the mode of the
music changes
the walls of the
city shake
a perspective from relative place
humbled individual to their part
in universe and other
single individuated mind
in time
gathering tales and knick knacks
of history into a trick bag
do you feel melody and riddim’
in verse
word sound image sandwiches
attention to source
to _____ and just story
word jazz s c r a b l e m and
recontext' of everything
in John Coltrane and
James Joyce
Pound’s eccentricity flows
to American in Europe, Joyce’s concentricity
circulates the planet
two sides of a new shiny coin
ideograms on side a
hologrammic prose on the flip
two torrential rivers of ink
bleeding shared currents
liffissippi
Joyce’s Be-Bop and
Pound’s symphonic compositions
cut and mixed together
Homeric history and Ulysses
in a conch shell sunset
and a Dublin street fight
the inner
Joyce and the
outer
Pound dynastic index
Irish American tell all tales
The Cantos awake
a wake Cantos:
a dream/nightmare from
which I am trying to awake
(not)
sleepwalking giants leave
footprints in the mud
trackers reverse the prints
into beasts
explicit Cantos give us facts
weights and measures, the dates
places, names and flames to wit
implicit Finnegan offers us
truer ficts, rubber inches,
neurological realism and the funnies
...like J.C's Ballads versus
Stellar Regions
it’s a whole different thing
consistent in its genius
'FW is psycho-archaeology
Dr Wilson said.
'no mystery about the Cantos,
Pound said.
they are the tale of
the tribe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cantos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_the_Tribe
--Steve Fly
Amsterdam, 9th June, 2013
