Friday, March 29, 2024

Two Moods: Eclipse and Emergence

Heart eclipse projected onto a frame drum.

ECLIPSE
 
One of the ways
August expressed her sorrow
after her marriage
fell apart.
 
Eclipse of the Heart
San Francisco 1983 

ECLIPSE OF THE HEART 1983

EMERGENCE

On the other hand
August's Knotted Hare 
Capitola 2002
expresses her fondness for every kind of animal,
Spring flowering,
one more joyous Easter:
our good Lord emerging from the tomb.
 

Thursday, March 14, 2024

The Discovery of Anti-time

Jim Rintoul

THE DISCOVERY OF ANTI-TIME

This being the tale
of the future discovery
of what was at first assumed to be
counter-reality,
(and as such did not matter),
but which soon came to be known as anti-time.
 
Because anti-time could be surfed
like any wave,
the implementation
and subsequent proliferation
of anti-time devices
for the home and workplace
made anti-time big business
if you could just get your board
in the water in time
moving forward
against a headwind of the future
rushing into the past,
to ride the wave till it crashed
and let time (the undertow of anti-time)
reel you back into the present.

The discovery of anti-time
anti-mattered so much
that time began to matter again,
until it became so cheap to produce
that everyone spent it freely.

 
Jim Rintoul lives in Santa Cruz, 
was a prominent member of 
and has just published  
It Only Laughs When I Hurt 
Aquarian Moon Productions (2024)