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until I saw: without embarrassment
this country miss its chance looking at color
"I Don't See," Ed Roberson
MARK the STRANDs:
reality checks itself against
realities too small to detect.
Caliban, Prospero, Miranda...
Fearful assymetries,
fulsome viroids of
art and science.
The particulate matter:
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"a sea-change into
something rich and strange..."
Nano-ethics under
the signage
of "construction."
Michael Sailor: "nanotechnology is
much more than particles. Color
is the refraction of light,
illuminated nano-
holes."
(GEORGE DYSON)
In a field
IN THE GAME
I am the absence
of field.
OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION
This is
always "The Case."
THERE ARE THREE PLAYERS
Wherever I am
(syllable counter-culture):
reality checks itself against toxi-
cities, histories too small to detect.
I am what is missing.
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AT THE TABLE:
When I walk
HUMAN BEINGS,
I part the air
NATURE AND MACHINES.
and always
I AM FIRMLY
the air moves in
ON THE SIDE OF NATURE
to fill the spaces
("We are such stuff
as dreams are made on,
rounded with
a little sleep...")
where my body's been.
(Receptacle for/
of contagion.)
BUT NATURE, I SUSPECT
We all have reasons
IS ON THE SIDE OF
the noisest optic...
the dirtiest of clean rooms,
the laboratory of the body-be-
coming-factories
for other forms
that see, seethe, seize
their own freedoms,
their own communities,
their own rights:
for moving.
Venture, O Science,
research prophet!
From the sky, I spy
the tipping point,
NAZCA LINES------------
a teapot in The Tempest...
(DONNA HARAWAY:
"I'd rather be
a cyborg than
a goddess...")!
THE MACHINES
(nano diamonds,
sublimed fullerenes):
reality checks itself against
futurities too small to detect.
"Spectral barcodes:
what makes these have color
is the absence of particles."
Equal access:
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I move
to keep things whole.
to pair a phrase,
ART/(SLASH!)/SCIENCE
(obsolete—perform,
or else—as the nano-
object). Something sounds...
beneath the skin
Mayan technology, trans_
patent tales:
David & Goliath,
swallowed by the whale
"flash of voice,"
fractal fabric-
the deed
(like the need)
nodally quickens.
Gather dispersal,
redistribution
(nano x nano).
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Ariel perspective:
"O wonder! How many
goodly creatures
are there here!"
The absence of field,
the occasion,
"How beauteous—
'consensual opacities'—
mankind (sic) is!":
"O brave new world that has"
confabulations in
deconstructive cohabitation,
"a history of the future" filling in
the blanks ________ ...
as we speak: "such people in it!"
Miranda, Prospero, Caliban...
(Why did the universe tip
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to the side of the particulate,
matter?) "Like a rainbow or
a water droplet," reality
checks itself against virtu-
alities too small to detect:
the absence of field,
the present's presence.