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a representation of devoted labor
the idiomatic spiritual partner of a tribe
history's eye placed equally forward & aft…
it was guilt-laden full of meaning
time out of time & the whisper of so many
nevers tears recombinations & quietudes
the velvet-hewn patina of knowing…
it was the narrow charge of being beyond being the pungent burgeoning of new thoughts beside the old a bridge between ages innocently saying everything but not forgetting to breathe…
it was all providence become a leaf
a leaf become strong in unfriendly winds
an expert monument to the building
of monuments like dignity / humility / trust…
© 2003 Joseph Robertson
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WRITING & NAMING: the medicine of acquiring knowledge
Joseph Robertson
Language is that point of contact in the abstract, that plane where the intellectual life within us is enabled to assert itself as part of the overall experience of living. Language is that plane where the individual self is allowed repeated attempts at manifestation. What takes place in the process of writing, in the spilling of ink or the posting of digital characters, the slip toward defining a landscape, however brief, is the sanctification of an individual, and by extension of the human condition as such...
Not every person is a writer, by trade, nor should they be, but there is something about the act of writing that serves the writing individual as if it were a medicine for selfhood, a healing venture into clean waters. Especially so when its intent is to be expressive of secret regions of the mind or to lay out new experimental vessels for such expression. [Keep reading...]
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