David Joseph Dowker

from Machine Language


Contact human reference, ambiguous body-image
projected through haze of phases, feedback and
overlap, loop and spiral. Branch on green to
a continuous present. She walks into the film
through a reflective surface such as glass or
wet asphalt. The dawn result in quanta of sky
deciphered. Nested spirit hypothesis. Found
consciousness. (Focus on the sound of one brain
waving.) The absence of thought and the intensity
of the emotion. Quotidian occurrence blurs, re-
verberates. Vertigo hold. Coded sun-
light permeates the terrestrial.

***

Shall we toss the thousand-sided dice? Do we dare
disturb the logosphere? Hieratic access
codes and eidolons of the ichthyphallic
notwithstanding, votive (or is that vatic?)
force acknowledged: archaeopteryx
with an asterisk, semi-divine
conductor of souls, Thoth
with his mnemonics and a bag full of
micro-chips, I and I
de-vining the deity: do we
dwell in the null-field forever
or delve the delic?

***

The whole thing goes nirvana
circa 2010 - the ultimate
transmutation, this mortal
spiral to total knowledge
if not nova in the mean
time, blasted back to stone
or drowned in our own waste,
mercury in the fish the messenger
for species, light-footed, lethal -
cancer coiled throughout the system
 - no-signal condition

***

PROGRAM ONE: CALLING ALL SURVIVORS. THE MOMENT IS MOMENTOUS. THE LONG SILENCE IS OVER AND ABOVE IS BELOW AS LONG AS YOU LISTEN. THERE IS NO AUTHORITY. IT WRITES: "ONCE MORE THE STARS IN THE UNMOVING AIR AROUND THIS VICIOUS SPHERE AND I MYSELF ALONE WITH THAT OTHER ELSEWHERE." HISTORY BEGINS HERE. IN THE NEXT ROOM A WORLD IS WOMBED, WAXING MIRACULOUS WITHIN THE MUNDANE MATRIX WE CALL HOME, HOPEFULLY. SO TO SPEAK, DISCRETELY, WHERE THE HEART ACHES MAKE RADIANT. THIS IS THE GHOST OF THAT PROCESS. AN ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE AS SOULS ATTACH AND DETACH THEMSELVES DAILY.


***

The genetic is
soft machinery, inter-
self-programmable, either
oscillate or remember. He is
the one who makes a noise upon
something hollow or stretched
to filament, incandescent. She
is rain/bow, solid sky
warp, crystal      fissure
colour shines through,
whose bridge over
curved space?

***

we are the same

ape,
     the same
angel,
     the genius of the planet,

essential
spirit

and that strange beast
emblazoned upon the human
     karyotype,
drugged into remission,
by certain forces

bound

and determined

***

from the caves of Lascaux to Los Alamos

"Desiring to expand the already impractically large English language, Allegra Sloman and Jeff Rivett were moved to research/write a program which uses a thousand prefixes and a thousand suffixes from a variety of English feeder languages (with thumbnail definitions) and tosses them together to create 1,000,000 new words. Of these words, approximately 10,000 are useful or amusing. Most of the rest merely need the human circumstance to render them fit for use." (aers)

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