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Yago De Quay in Ad Mortuos,
a Brainwave Performance April 26, 2015;
Ad Mortuos is a collaborative work based on a poem by Stephanie Pope |
WHENCE SOUL’S
PROFOUND REALITY
“We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases,
played. It does not come from play like a baby detaching itself from the womb: it
arises in and as play, and never leaves it.” -Johan Huizinga, Dutch Historian
Homo Ludens, man the player, state of grace
(smoke/pain) . (thunder/them) . (milk/shine) . (undone/forever) repeat forever/remembers[1]
round is the divine play, the ludus amoris, the milky shine/reflection in a state of struggle smoky pain/( his) version of them thundering through his consciousness―a reflection
hippo athanatoi
(struggle/onset )
(absence/repeating)
repeating repeatedly
what seems forever
yet in cessation, an achievement
entropy
a measure
of the number
of specific realizations
(alternating between) or
mythopoesis
©2016 Played Not Playing stephaniepope mythopoetry.com
notes
1. `J. HUIZINGA, Homo Ludens, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1955, p. 173
2. Yago De Quay
[1]
The line is a subject heading from an email exchange between poets, Richard Lance
Scow Williams, David Jewell and myself.
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