IN A CAREFULLY EXERCISED CARING EXERCISE, PATTERNS

BY ALL DESIGN, A TRACE OF THEE
        ~For Ric

Breakage
consumption
displacement—this

intense situation
concerned with
“Mine!”

Slippage
invasion
erasure—this!

But, myth suspects
all othering; in a myth
there is no other side

     ***

One’s origin
is
a native

always-already
hidden
contra-diction—this

one, marked (by gods)
is the other
of two; this

way-making
discovers violence is
on its way to perdition.

So, way-making now
carries our differences
as differ/ance (Derrida)

way-making
the ance-nature

our emptiness

her mask
slips
in

a little
logos & the
three bears


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