what is your name?
mary diaz
where are you from?
mexico/ ireland/ the Ronald McDonald family house on 2nd & Irving/
what are you working on these days?
11. pinning. it. down.
12. it.
13. listening intently.
14. climate of country.
15. histories of consciousness.
16. mapping of unconsciousness.
17. overcoming crutches.
18. language and silence. their infinite return.
19. the story of thinking/ the story of thought.
20. etymology of experience.
21. the etymology of etymology is truth. like an excavation.
22. pleasure. Its rare enough to be important.
23. not knowing what I’m doing
24. broadening the lexicon
25. form as extension of content.
26. mistakes, always
27. the experience of experiencing
28. finding home in a poem
what is best in life?
beginnings/ martinis/ impulses/ possibilities/ wrong turns/ absolute consciousness/ kites/ cantilevers/ catapults/ sisters/ getting caught up/ making. love / star births / bridge builders/ bar stools/ bodies/ brothers/ writing in cement/ pitfalls like oceans/ rooftops/ parliament light 100’s /parking ticket paper airplanes/ volcanoes/ saying “ali-oop”/ stranger’s faces/ going too far/ “handle with care” stickers/ french kissing/ books/ flirting with disasters/ gasping/ home/ sweatpants/ cousins/ hands/ ideas/ clavicles/ pockets/ red wine/ questions/ cliffs/ lips/ w[o]andering/ language/ silence/ bonfires/ surprises/ secrets/
what is the secret?
pan tolmaton.
