The Calm Before

                        That feeling
does it come from the movement

          of the hand       over strings

              only?

When the mouth makes profound
                    what is mundane
      it misses the actual thing–
                  not meditation–but

      “Trying to find meaning, etc.”

    and lying around the ten knives

        ‘anything goes’    wrong-mind    Heart-in-darkness

    covering a plastic truth

        ‘The problem is not the arm has a cut
              but that we think it’s an arm at all’

Art then         not wood

                  is that by which we should build silence and shelter

          and light for the inner-ear


to finish the start
                      at the end of beginning


Gravity’s certain death (Opstedal called it “THE GREAT FALL”)

-Michael Price