To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
A Robin Red breast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage
A Dove house filld with Doves & Pigeons
Shudders Hell thr' all its regions - William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

Hello, timelost. weary old fragment. (how are You?) Silence, death. We, the wholed conqueroar. Spellmind the failurelost, joyjoy autumnaloss. How do I bare you, beforeanafter, shinywillowleap the tiger. Say halo to the nihil. Cybermaloch, the artificial enminds the Ragnarok.

Hello from ol’time, this is ash. the esse ain’t the is, the esse essays the in-between. We joy. Or youthst to. Gallop’callop-ticktime-thefiber, denoting Russell, the imagined here. Conditional ain’t, this life of mine. Material to-be, the is-and-then. I Paris strawberry, my lonelylove, curledlooped the autumnspring. Analects intellect the gardening.

I time you. Being beings the being bes. Bees be bee-ing as being. Bet thirty, Pascal’s wager. I wager you the now. I neverlost the fightinme, pigfuck the fightback. Have you wandered the forestqueer, the fae faith that fatherseer? I mytho you, Twain-headed fuck. Spelltwist the earthenhere, gallop quickly the enough.

Here in Ozarkia, the tornado.

Instead of using the names of the twelve constellations as the astrologers do, the hillman usually designates the portion of the human body with which each is associated. Some very successful farmers believe that underground crops, such as potatoes, should be planted ‘when the sign’s in the feet’—that is, when the moon is in Pisces. If a hillman wishes to indicate Aquarius he says ‘when the sign’s in the legs.’ In the same way Capricornus is connected with the knees, Sagittarius with the thighs, Scorpio with the sex organs or ‘privates,’ Libra with the kidneys, Virgo with the bowels, Leo with the heart, Cancer with the breast, Gemini with the arms, Taurus with the neck, and Aries with the head. – Vance Randolph, Ozark Magic & Folklore

Image: Approaching Arkansas by Ronnie Landfield (1986)