heat splashes. do you rise? make a joke, something light. i saw a squirrel once, it moved with fright but it was alright. was that funny? what is? light is not light. write what you see. the jade plant beside me. in front of me. its leaves are wax petals light, white on the green.… Continue reading on a bench, barely
coda: 27Jan2017 last week I enter large, a door frame. the door is open, light is on. "what are you doing?" (I mean what is that, specifically) "working, cole.." a curt flush from behind the front of alaptoponadesk. annoyed but playful. i keep my large at the door and insert: "will you be my creative… Continue reading you sit on it
Listening to people. Their lives. Walking home on Sunday I stop to talk to a man and his dog. We speak deeply, quickly. He brings up time and humanity which has me telling him about the interviews I’ve been collecting over the last few years. How the process is “unmooring me” as another friend has put… Continue reading walkeye and the time-being
now and last night. yes. i read something i hadn't read before. for some, this means their first time reading poetry for a crowd. what i mean is that i wrote it oct 8, 2015 (as the note was dated on my phone where it stayed) and then looked at it for the first time, more than… Continue reading when to say yes:
Listening to the interviews I’ve collected. Transcribing, re-living, processing with new ideas. Imagine me as a tree growing lessons by the sun. Ra It’s like I’m tripping. Dripping. Over the last two years I've recorded dozens of people, different ages in different parts of the world discussing their ideas of “self/not-self”, “time”, and now a third question… Continue reading “touch a nerve?” (anonymous)
" gone" made in 2013 by cole Today Faye Driscoll taught a master class at OSU. I was late and entered a room of maybe 37 students and a few observing faculty. Faye Driscoll's work Thank You for Coming: Attendance is on tour at the Wex and she is well-liked in these parts. In allkindsof parts I bet.… Continue reading joy, rage, grief, arousal, fear, peace
the following are notes on work by choreographers pina bausch, merce cunningham, and lin hwai-min, respectively. cafe muller notes: lights up on calf-searching - white flecks of slipgown movement. The windows and doors - the bang of the chairs. It is purposeful, even the misstep a redirection. It is tragic - how does one maintain interest? Why do we… Continue reading muddled notes on “Café Müller” with “Split Sides” and “Cursive II”
My own and yours, too. What now do we say, what now do we do? Listen There is knocking. Who’s In to let In? No In, just here, me. It’s time to begin. Fall free unto thee, thy self is great big – wide channels of wind blowcross fields open red. Add space in the words… Continue reading right thing is left.
audience moving with cole, photo by Noah Rogers at the Garden Theater's Green Room 2013 They step in time but not for long. She has a red scarf and he, red shoes - they cross each other in my view on the left she on her phone heading E and he with a bookbag heading… Continue reading 1 little visual story
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