ACCIDENTS IN THE PERCEPTION OF TIME

 

"Modes of perception: between channels:

Wordless days, years, periods.

Centuries of drawing with black lead, or burnt sienna on the rock.

Restless scratches. Silhouettes of clumsy figures.

A tangle of lines (animals in motion).

Millennia of the word: winding of words around the body, lashing,

silhouettes of clumsy sentences. Space behind them.

Muting: and a surge of noisy images. Unravel. Span.

Look like you understand.

A hand for joy: draw.

A hand.

A hand: survive, kill.

A mouth for the voice (play, cheat). Open. For someone else.

Like with like (Picasso in the cave). And bridges!

For yourself. For someone else."

 

--by Mária Ferenčuhová