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Monday, October 11, 2021

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Useful Knots and How to Tie Them



The medium
There is yearn, then there is yarn.
A strand is strung 
from a number of yearns
twisted together.
Rope is twined
in a long building 
by pulling cordage 
out of sheer matter 
in the endless twists of
how it matters, that it matters.
And what matters.
Space stands in for time.
Stringently.

 

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