opening the door & lighting the candle

important are we what is the meaning of notice objects in their place of answer it’s understood the dynamic of awareness enclosed the image of attention implied between the ordered lines that space does not object to moment’s great confinement this is the influence of realism the door is not a question it’s the way things are the consequence of force applied in this matter, of course the hand on the handle opens it, instanter the candle on the can its burning flame symbol of desire’s intention, tested arrested from the wax, potential appointed its place, pointed in its flame, this embrace of fact the conclusion of light and heat with its imported scents. If it isn’t so, it shouldn’t be.

14 August 1973