THE ECOLOGY OF AIR CORRIDORS
You always measure yourself in relation to the cosmos, the armchair astronomer said. Down there, she pointed with her index finger on the map on her lap, terra firma, space’s largest necropolis. The orb: an urn of calcium. A terracotta pot of palimpsest of imploded mindscapes. Stare out of your citadel and squint at the oval Moon. Then down there, at the miasmic Earth. Adjust. Collimate drifting atlases of thoughts which know nothing about thinking. We were flying above the city encircled in fog evading other planes and planets suspended in the Northern hemisphere unable to land due to severe weather conditions in Budapest. Anticipate cataclysm, the paper says, she warned. Think of the falcon family perched on the top of St George’s relentlessly pecking at the map of their nest. The totalising eyes, the lack of knowledge. The non-response to passing apocalypses. And imagine you are safe. A thought throbbing on satellite. Study the philosophy of fog. The halo where bodies end and others begin. The intimacy of borders. The vocabulary of the edge. The marginalia of air corridors which make no sense on earth or in the air. Find an illuminated name for an unnameable airport and allow this name to land on its own hoarfrosty tarmac. Post Scriptum on Mud And the condition of happiness is in the correlative. I mean in the relation of lack. Pick the two most random from the round mass of objects which know nothing about the nature of mirrors. No such things as parallels. Only one giant spidersilk canopy. Rounded in unutterance. Study the physiology of frogs, the life lived in a toxic environment, the capacity to leap away (from clattering red beaks, the beaks of the year), the distant vision, the state of torpor, the centaur mindscape, half clay, half fluid, and then the swift hesitation whether to belong to earth or liquid or in-between. |
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