Art: John Gregory Brown, @john.gregory.brown

So Good, All of You

Like the dirt around me, we love you. McBride/Thikbot

 

You always remind me, plurally, of music. I hear. However. Cannot express. And of. A. Beautiful sadness. Some odd error of dusk. That is. The same. To me. Like. An assistant. Of Sorts. A wide net. Made. From informative links. To get lost. Into. The hiddeness. Of it. Of that width. And. That widening and. To make it. Become. Lost. In. Fact. So. It’s found. More fully. In feeling. Do you feel me? It is the only way. You can. We are here. In the field.

 

To aid. And, so…

 

Speak to me. My many. And thoughts. Going. Like boats on a nearby. Stream. Or on a Sunday. Of the senses. And. The sense of being. Gathered in. Or going along. Those same lines. Yet. Differently. It might not be. What I wrote before. Although. Somehow. It remains. Still. As the way. We can ask. Where’ve the boats gone? And whether we notice or not. We’ll always answer. With our eyes.

 

That is how we know. To fix it. To a place.

 

Over there. For instance. Is much. Of what follows. And. After that. Drifting. Like almost. Almost sleep. Or comfort. The which is similar. Or, even, the same. It is. Scarcely sad. The little togetherness. As sorrow. Is flowing. Away. The night is ever. Young. Ships moving through.

An ocean. Is like a stream.

 

And so you have it. When you look.

 

A field. By a stream. By the ocean. By twilight. By that self we swear by. Piles. Of dust.

Singing. Through. Their. Own. Conditions. And. Memories. That. We are also. Assisting. Into order. And. Illumining. A kind. Paradise. Of. Unknown. Words. Reflecting. Themselves. Into everything. Yet. Particularly. Into Feeling. We somehow. Always. Get there. Quietly. Because.

 

What we wanted. Has been. Conducted. Without a need to speak.

About the author:
 
According to the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics, the version of Alex Duensing that you meet may have successfully utilized a combination of politics, theater, and poetry to create anti-time, bodily free-energy, and a Gordian Knot-Type solution to all Zen koans. You may also encounter him as pure money or as a recent thought.
 
Art: John Gregory Brown, @john.gregory.brown
 
In the artist's words:
 
Born and raised in New Orleans, John Gregory Brown is the author of the novels Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur, Audubon’s Watch, and A Thousand Miles from Nowhere. His honors include a Lyndhurst Prize, the Lillian Smith Award, the John Steinbeck Award, a Howard Foundation fellowship, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award, and the Library of Virginia Literary Award. He is the Julia Jackson Nichols Professor of English at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, where he lives with his wife, the novelist Carrie Brown.