That language is material, yes, but alongside it, that matter is a thinking.
earth is interesting:
ice is interesting
stone is interesting
flowers are
Carbon
Carbon is
Carboniferous
Pennsylvania
Age
under
Dogtown
the stone
the watered
rock Carbon
flowers, rills
– Charles Olson, “Maximus—from Dogtown, II”
Brings to mind Issa, that we walk on the roof of hell, gazing at flowers. And Ronald Johnson’s thought that light evolved the eye in order to see itself.
What I’ve been reading here. Jed Rasula, This Compost. Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems.
the art of compost 