tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35283792011-04-21T12:37:45.531-07:00Shards or fragments on the way to further fragments and shards.Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03231452102119613037noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528379.post-768472162002-05-22T10:32:00.000-07:002002-05-22T10:32:07.660-07:00 <br />What <br />having been <br />is never <br />and never was <br />will be the <br />history of our race <br />history itself effaced <br /> <br />No matter the marks we now make <br />the Erasure which leaves no trace <br />will leave no trace <br /> <br />Smoothly <br />we glide down this glass <br />till the glass itself <br />has no name <br /> <br />And our slide no longer sensed <br />not even as drifting into passed <br />is no longer slide <br />nor sensed <br /> <br />A “once was” <br />amended to “never” <br />won’t even be amended <br />having never been <br /> <br />And what has been <br />will never be <br />nor was <br />the names of our days <br />effaced <br /> <br />Thus the history of this race <br /> <br /> <br />--Gottfried Bean (tr. mine) <br /> <br />[For an antidote to this work of G.B. one may go to my own Clay Testament at http://www.necessaryprose.com, the best of my efforts to have kept the fragments in vaselike order.] <br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3528379-76847216?l=clayanddust.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03231452102119613037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528379.post-768008992002-05-21T08:31:00.000-07:002002-05-21T08:36:28.000-07:00I've already a web page. So why add yet more text to the universe here? Too much text, too much already. <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3528379-76800899?l=clayanddust.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03231452102119613037noreply@blogger.com