Body on blades

 

She’s been thinking about

things that don’t need thinking.

This gives her the sensation

that the rink sinks inches

every time she launches a leap.

A ghost wince pinches her skate.

The klutz who learned the triple

Lutz—a great deflation—smack!

Cold reminder of the bindings

in her locker. Her back iced,

she bounces up, glissades her body.

Her choice. Noise of the sigh

at the lost points. The crowd’s

high fallen to sea level.

To be or not to be

mother or medalist.

Shake the thought, find mo-

mentum, ignore the devil.

The blue sky card

The blue sky card

god trumps the predictions
plays the blue sky card.
science falls into itself
to keep theorems intact
each meteorologist
consults his instruments
(again)
& cannot help but re-equate.
god needs only to parse
the word
meteor-ol-o-gist
to offer a night of falling
stars.
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(everything helps)

[excerpt]

where is the book - 

how etymology would be like understanding ancestors

[important]

and how we also need to listen to the future beings - 

what is that, how to understand the futurewords, not simply

derivational but also visionary/suppositional

nice used to mean foolish

fools used to be prophets

nice (adj.)

late 13c., "foolish, stupid, senseless," from O.Fr. nice (12c.) "careless, clumsy; weak; poor, needy; simple, stupid, silly, foolish," from L. nescius"ignorant, unaware," lit. "not-knowing," from ne- "not" (see un-) + stem of scire "to know" (see science). "The sense development has been extraordinary, even for an adj." [Weekley] -- from "timid" (pre-1300); to "fussy, fastidious" (late 14c.); to "dainty, delicate" (c.1400); to "precise, careful" (1500s, preserved in such terms as a nice distinction and nice and early); to "agreeable, delightful" (1769); to "kind, thoughtful" (1830).

what kind of blessed foolishness from the future might illuminate and guide us

if we were to listen

nice (adj).  [etymological entry from the future]

late 23c., "envisioning possibilities" from New French nice (22nd century), related to the rattle blast rocket ships capacity to stun the passenger into a hypnotic humming state of bliss through subtle vibration. Related to the idea of rocket travel as a kind of salvation, a common milennial fever in 2090-2114 during the first planetary exodus. 

nice used to mean not knowing, in the future, it comes to mean, knowing not only with the senses; intuitive, visionary

IMUNURI Prompt: Make It Up

Fabricate, fictionalize, fantasize.

Intoxicate yourself with lies.

Penetrate the plain curtain pretending to represent reality to find some gold-ore
marbling of weird, wondrous alternative.

Plunge headlong into the faith thatyou can create anything just by imagining.

Make it up!


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