Small Arcs

of Larger Circles

framing through other patterns

Nora Bateson

With a Foreword by Sahra Bateson Brubeck

Read now... 'Liminal' - from the poetry

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Liminal

If you lie to me, my skin will know. I won’t notice, But the undercurrents will rearrange. Minds, mouths and limbs all clamor for ungiven providence. But each domain is somehow an empty house. We are not there. We are in the scent of a gaseous brew. Forested with silence that is curating our signals, Our aggregate is music-ing. If something is broken—the fixing is in the alchemy of our breath. If you are half here, I am half there, finding you. If your glance goes blank, and your hands don’t seek me in your sleep, The breakfast we share might be photography. We might be unfed. Recultivating is a field of fingertips, returning curious—a bodysuit of taste buds. Tending to the touch of our drifting thoughts, Listening to the flavor of our gestures. Meet me in our particular eternity.

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