putterings. like leaves, like dust
The typewriter has six lines of a poem on ruach. Dust on the piano. ₁ as if the words, like leaves, like dust stumbled against a break in the pavement, congress of weeds and shadow. ₂ after a pause spent in puttering about ₃ puttering in mud with his head down we enter the area he calls the cropped meadow. ₄ “puttering” and drawing. ₅ as much about concrete as about the woods. ₆ He drew a few lines to indicate the streets and it looked like the branch of a tree with names standing out in the twigs. The writing on it had muddled for him. ₇ He stared out of the window and appeared to be watching the clouds above the trees. Sometimes he closed his eyes. ₈
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1 Julius Horwitz. “The Voices,” in The City (1953) : 184-196 (185) / more at putterings 604 Abstract painting has given dignity to people’s puttering with colors. / 190 2 2901a 20250204 3 Helen Van Valkenburgh. “The Little Grey Car.” The Black Cat 21:3 (December 1915) : 32-37 (34) / more at putterings 619 4 Hatsy Shields. “In the Garden / Plots and Plans” (on Ken Druse his garden). House Beautiful : 141:5 (May 1999) : 68, (86), 89 / more at putterings 618 5 Steven W. Naifeh. Jackson Pollock : An American Saga (1989) : 819 / more at putterings 602 6 Susan Glaspell. Ambrose Holt and Family (1931) : 27 borrowable at archive.org : link 7 Anne Ryan. “The Darkest Leaf.” Botteghe Oscure 22 (1958) : 272-306 / paragraphs 34 and 31 transcription at asfaltics 2953_ryan-darkest-leaf.htm 8 Robert Seethaler. The Last Movement (2020; Charlotte Collins, trans., 2026) : 43
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The aphasic patient, with his involuntary use of ready-made sentences unadapted to what he wants to express... ₉
9 Th(éophile) Alajouanine. “Aphasia and Artistic Realization,” Brain 71:3 (September 1948) : 229-241 (230) archive.org : link
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