I'm building a house-boat in heaven

i keep intending to post - but am always rushing off somewhere - i've been typing numerology into the computer all morning and now am supposed to rush off to swim - but but but excuses excuses. on the notion of the littles, though - i was more intending to express my interest in the way catherine was discussing the micro-lines, than to imply that i was using them myself. but i thought you (catherine) were describing an attempt to handle a smallness so teensy that you can't use your normal rules/procedures/senses for it. and that reminded me of how i've been trying to cross over this number pattern, in my poems, into something visible and also related to content. the space waiting to be filled that strange forms make in your brain.

jj, i like 'dream w/the form, not mean w/it'. as duncan once said, wear a cape.

as a sideline, more on the smallness factor:

"One is brought back to the entirety of the single word which is in itself a relation, an implied metaphor, an argument, a harmony or a dissonance.

The economy of presentation in writing is a reassertion of faith that the combined letters--the words--are absolute symbols for objects, states, acts, interrelations, thoughts about them. If not, why use words--new or old?"

(Zukofsky, quoted in this book "Listening to Reading" i'm reading).

and here's something else: Grenier