Porosity & Permeability

Porosity and permeability. Words. Ideas. Aesthetics. Biases. So many opportunities to mis-listen. Misinterpret. Assume… We volley language and visions without ever knowing whether or not we perceive the same boundaries. The same winning. And losing.

Sometimes an image, less answer than visual poem, is the only way.

Other times a poem-poem, less answer than question, is the only way.

Pondering Porosity & Permeability

Designer and poet
poet and designer
dance, again and again,
extemporaneous
spontaneous, but not.
Familiar riffs and
returns and refrains and
more morning melodies
pondering or preaching,
preaching or pondering.
But dance, song, and debate
don’t distill or define
permeability’s
seamless interweave,
porosity’s power
to integrate inner
sanctum sanctorums
with outer otherness. 
Visual and spatial, 
spatial and visual
rhyme, relationships rhyme,
environment within
environment without
dance and sing and debate.

Perhaps a poem — photographic or wordy-nerdy — is only a placeholder for the elusive and the evasive…