We’ve been waiting for the last solar eclipse as if we have time: creating simulations that take us across patterns of cloud-ing, grasping and dispersing that last hundreds of thousands of years.
The wind stretches, reaches from here to you. There is a storm on Jupiter right now which has lasted at least 340 years, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
Of the 227 moons that orbit planets in the solar sy- stem, only the Earth’s is the right size and distance away to precisely cover the sun in the sky. That perfect ratio is changing, as the moon drifts further and further away from us.3 The last total solar eclipse will occur in about 600 million years.
[Performance]
I remember leaving notes
around the house of her first wife.
These notes I made in breath, not writing.
I breathed onto her mirrors
and I breathed into her bread.
Her first wife is a vision. She doesn’t exist. Her house is down the road from ours, closer to the stream. They had a baby and nobody knew where it came from. This confused me for years.
I walked up to my first wife one day and down came an outpouring,
straight from the heavens back into my navel.
I zoomed in on her face. This wife was a quick one. She was stealthy.
So I took it upon myself to straighten her hair, lace her toes, administer poison and sit her out in the sun.
I sat that woman out.
Bread is in the oven. Her first wife sits beside me, counting peas.
And as I breathe onto her face, it’s only a breeze
on the tip of her nose.
[Performance]
Apparently, there’s a typhoon coming today or tomorrow, myg says, vaguely in ksj’s direction. The typhoon will either come directly or not come at all, ksj answers, looking straight ahead. myg grins. If it’s a 50% probability, then it’ll either come, or it won’t. Is it a typhoon! Or! Is it a shower!
They pause. The air conditioning whirs overhead. It’s a probability that could lead to either situation, myg says quietly, as ksj gets up from the floor. It could come directly, or not at all.
[Text]
You are looking at a playing field, where a longterm game of golf is in process. It is currently halftime. You are here to visit the field for one hour in the interim. Feel free to move around! When you hear a whistle blow, you will know that the hour is up, and we will meet you on the other side of the hill.
[Performance]
bodies of water where light penetrates to the bottom of the water body, bodies of water shallow enough for rooted water plants to grow throughout. bodies of water which lack wave action on the shoreline.
A worm works tirelessly to hold the volume increase button for hours on end. An orchestrated insect chorus plays out around sonic body as if attempting to capture its infested self. The earwig living in the lower half has spent months dismantling the motherboard.
[Performance]
