A Year in Berlin

It is a sweet air of misunderstanding
Snorting a breath of meaning
The theme of themelessness
The ontological circle
The invention of zero
In a world of numbers
The white long bone
As a factory of stimulants
An albemic of intelligence
Instant instructions structuring.

I morphs to we
Suis to sommes
Bin to sind
And in the watching
Remorphs to the I,ich,je
Either less or more
Lonely in the crowd
Forgotten but not gone.

Screams heralding the police
Only to reveal that
she, the screamer, was herself the police
arresting multiple orgasms.

The ship of symbols in the dockyard
sliding at the launch
The Place of Fools
The Village of Eyes
An Eye for Argos
The myth of now
The missing myth mouthed.

6 by 4
3 by 8
A dozen twice
Trio, and a trio of Grecian 7s
A double year of months
A day by hours
A potion by milligrams
A poison in pentagrams
An agreement of the minute
Minutes by degree
The minutes in the frame
A lunar hour
Perception as Hermes
Evaporation as sculpture
Smells from the kitchen.

© Julyen Hamilton august 1997

Created as programme note for a piece with 24 dancers in Berlin 1997.