It is difficult to describe objects anymore.
As soon as I begin to describe an object, I
see a woman alone on the telephone and
then I fall asleep. The woman is losing her
hair. She stands in and out of the light that
falls from a kitchen window, not thinking
of anything. It is easy to assume she is part
of my imagination because she does not
have arms. I could imagine the arms, but
then her body at once becomes lost, and
the telephone is out the window. This
makes barely an impression on my mind. I
have been trying to think of something
that I have not thought of before. These
days, though, thoughts turn into women
who are barely holding objects before
tossing them out the window and then we
both fall asleep. It does not concern me, I
have said, watching a fly land on an edge
of paper. The fly made rapid motions,
spitting on himself to clean his hands. It
became him to land on the paper, as it
becomes him to appear definitively small
against any given landscape. I assume you
are inside a room. I assume you have
gotten the letter. I see you stand the way a
person stands when being thought of, held
against yourself, outside of time.
As soon as I begin to describe an object, I
see a woman alone on the telephone and
then I fall asleep. The woman is losing her
hair. She stands in and out of the light that
falls from a kitchen window, not thinking
of anything. It is easy to assume she is part
of my imagination because she does not
have arms. I could imagine the arms, but
then her body at once becomes lost, and
the telephone is out the window. This
makes barely an impression on my mind. I
have been trying to think of something
that I have not thought of before. These
days, though, thoughts turn into women
who are barely holding objects before
tossing them out the window and then we
both fall asleep. It does not concern me, I
have said, watching a fly land on an edge
of paper. The fly made rapid motions,
spitting on himself to clean his hands. It
became him to land on the paper, as it
becomes him to appear definitively small
against any given landscape. I assume you
are inside a room. I assume you have
gotten the letter. I see you stand the way a
person stands when being thought of, held
against yourself, outside of time.
Wow! I like the way some writers describe the work of other writers. I recently read a piece by George Saunders talking about an Irish novelist. He quoted a paragraph and then said. Holy shit!