— for the next Calvino
that portion we think among
o/ur made horizon here
another world can make in us
the sense to re-shape re-set
and un-destroy this if-life
ear-sight or-rite us-change
to be stood true in the or-life
re-scape situation to press on
to become yes-ways to do with
if of the whole everything
think-time world we respond
re-forward re-experience re-world
surprising life-time changes people
the human future Generation Peace
if daily us and the sea will be well
to know that gives or takes
more than letters attainable today
if you say you feel you want
you cause us
and happen to restart well look it happens
true contrasting currents
exist ineffable
language shadows like sources
overflowing us-changes in on
the challenge: re-up to the world
influence in the if situation between us
a world made special and
aware almost
cooking this other story a confusion-world
able to cross on words
no language can turn into the
art of silence
to re-order the new reading made
by choosing if sifted
us
we turn on
vision constructed the new will to
see the context of us as yes
a thick life we start is
only every habit transformed necessarily
to see and hear the beast of
time
the horizon touched is us having a turn
to knowledge in a trying day
difficult with language usly frustrating
to try widely every event
plot
remains a beginning we try
in moving avalanche gradation tradition
to survive stories we sense harm
acting under language becoming
us increasing awareness
the fight everyday living long
in the difficult world-port we call on
to appear to make and free life
trying to mean yes a re-movement
usly speaking to read more and yes
together action Operation We see
rearranging us on the long story of
the world in accord we if
we re-
the us languages on as a re-collage
by characters trying
the world on
in passages connecting every art
reconcilable if the
true challenge
tangle of sense renewing attention
and interest in the uni-poetry love
for human reality o/ur nautilus tale
began to object the problem projects
express tomato said
the re-approach also includes
a story
each think sees to say it possibly
beyond capacities start with imagining
all tried
to write the creative is-sense
the us-problem developed sensitivity
senses to make as if
to make change be human
you pre- re- experience
fully connected us a sense of
knowing to desire we make us if
the re- complexity
up close to the other trying
"We
re-World the un-World" is an Archi-Poem made by Ted Landrum in response to
Italo Calvino's 1983 lecture "The Written World and the Unwritten World", found in fresh translation by Ann Goldstein (HarperCollins, 2023),
p119-130. The poem builds on a series in
progress called "Six Poems for the Next Calvino".
Archi-Poetry rule:
Select very
few words, syllables, or letters, from each source line, making changes as
desired... & #MakePeaceNow!
Ted Landrum is the author of Midway Radicals & Archi-Poems (Signature Editions, 2017) and two collaborative chapbooks: Table for Four / Eccentric Crops (JackPine Press, 2020) with Steven Ross Smith, Jennifer Still and Colin Smith; and Room to Room: Poetry & Architecture in Conversation (Arkitexwerks, 2018), with Ingrid Ruthig and Komi Olaf. Find more from Ted Landrum at www.ubuloca.com and youtube.com/@tedlandrum1479.
the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan
