from re: evolution

by Kim Rosenfield

from Introduction

Each copy of this book came along exactly during the day of publication. A second edition was ready to go and stamped and circulated in 30 languages. It became the first of its kind and a classic.*

[...]

*In the winter came a commune of reconciliation. The genesist and geologist couldn’t assume that the biblical story refreshed only. Creation finalized plants and animals through a stressed-out-Man-At-The-Top.

from Chapter 9

Like our unconscious, so many
Actions are habitual
This is easy to associate with
Other habits, at certain times and
States of the body, and another
Acquisition, reminding us
Constantly of all our lives.

Chapter 15

Weak and stunted rogues
Wheat-producing rye
Fishes turn into birds
An ostrich arises from a cross between a camel and a sparrow
Mud warmed by sunrays

Tabula rasa
Population cage
Withstanding the wear and tear of modern “tempos”
Natural heredity of the body
Inheriting the wisdom
Of people who’ve never met in the first place.

Survival by schizoid retreat
Ruptures lurking in the corners of our souls
And all through the dream.

Then a man with a light strapped to his forehead
Looks into the infant’s ear.
Eye gleam of the luminous past.

(Naturally, in the first place
In the beginning, all along, and forever one or the other)

[continues in re: evolution]