Okay, the poem didn't post--can you cut and paste into the blog windows?

More thoughts. I think the discussion of syntax was great and is apropos "The Sense Account," for as Marius' great reading last night showed, the line b/w sense and nonsense can be very thin. And there's all sorts of possibilities for syntactical deformation/reformation (see Noam Chomsky's "transformative grammar," or John Ashbery's 

A Nest of Ninnies, or Martha Ronk's In a Landscape of Having

to Repeat, or Haryette Mullen's Sleeping with the Dictionary. 

Also, I'll be teaching an Ecopoetics grad class next semester, and one 

of the texts we'll be using is David Abram's The Spell of the Sensuous: 

Perception and Language in the More Than Human World, which takes stock,"makes sense" of articulate nature, both trying to locate 

the source of language in the natural world (and so examining 

Sausserian linguistics' constructions of "arbitrary signs," and looking 

for the syntax of nature as pattern, attention, recognition. In this sense (in that sense?) Abram seeks to anneal the Cartesian mind/body split. Worth checking out--and take the class!: E630A--

'twill be experiential, project and field driven.

Okay, here's the poem:

the sense account

upon their eyes

their ears the

sense record so

full of taste

and touch too

bare finger recoils

spells out smells

the keyboard translates

makes larger space

a place for

listening is a 

plot for making

this cold November

nearly gone but

not forgotten I've 

just typed memento

mori my dear

how they linger

live in they

realms the very

haptic whorl bright

senses color me

now a larger

faculty help me

chime in refracted

ways waves particles

of speech I

say it blue

before the witness

letters mind mapping

days mine blend