Public Art 3 •  house & garden

We may hide in this circumfusion, secret like the cuttlefish, in his inky cast. Poems do refer to a personal world, but the spaces around the words, the spaces inside the letters, must not be blank spaces, but places in the real world. My poems are designed and installed like gauges to give direct readings of their surroundings in real time, in the present tense. There is a here here, I hope, where text and context may lie down together.

Writing a word and laying a brick are gestures of equal value and equal effect. Other valuations are false. We must learn to read the bricks, to live inside the poems.