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Repeated Dance of the Fluid Earth

from Evocations: Cyclical Wordplay by Rusty Kjarvik

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"Repeated Dance of the Fluid Earth" is an experimental narrative that plays off of American colonial history as a body of water, rippling throughout the waves of history. Cultural memory is as fluid as water itself, where consciousness may be revisited with the slightest alteration, leading to an eventual holistic transformation.

"Repeated Dance of the Fluid Earth" utilizes frame drum and shakuhachi together with synth beds to create an ulterior perspective in the retelling of popular history through a gendered and ahistorical mode. This also plays into our ecological history as a species, and how the ability (or inability) to listen to our story, as our voice, is similarly the story of our relationship to ecological knowledge, and how the fluidity of place with regard to land-based settlement is as dramatic in its shape-shifting nature, as the fluidity of place on a sea-based settlement. SImply put, the modern, political notion of "settlement" is a myth.

In the era of consumption, we posit a sense of material as objectified by the consumptive attitude: that things are to be consumed, used, manufactured, wasted, eaten, assembled, etc. as opposed to a creative attitude, where all things are in flux. So, with regard to the battered histories of genocide and ecocide, "Repeated Dance of the Fluid Earth" asserts a revivification of the solemn bliss of knowing where we stand.

"Repeated Dance of the Fluid Earth" was published in print form in the December 2012 Issue of Rusty Nail. The release of this music track also celebrates the release of "Visitations" a 30 page chapbook on Scribd, closing the chapbook series from "Cyclical Wordplay".

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Like the repetitious dance of an existential demise
Rounding the curve of Her glow, that slew all feeling
Into the warm sunset embrace.

“Our loudspeaker mind mumbles with numbing introspection
Blowing bothersome & brooding guises of relief for the too many
Patching up their sickly prize of sleep at each departure.”

The growling elderly sit fixated & high
Longing for the intimate stay of their grown children,
Now equal slaves.

The history of the Spanish mission-state:

Gone...

Through...

Over...

The brink of delicate awe
Crashes, sinking in low time
Rising with an inward smile.

Courageous & sweet,
She leaned in to the elegant find that was spotted
Felt softer than fur worn by ancient prophets

“A beautiful body,
Gone cold with death,
Yet still contained in glad purpose
Towards another weary world decay

Feeding sacred bushes that smoke & thin in the desert winter
Blinded on sandy beaches, hidden beneath a glade & cliff
As profaned skeletal thunderbirds fly with mouths shut
Before a lunar god dreams a song inside another human.”

All so caught up and timed
Each finger presses against her hair
Her snoring wink uncovers spring madness
Bringing together all things in the mystery of continuity

An unmentioned formless struggle
Brings the swift to their knees and the outspoken to tears.
Now, she is only a tongue that shakes out of control.
And finally clasped in between her near-shattered teeth
She sinks into bone with a clenched jaw.

“We,
Each a single entity,
Strive to perfect community
Through the hell of isolation, wealth and speed.”

“Does a semblance of knowledge appear?”
“What, out of the god of necessity?
In the myriad forms of this swollen, fluid earth?”

438pm. Feb 22. 2010
San Francisco Airport.
Listening to Keith Jarrett’s Vienna concert, 2 old ladies discuss Roman fiction.

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from Evocations: Cyclical Wordplay, released March 12, 2013

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Rusty Kjarvik Brooklyn, New York

My ancestors are from the lands in and around what is now Norway, Poland, Germany and Greece. They lived above the Arctic Circle, spoke Yiddish, were Romaniote Greek, English settlers during the revolutionary war of America, and from Germany pioneered in 19th century Alberta, Canada where they also took Blackfoot names. They were buried in religious fame; and so I also go by Menachem ben Asser. ... more

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