A hyper-ambient, atmospheric guitar & voice elucidation on themes of the variance between the doer and the doing, subject and object, creation and creator. The vocal sounding contemplates the inner nature of human life as the most provident offering back to nature. To learn reciprocity with the entire universe begins by looking within. The word is a gift. "shaped by more hands" refers to the creative act as in step with the dream-notion, going back to Carl Jung, that 'I am not the only one in my house' or that the psyche is full with collective consciousness, that within us is all of us. All things issue through us by way of conscious intent.
In the creative arts, dreaming and waking often cross paths. Is speaking and thinking similar in psychic variance from that of dreaming and waking?This is the question I am posing in the aftermath of the creative process, which led to the track, "shaped by more hands". The question is meant for all to ruminate with thoughtless meditation, through a constant emptying of mind, towards a renewal of deeper intelligence beyond the egotism of intellect and apparent word-logic.
"shaped by more hands" is a selection from the chapbook, "Seeds and Roots" from Exotic Settlers, a full length collection of experimental writing and manuscript art.
lyrics
and not leading, trying, attempting,
nor bluntly giving, allowing or assuming,
yet to leave an ear, as offering, sacrificial listening,
to give an ear that attached a host
lets down the body into the cured mammal's coat,
whose friendship bore a spiritual communion
to dash human isolation into a silent greeting with nature
in even breath,
to leave that altar, as it survives within us
a space through which a command may pass,
one totally absorptive and proud as the enthroned mythic law,
expressed from the bearded name
whose secret existence frightens no one
its instantaneous insignificance is to be always present,
in the moment and never born nor witnessed by any thing manifest,
that whispered from a most minute creation,
a passing glut forgotten by the entire visible universe,
only to return through a remembering heard in voiceless rhythm,
to create from nothing!
an identity beyond the mimicking mold,
shaped by more hands.
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