How Nothing Becomes Something

Mike Essig
The Junction
Published in
1 min readMar 4, 2017
Matisse

The wind is part of the process/The rain is part of the process.

Gesamtwerk. Parts making whole from parts.
Language. Alphabet, words, phrases, sentences
create a total work based firmly upon… alphabet.
Throw in grammar, punctuation, syntax. Anything possible.
To be. Verb not noun. Moves beyond syntax. To real.
Poet as tinker. No matter. Poems as language. Do.
Right language, correct path, shining mountain.
Seeker sits. Solitude. Transcends journey. World announced.
End as beginning. Form. Gestalt. The beginning of Awe.

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Mike Essig
The Junction

Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.