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i. pia mater +
07:45
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a round (my brain) and core-dove (spine) re
clines a tender mother. She there su
Pine sheathes heir, where all my
junk resides...the bio of my vitae.
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ii. arachnoid +
03:48
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beyond (the lining she provides), a spy
(dura) mother weaves our web, where lives the liminal: strands of said junk sur
rounding ( ) holes ( ) of ( ) no ( ) such thing...:
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iii. dura mater =
08:12
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Such a tough mother! finely, wombing
both the above in their berths a
round my selfstuff. All inner life tende
Red, all tangled webs woven to ensnare prey,
predators, self...all get their sweet comeuppance
from that one tough mother when she comes up from heirs with their faces for the world just under, just behind--not beyond my skull and scalp and hair--her.
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WON: The Three Meninges
07:44
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this trio of mothers--so named by ancient Mediterranean cosmophysiologists who
saw them as such--trinitize themselves in
t(w)o my Three Meninges. Pealed up art, a
trin I ty
would not be redeuced to a unity thus born;
a YouNut(tea) as much (as a trinity) would be torn.
They (each meninx) would die...I
(unshielded, unsheathed) would dIe.
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Piameter Dolorosa +
05:41
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a soft sorrow? but it sounds so undolorously
happy-light. (?) Well...if one softens the
tragic, does it not thus lean to joy?
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Webmaster Weavin +
06:50
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the trinister trick’s stir...: logos, ratio, maya... liminal living, half spirit/matter: morpho
genetic field embroidery: Swiss chi’s...
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and the silence is in music, per Cage and Miles, and his twin nemesIs Ms. Monk...: Rag
time to know Time...(should be hard time
tune [o!] time)...raga’s in the middle...
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Durametrically Apposed =
05:32
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...until it’s just all in, potentia actude.
Tough mama’s no different in kind than
sisters pia and spider; her hardness just
willed itself so, wild and wily, to protect
those two as much as they, with her, Pro
Tech’d my brain, spine, CNS. (A thing is per
FeckTED, Sabbath-ready, when its creator is
sick of working on it.)
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8. |
TOO: Tunebrain
07:15
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is automanic, the place where Toy’ll
cease Is; inTent, strategy, planning,
scheming all cease--the dura part in
Formed by the pia and the spider parts un
Harden in ménAge à throis...
And here is where I salute my dedicatee, Anthony Braxton:
My payback seemed that of a writer, serving your life and work; but hear is more: my music took in your influence, and moved it from the horn blown like you to the keys boarded like me. You did what needs not be done by me; I do on keyboards what does.
I don’t know how your mind worked its way into my hands and central nervous system on this 10-fingered contraption, but I can feel and hear that it happened. So thanks!
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9. |
WillKey May +
06:27
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10. |
Animalover +
06:06
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Animal lover? Anima lover? Any moll over?
I used to have molls...they mauled me out
of their/my 9 lives. But some femmes remain: daughters,
sisters...images. Memories...new girls born
and coming up, to grandfather well.
I love them for loving animals
like I wished the women I loved had loved me.
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11. |
MyoPiaNica =
08:01
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Well of course we must pay homage,
while pondering the fleshly annals of womanhood,
to the great Baroness of Monk. Privilege
scorned so ethically with love, so
far beyond the Pale. I will say more about her
in my soontobeeryleast CD of Monk’s music.
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12. |
Chromagnon June
03:13
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Dedicated to Bill Evans' chromatic reflections on Schoenberg's rarefied (post-reified) sonicflower arrangments.
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TREE: Chasin' Jason
05:57
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The best is last, and now we come to the heart of this abauriginal sonic art. My sister’s son, rock guitar god Jason Becker (re: the idea of a protective sheath of the CNS, and re: my dedication to Anthony Braxton, my book about whom was dedicated to Jason): like the first track on Angelizing Franya (Franyaphilia), this one spilled out of the depths of my real moment of life. Because, all arcane mind/wordplay aside, my fascination here with the physiology of brain and spinal cord is a visceral life-or-death concern, far beyond my little creative self...
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Mike Heffley Portland, Oregon
Please go to my Community page, scroll down to its start. I use the platform there to post a longoing literary fabulism to go with the music shared here. Readers can reply to it (as I do), but I’m not looking to engage with them. Also not looking to DO “community” there, or to pitch my product. This is mainly my message in a bottle to self, bobbing on its solitudinous sea. ... more
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