The first part of Airs is a set of seventeen brief poems.
dawn comes whispering down
from the trees
exhaling under thin blue expanse
earth-fuming petrichor
rises &
wafts
holding diaphragm, or
adorning dieresis
you bask
and tilt under the rolling sky
intoxicated by
the pure albedo of glaciers
you walk so
lightly
you carry the wind under your feet
rain spreads water
to hair
coalesces to translucent sheet
a cone of dewy plastic
enclasped green stems hold their
blooms as they wind their way
winds rise in the north
when free
of confining fjords
acquiring heat and moisture
frictional contrasts
that disconnect the flow
in summer it is most persistent
a blanket of thick moisture-rich clouds
warmed by descent
from the crest
forcing lake waves into the mouths of rivers
as if teeming
multiplying the air into air
and more air
as if speeding
crashing vapors into abstraction
and other forms of statecraft
stunned into stillness
when swirling mass cracks
in half under thin white
tines of forking light
listlessly sounding
up there
or down here
a storm-cloud
approaches from one or another
of the neighboring centuries
pale red and
shearing
seraphim of total caesura
without suture or
self-cure
cold air is denser and it sinks
a clatter of saucer
and cup appears
the receding tide of foam
yawning soft lace
the dust in your brain
settles like swept dunes
a ghost paces still
and moving
lines
tracing breath to
a window you open all around you
the aura of night itself frogpondering
the vast library of air
every thing
is quieter in the shadow
of a leaf
rippling aerial choreography dances the ear
The second part of Airs is a visually animated poem of infinite duration. It begins with a rectangular arrangement of the letter 'x' repeated over and over, creating a typographic grid resembling the screen of a window in your home that keeps bugs from getting in while you have the window open. Audio data from the recordings of wind is processed and converted to a moving image, and then overlaid on top of the typographic grid. Various CSS filters are then applied to these two visual elements, producing an animation that is expressive of what a concrete poem would look like if turned into a screensaver.
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