Border Patterns

Pretext, a quotation from Ronald Johnson A Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees

"Four Orphic Poems & A Song"

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IV

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'Patterns

are temporary boundaries', the moving countries

where nothing

is seen in isolation.

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Intertext, some source finding thanks to John Latta

Johnson’s line “Patterns are temporary boundaries” is seemingly out of the writings of the Hungarian art theorist Gyorgy Kepes in The New Landscape in Art and Science (1956): “although we see it as an entity—unified, distinct from its surroundings—a pattern in nature is a temporary boundary that both separates and connects the past and the future of the processes that trace it. . . . Patterns are the meeting points of actions. Noun and verb must be seen as one: process in pattern, pattern in process . . .”

POSTED BY JOHN LATTA AT 7:26 AM TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2012

http://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/2012/12/notebook-ronald-johnson-walt-whitman.html

Witness, Four Orphic Poems appeared in Poetry July 1964; the lines that interest us are broken by a page break

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=104&issue=4&page=17

'Patterns

[page break]

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=104&issue=4&page=18

are temporary boundaries', the moving countries


where nothing
is seen in isolation.

Isolations necessary for connections.

And so for day 2279
10.03.2013