Knots

Table of Contents

• Cover 1
• Copyright 5
• CONTENTS 10
• Flight of the Mind & Measuresof the Stars 12
• Knot Theory 14
• It’s All in Your Head 15
• Allow a Babbling Bird 16
• Degas’s Petite Danseuse 17
• Mirror Image 19
• Desire Flying By 20
• Starry Night 21
• Chagall, After Halley’s Comet 23
• Flammarion at the Edge 25
• Halley’s Comet as Seen by Giotto 27
• Exaggeration Swoons 29
• The Hunters in the Snow 30
• Blackbirds Must Be Flying 31
• Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 33
• Orange Still Life 35
• Looking for Love 36
• Hesitation 37
• A Bigger Picture 39
• One is the Other 42
• Autumn in Love 46
• Lovers 51
• The Occupied Mind 58
• Writing that snow is falling 60
• This reflection of you emerges 61
• There is no thought in thinking 62
• Occupied as it is the mind 63
• In spring a profusion of blackbirds 64
• The mind that loves to look 65
• There’s the rhapsody of stars 66
• The foolish mind tosses 67
• Our intimacy sprawled across 68
• A mind with a mind of its own 69
• At the heart of things memory 70
• Like noise of the pouring river 71
• When aroused the agile mind 72
• So consumed by everything 73
• Love lost is a sorrow in the heart 74
• The tranquil mind is no airy 75
• The mind that knows best 76
• If your voice be ready 77
• Some things we can imagine 78
• The fever in your mind evolves 79
• The caress of things we think 80
• Thinking what the night might 81
• The contrary mind arrives 82
• Thinking is the daily breath 83
• A slow restraint gives rise 84
• The mind emptied of itself 85
• First light in the morning 86
• The mind is a stubborn emptiness 87
• That the last of snow is falling 88
• Our thinking inhabits its own 89
• The mind reflects on its appetite 90
• Every thought is well expressed 91
• Impatient morning birds light 92
• A rowdy confusion rains down 93
• The mind stripped bare of itself 94
• What remains outside the knot 95
• What the wilful heart knows 96
• Trying not to think will comfort 97
• In the moment a thought fails 98
• The unruly mind strays into 99
• The attentive mind daily looks 100
• As long as this passing mind 101
• Whatever else the mind might wish 102
• Nothing we know runs on and on 103
• It’s easy to forget how much 104
• Being both wishful and mostly 105
• Invited to remember one thing 106
• Minutes 108
• Primitives of Memory I 110
• Prophesy 111
• Seconds 112
• Protocols 113
• Asymmetrical 114
• Disguises 115
• Separations 116
• Answers 117
• Succession 118
• Proportions 119
• Saturation 120
• Hours 121
• Primitives of Memory II 122
• Symmetrical 123
• Days 124
• Negotiation 125
• Emanation 126
• Hymeneal 127
• Intimacy 128
• Lightning 129
• Quiet 130
• Grief 131
• Arrival 132
• Planetary 133
• Primitives of Memory III 134
• Continuum 135
• Conflagration 136
• Afterlife 137
• Cause 138
• Effect 139
• Before 140
• After 141
• Conversation 142
• Unspoken 143
• Unsayable 144
• Permutations 145
• Primitives of Memory IV 146
• Combinations 147
• Endurance 148
• Aurora 149
• Comforting 150
• Multitude 151
• Patience 152
• Periphery 153
• Trajectory 154
• Sleeping 155
• Resonance 156
• Flying 157
• Primitives of Memory V 158
• Trace 159
• Crossroads 160
• Questions 161
• Science 162
• Quarrel 163
• Spirits 164
• Voices 165
• Destination 166
• Testimony 167
• Pentimenti 168
• Minutes 169