Shashoq is Aghast at The World.
Porcupine’s invitation “Will you come join us?”
is a wind that crashes through the canyon walls,
a gale that picks up all debris – feathers, leaves, dust… and trails off
The canyons reverberate with a full throated “No”,
The first and core Attachment - “to remain untouched” -
the World requires a binding that can only mean pain
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Porcupine vibrates with Beaver and Stoat at a frequency that creates an expansive force called the Magnetosphere. No ill will here, but one that lacks any agency whatsoever. As an echo more than a tangible being, Shashoq reverberates as an ascendant presence to all.
Meerkat learns with the help of Snow Leopard and Shrew to voice Shashoq’s one companion, The World. As Oscillator to their conversation, there are signs here of an approaching texture. A yes and no -ness that provides focus and direction. As loud as a storm while soft as a whisper – trailing off – both ahead and behind. “through here, through here, through here” calls the Oscillator.
The Quest of the Alchemists’ Crucible is a performance this rudimentary tension.
“Why be in Your Body?”
“Why know what you know?”
“Why say what You Say?”
Question this until you do not question this.
