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\"Dana<\/a><\/p>\n

Once upon a time it was a dark and stormy night.<\/p>\n

Let it be known that the writing burrow<\/a>\u00a0is made. I wish for foreign language abilities in English, to\u00a0express finished and no longer in progress. za-made. pro-made. the burrow est arrivee. little building out of barn wood in the outlier Kentucky hills, the wicker chairs and the screened wooden porch, the frog pond, the crickets and cicadas. \u00a0the humidity.<\/p>\n

the burrow manifesting at the same rate as the work. i’ve been all the builders: of the place, of the sculpture, of the lighting, the letting it through of the objectness, and the seeing, the fortune seeing, the practice in both directions, outward to the viewer participant, and inward<\/a>, throughward inside the fortune, the voice tracing the silhouette of what was told<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is a cougar in the nearest woods. I learned from people here\u00a0that the federal wildlife map showing no cougars East of the Rockies since the early 20th century is just plain wrong. \u00a0They didn’t have to convince me, my encounter was in the Blue Ridge. \u00a0Two hunters told she won’t bother humans and that I’ll never see her, but as someone who has personally been stalked by a cougar,\u00a0breathed upon<\/em>, I acknowledge a new dynamic about the place. i’m sure she makes a great living here. im sure the balances of nature are in effect.<\/p>\n

there has always been a place in the woods, behind the smaller of two watering holes, a place abovebehind that i am ordered by a stern internal knowing to look away, to pass quickly, to get out, move along, not even to note what the place looks like, except as the close branches one must avoid passing quickly off path.<\/p>\n

this time I hear from people who are here every day, the Amish, and hunters, there’s cougar tracks and a boneyard, an animal boneyard.\u00a0hers<\/em>, I think. \u00a0I\u00a0make an agreement with her. she doesn’t bother my dog, and I don’t bother her watering hole. she was here first. there has always been that place in the woods, now I learn why,\u00a0the quiet nothingness that pushes like a balloon between thought and the day, the hollow I can’t look in because I am not permitted even to notice it.<\/p>\n

There’s a red fox who darts across the open area like a cartoon drawing of himself, and coyote, snakes and turtles, and most of all frogs. \u00a0what is frog, as a totem animal, as a metaphor, a symbol? change and evolution? the living night echo? \u00a0 what is frog? \u00a0and why am i required so much frog? and train whistle? \u00a0the writing burrow is now. it took everything.<\/p>\n

this is night one<\/p>\n

july at last<\/p>\n

I look at the blank page just to see it. I don’t name it, and I don’t save it. the work<\/a>. Kentucky. \u00a0the creation, whar<\/a> was I… what was it… bring peace<\/p>\n

be love<\/p>\n

who gets it right?<\/p>\n

the world like a six-levered claw machine at the fair, so many letters and applications and projects of straight-line thinking, remembering\u00a0to write for grants and residencies and fleapowderships. \u00a0i made this place in the woods so I can get away<\/em>. i chose location<\/a> for trees and hills. I wasn’t seeking a pond, but there it was, as what to look at, what is to be seen is… reflection. \u00a0a quarter-acre sized mirror that shows underwoods that reach below to Nabokov<\/a>‘s exquisitely described other-side puddle world.<\/p>\n

I stoke the Buddha with Oreos and wait for the work that I’m here to fabricate. \u00a0I listen for it, and hear\u00a0the rumbling hog’s breath of motorcycle swarm out for a summer night ride, snarling through the hills in the dark, around bends, past the glowing, anonymous eyeballs of everything skittering away.<\/p>\n

and so I begin to decipher its exact parts, and see the chalk footprints drawn on the porch floorboards, how I would prefabricate the elements of its materialness here. i solve minute problems in the advance of my thought, how will I affix the wire – how will the screen wrap? I see the bar I have to hang overhead in order to weave these bodies downward. I see the first steps. the steps of the very next now. how it forms from the ceiling.<\/p>\n

look at caves, it says.<\/p>\n

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Once upon a time it was a dark and stormy night. Let it be known that the writing burrow\u00a0is made. I wish for foreign language abilities in English, to\u00a0express finished and no longer in progress. za-made. pro-made. the burrow est arrivee. little building out of barn wood in the outlier Kentucky hills, the wicker chairs … Continue reading Kentucky<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3700","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3700\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}