SOME NEW GROWTH
AT THE TEMPLE OR LOBE
By Rosa van Hensbergen
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20 pp; 14.81×10.51cm
ISBN 978-0-9791411-8-8
Composed 2011; Published June 2013
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The author writes: “Some New Growth” was composed in November 2011, in a Koganecho room of a metre by a metre.* Its light was blinking red. At some point during composition, atmospheric pressure burst the bulb and turned the room into an installation. Red lights rinsed for Yokohama biennale. Dirts that got turned out that day breed themselves upon this sheet, in a Koganecho room squared twice over to sixteen stanzas.
After two years of festering, here’s a peek into windows thirteen to sixteen:
On cue, sung to the tip. Pin it there,
a wing on solidary perspective, a painted
vocab of relative relation. The hand crawls
along the track, tries to gather broke off fai te
kai since pecked up, but home’s long shelled.
Cross section of tiles, stairs, wallets, cavus
retreat, corner cache, work-surface scar, four
walls resortless. Their outline calls.
Wrist wacked, the approach comes
necessary. Plaster fell. Try to patch
but praevia fall. Come at you, a plafond
takes no pause. Scramble for lead
(where no lead, placoid) coat. Your side,
Nomiya flattens. Only bed to dent beside
but remain. . . .
* Once one of Japan’s most famed post-war red light districts, Koganecho (Yokohama), was gentrified by the artists of the nation some time in the early naughties. Previous inhabitants were routed, outed, and replaced by projections and pastries which can be liberally enjoyed anytime of year.
