every picture tells a story
reading Alan Berecka’s Remembering the Body
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no small thing, this
pointing
the way
where story
thinks itself at war
with vision
2
where there is no vision
the people perish
intriguing, this
telling
stories for the dead
3
not how you play
the game, the game
itself. no point
piling points up
in this dark place
4
playing weiqi
thinking pinball
missing prayer bells
that may just be the point,
no verb contained
5
but not for lack of walls
not for lack of icons
hanging on them
6
every icon
a crack, a crack
in everything. that’s how
the light gets in —
bathed in blood, the way
the creator is
reviewed by Steven Schroeder, Chicago
Alan Berecka. Remembering the Body. Mongrel Empire Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-983-3052-0-0.