PASSING I should be busy with words but light distracts me makes for me, in the sowing of its waves, neutral observances, a chilled awareness that the sublime is contained herein the wonders of the commonplace. [47] KITH AND KIN Once there was a giant who lived in a kneecap, a peculiar giant at that who expelled all reality as a pig might a poke. Not concerned with the dilemma of easing life's toothpaste form into dental crustings or oblivion's dark shadows from lightless paths, the giant assumed guardianship over his fibro-tissual home. The giant could be seen ferrying dwarfed bones over the inter causal dome of flesh and blood. At times, he substituted a remarkable likeness for his kith and kin by dumping calloused cushions, too long cousins of the diaper rash effect bunions, corns, carbuncles eager to roam the padlocked sockets between distant fibula and tibia. Poor femur, of course, was outraged against carpals and the growing phalanx arrangement of distant phalanges. Even the metatarsals were girdled in righteous indignation committed against their person by a maverick masquerading in pelvic insubordination. Altogether the body contains 206 bones. It is rumoured none contain a giant of his capacity, notoriety, or effect. [48] TO SIT ARRAYED To sit arrayed and task consumed by the edge of a window, the world as fire stepping free of winter's stain, jutting fingers of light to a basement ledge then allowing their foggy movement to displace dust's circle as it has come to be known over the last five months, is to come as near as possible to the brink of private sanity. [50] SILVER COINS Seen the whores in doorsteps, slack, crouched as packing crates behind their quiet wardrobe lamps, inset like a skeleton's crown there to bend our will, provide passageways to power and suggestion; the winding entrance to rouged light flickering with powdered flesh yellow of gold, then black to ivory a frightful circus in a palace of turn within the grate of execution. [51] SENTRY In Edvard Munch's painting, The Scream, eyes are grouped as discs, almost rotund arches, much as suns