{"id":99,"date":"2008-05-16T00:24:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T05:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/?p=99"},"modified":"2022-10-01T14:45:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T21:45:11","slug":"the-house-that-emma-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2008\/05\/the-house-that-emma-built","title":{"rendered":"The House that Emma Built"},"content":{"rendered":"
In the House that Emma Built \nThere are two chambers \nOne looks upon the other \nAnd the other looks outward<\/p>\n
A turntable spins ye-ye<\/em> \nA darkness sleeps in fits \nA cat speaks in Mandarin \nand the walls, last forever<\/p>\n
A man is hidden under the boards \nWhile the window glares on its curtains \nAll lines cast suspicions \non the vagueries of nature’s curve<\/p>\n
Brightly bit, sound asleep \nexposed in so many tears \nand projected through with \nthe light of shining wit \na drama in black and white \nand a tragedy in color<\/p>\n
The turntable spins ye-ye<\/em> \nthe dance party is over \nand the cat licks its chops \nin the house that emma built<\/p>\n
in a sub-basement that the house built \nin a different plane, on a scale removed \nthe memories of the house dream an emma \ncast in infrared and animated with love \na panoply of spirits shimmering and laughing \ncooking and breathing and weaving a guitar out of old chord<\/p>\n
kittens act out Siysphus with a ball of twine \non a mountain of folded laundry \nthe bicycle room looks upon the garden \nand echoes with the ring of rusty belling \na friend is dozed upon the chaise casting spells \nof resurrection…<\/p>\n
awaken dear emma, awaken \nlife under rebar and concrete oppression \nerodes all homes with moisture and oxygen \nthe house becomes the garden, the window the way through \nthe emma — the notion, and the idea — a means to \nawake dear emma, awake \nand live in musical tires, with spyrographs drunk in honey \nand fungus budding through floorboards, over sweet oceans \nin time with all awakening<\/p>\n
the house becomes the emma \na smile simply drawn \nin parametric models \ngrown from new math \nall the lawns have been banished \nand the asphalt all ground up \nwhat becomes is Now is emergent \nthis house that emma built \na lattice of dreams in habit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"