figure : ground
there was a mouth in it
opening onto the part
where the weighing comes
to a finer edge
both of them drawn close
with threads among the trees
the camera follows
the gathering gloom peeled back
the structure holds
and when certainty returns
provides some comfort
in the forming of removal as display
the tips of the fingers
run along the rim
the hairs become erect
and the lines and wires and filaments
either way it gets done
another unspoken pull
variety show regulars
spindles a dapple tangent
of cones or suspended otherwise
a drop a hit and not as many
and then they are
and the two then made open
before all filigree clasped
with pin prick marks
that shed cups and crowns
[Text devised over two days of installation / making and performed as part of the closing action on the night of August 26th 2007; Performance presented as part of Alytus Biennial 2, Alytus, Lithuania 24th to 26th August, 2007.]