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Ratios of Paradise Tony Tost
 

A fear              look at it but you can only see it

A brand           a ghost that burns for centuries at a time

Vision             has no dimension and thereby embraces all dimensions

The ability      feeling the presence of an underground

A healing       a healer is not in direct contact with his or her actions

A healing        cannot be explained by morality

Communications      meaning is dictated before the speaking begins

An instrument           every emotion is measured

A fear                        bearing children with monstrous needs

A point in space         one sees one’s theories lying in state

Apparitions                authority in circulation

A system                   evolves a figure as the interpretation of lines

A feeling                  immobilization, interference, an infinite adaptation

A fear                   hearing one’s voice coming back over the phone

Voices and sounds       captured and recorded on magnetic tape, from the beyond

A technique           forgiving the dead

An innovation        the washing away of techniques

A ghost                 immobilized by driving a nail into the ground

An answer            vengeance for instruction or murder

Percussive sounds   tapping an intelligible message beneath the spoken word

A duplicate                  one's own body

An impression             there is a dull familiarity always upon waking

A parasitic entity           instructors feeding upon emotional remains

A traditional activity      stopping a fire by the throwing of stones

A circle                         the protection is drawn

Comfort                       all the circles emerge

An act                        forming something solid out of air

A fear                        being infested with desire

An appearance           a blanket of light

A voice                a trumpet used specifically for the purpose of speech

Desires                an eye floats above

A physical object             will materialize its own will

The seeing                         a face in every object

This world                   a machinery above writing out a spiritual world

Coffins                         where powerful forces scatter

A fear                          the equations are fixed

A becoming                 cleansing and protecting one’s mistakes

Mirrors                         draw out the souls of the living

A mirror                        a ghost or desire is drawn to the light

The mouth                    a circle at the end of a ritual

A face                          bright beneath the yoke of time

A harmony                   the words rush back into the mouth

An answer                  dowsing rods, pendulums, throwing the bones

An ability                  broadcasting a particular emotion to other people

An ability                   resembling fire

A fear                        the words will not revise us

A flat surface             the spirit invents its own tools

A statement                a structure for devotion

A feeling                    scares forth a face from the sky

A number                  all the letters in the word of the law

A method                 observing the missing

The eyelid                 or a thin layer of data

A metaphysics             the universe is a mouth that speaks itself

Harmonics                  the common body of a further realm

A metallic headpiece    worn thin like a crown

A joy                                    nothing is to be explained

A process                         everything is known before it exists

The silent                         a counterpart to spoken words or music

A fragrance                         the blood of a flower

Sleep                                     symbolic purification

A rite                                     swallowing the moon

The innovation            to our throats great things arriving

The devil                         appears as two competing desires at once

Work                                     the mouth opens to become a rose