Michael Basinski

Vase From a Pillow Book

The working fluid must

be contained in these

erotic vessels of an

adequate size and shape

for the physics in hand and

made of cormorants and

humming-birds in human form,

one of them preparing a

liquid in a little receptacle

over a bonfire and stirring

it with some implement, while

a cormorant lifts a

vessel in an arbor of a

man and woman making love,

but it has characteristics

that we do not find in other

cultures, in the presence of flames,

this radiation will mainly be

extremely soft cloud tracks.