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The quarters a pilot works in      four feet eight

inches high      four feet six inches wide     four feet
six inches   fore & aft

I took 48 feet of heat tape      four packs of four 3 feet
lengths of insulation	a flashlight	a trouble light a
roll of duct tape     a scissors      & a radio to keep track
of the space shuttle.      Left radio      & insulation at stooping
height     Left trouble light & extra heat tape at crawling
height    Took duct tape   scissors    & enough heat tape    Slip
ping     slithering on my back    a miniature dust storm rotating
thick dirt   eyes & nose filling with sediment       the body
stiff    caught between   element   & element      Arriving beside 
the tiny cold copper piping    but unable  to move even my head
side to side    or lift an arm

klos tro fo bi a, N. (fr.  L. claustrum, a confined place +
phobia.) Med.  Morbid dread of being in closed rooms or narrow
places.                              the Italian film      where
Ulysses is thrown into a heavy stone prison      then ever so slowly
the ceiling begins to descend       first he is forced to stoop
then to crawl         then finally to flatten himself on the floor
& push    at the last second he is saved by Jason      But
the experience has left him a    raving lunatic

Don't cough storming more dust into the small stratosphere
all fingers feeling less     in numbing mercuries

first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane 
first woman to fly the Atlantic alone
first person to solo between Hawaii and California 

her horizon       & her instruments 

Titled MIDWEST

Plan for a performance/installation.

1   A large box of ripe wheat, 100 feet by 100 feet.
     (Wheat just at the ripeness preceding swathing.)

2   Several tall black floor fans at the west flank of
      the installment.

3   Fans set at medium speed.

4   Gallery goers must remove all shoes and footwear at the
     door and not a word or sound is to occur once inside.

5   Only the rasp of the wheat beards rubbing against one
     another should be heard.

6   The undulating ripple of the blown air across the wheat
     should be the only movement in the gallery.

7   No windows should occur in this specific room and all 
     gallery goers must stand to the north end of the installment
     or sit on the floor.

8   The walls should be unblemished white and the floor around 
     the installment plain light wood.

9   Very bright sun type light should flood the installment.

10  It should be warm in the room, even   hot   despite the fans . . .

She had a thing about mornings    You always woke up 
alone
            On Monday I'd written in my appointment 
book   Get ready for Tuesday .... & in the cafe I 
mentioned everything too fast    it's not a great 
idea to expose your total person   to one other    over 
beers     various aspects of the personality should 
be responded to   by various friends   who know the 
different yous   each from their different view
                                                 Maybe
that's why she started describing this gorgeous 
number she'd picked up last night     afterwards they 
didn't hit it off ..........

Outside the growling of the lions       rose
from steaming sidewalks      She threw some ketchup on
her scrambled eggs   signaled the waitress for toast
                                     0 Well
she said     A trick is a trick.

Dear KHAQQ

just her tapping my foot
eating oreos
dunked in my coffee

At breakfast the question    of nuclear weapons in space

Now    the voices were faded      they sang to her     Her own
name     in bits    Underneath 2556 miles of water whistled
shore    tunes    it's soft clapping a comfort   & a horror
The plane is the point at which the fog & the sea would meet.  
A koan is a puzzle that cannot be answered in ordinary ways.  
All my
        Electrons Lord!    all my protons    neutrons   leptons
    mesons   haryons     all my Gravitons!  "this will be
the secret of my disappearance          A massless particle 
is a particle   of zero rest mass all of its energy   is energy

                                                   of motion"