Tintinnabulation (Performance text)

Knowing I can vanish keeps me sane

Equal hoops merge into one

And in trinity infer – in trinity infer

’Tis the interlinking

Of connotation with experience

Of experience within

Outside or inside the ring

I am walking around or through

(Outside or inside the ring

I am walking around or through)

– Touch – listen – touch – listen

Equal hoops merge into one

And all circumferences spin. Henceforth

A balance-ring doth turn

Thus spake the interlinking

Of travel with destination

Of destination without leaving

And I listen.

On a carriage window my handprint fades

(I hear its fading stain). For

Knowing I can vanish keeps me sane.

Martin Slidel: Ten Poems