Things and not-things

I was thinking about–or, I actually made a note to think about–the fact that a lot of the things I’m currently making are planned out, plotted out, started in a notebook. I work on them flatly, small-ly, without the dimensionality that they end up with. (A dimensionality I often feel unsure about...)

  “ It was the first poem I had experienced not just as verbal or intellectual construct, or even as music, but somehow as a material object, a kind of sculpture. ” 1

It occurred to me that to say “some objects are quiet” (Post 1) is to imply that those objects do actually exist on a spectrum of volume, within a realm of sounds--taking place at some point on a line that runs from “silent” to “impossibly loud.” (How do you know when/whether or not to include “silent” on a volume spectrum?)