Experimental Boundaries

     I snagged my first book contract with a series of experimental writings that had the preliminary title of Human Symbol Abstraction.  The larger body of that series was a complex and surreal work on the machination of personality and subconscious in transformation during the maturity process that was called, Irrevolution.
     Irrevolution originally topped out at over 120 pages and I won my first award for this book-length paradigm of thought processes.  I was asked to edit and rework the form of the work for publication and throughout the years it has become true to its theme of transformation as it has changed and matured along with myself into an ever-changing and living piece of form.
     What began as a free-flowing and linear epic single poem has become a more reader-friendly and palatable series and sections of verse that can each stand alone or connect readily to the greater whole.  The following is the first piece and beginning of Irrevolution:

A THEODOLITE VIEW OF BEING

Stance

degrees to turn, a

                       n

                     gle and sweat

                          for subconscious measure (l e n g t h s

                                                                     and

                                                                 v         s

                                                                  o      e

                                                                    l    m

                                                                      u

                                                            per convergence)-

cognition's endless lines

                             that             t

                                             c                                        r

                                           e               perception's     i      c

                                         s                          endless c            l

                                       i                                             s    e

                                    b                                     to

                                                                  bring

                                                           one

                                            returning

                                   to

effect degrees-

a conscious measure (and sometimes

                                                   one personal level more is

                                                                 attained,

                                  but growth capacities

                                  change) of no  w   i   d   t   h , only  d

                                                                                        e

                                                                                        p

                                                                                        t

                                                                                        h

(or azimuth in the eyes

to the topography

                            of the mind).

                                   Learned things granted (inferred that way)

                                                 and

                                   charted (or forgotten away).

          Affect degrees

changing these charts-

                                 unsocial boundaries realigned,

                                   asocial portions pledged,

                                     social Fahrenheit realized-with

      all interactive motion

and force

reckoning (inner inching voices

                            to

                  outer peck noises): thought's
                                                heart move-

                                                                  ments in

                                                                              chosen

                                                                              spatial

                                                                  radius

on the response plane of active measure

(as a man believes and

          becomes

himself,

bleeding

          character.