Textile 10
A jumper knitted throughout, a sweater's overcoming mimesis
Less
"Chapter 1 has been suspended in a warehouse / of textiles for 1000th of a second"—at
once a sentence and a sentence in poetics.
Lesser
at once a linguistic event and a linguistic event styled after installation.
Least
Impossible work finds hypothetical situations.
Good
Situations impersonating a book, speech acts walking across stage
Better
situations impersonating a boot, speech acts walking across a stag.
Best
Suspended in a warehouse, a literacy campaign
Loudest
suspended in a disused textile factory, textiles and a second literacy campaign
after cultural evisceration.
Louder.
A woman removing her jumper (sweater) in a textile factory
Loud
removes a jumper (sweater), then another pulled inside out, says aloud,
"And now, for the retrograde inversion."
Copyright Credit: Marjorie Welish, "Textile 10" from Word Group. Copyright © 2004 by Marjorie Welish. Reprinted by permission of Coffee House Press.