PARATAXIS

parataxis being specifically
(an order of discourse
precise in its exactitude

Notopoulos
a footnote in Eric Havelock's
PREFACE TO PLATO

picked up on by Olson
1963, the only required text
in his Modern Poetry course, Buffalo

"beads on a string"
every event in Nature
equal to every other event

And this happened, and that happened, and that
no subordinate clauses
"unpleasant because it is endless"



a metaphysic of a science of grammar
rooted in the oral
pre-writing
when Mythos is
before Logos, syntax (Letter 23)



Not that journal of Cambridge Apostles
Giving it title
Without knowledge of its specificity
Thus pejorizing its power






Pataphysic is polar opposite
to paratactic

So is Li Po
Not his Haiku

But when
Drowning
In Tiamat

In the presence of an absence



"a pair of taxis" Duncan had punned