"THE ELEMENTS=====the universe is popular these daysmay of us don’t know what this..."

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THE ELEMENTS

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the universe is popular these days

may of us don’t know what this means

However, it is clear

that a universe provides for us

we often have a hard time doing it

we cannot control matter

and visions

cannot provide for our story

ideas in this life feed support

But at a certain point, go

in physical form

we can clothe and shelter

a civilization

survives and grows, yet we

struggle, expecting things to turn

to plenty

We must be engaged in survival

ourselves as we are

hunted from the elements.

and when we have done all that we can

collaboration is

because the story created

we can control

the environment of trust

responds to

how hard we try,

We develop

grace that runs partly

with the unfolding universe

”

- "The Elements," by Kaisa Ullsvik Miller (from Unspoiled Air). Miller’s book is full of these kinds of incidental, condensed observations describing things like “A Flower’s Work” or “Pressing Matters.” But how does a description work when the author has put grammar at arm’s length. Not even the period-end-of-sentence is sacred for Miller. Which is fine. It’s OK. It’s great! Because it throws me off my language momentum that I normally bring to my reading. Severely throws me off. And I think about relations between individual words. I get surprised by the inexplicably capitalized word. And I think about all the rhetoric-currents that move me through language.