• Trembling thinking
  • erupts everywhere with music
  • And forms born of the people.
  • It preserves us from systems of thought
  •     and thinking of systems.
  • It does not bear the stigmata of fear or
  •     uncertainty, it stretches
  • infinitely like a bird
  • innumerable, whos wings are
  • sewn with the black salt of the earth.
  • It reunites us in absolute
  • diversity, in a whirlwind
  • of encounters: it is the utopia that
  • never ceases, and that opens
  • tomorrow like a split fruit

Édouard Glissant
in Avignon
around the moons
in the middle of the kingdom
all utopia
all sharing
all movement
all trembling,

warmest warmest
Édouard Glissant
© Ryan Beckemeyer