Cicada by Phoebe Giannisi

Author:Phoebe Giannisi
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780811230247
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:01+00:00

High Road Low Road

Ι.

For partnership between equals

pairings of opposing powers

male female

sky earth

north south

cold warm

up down

light dark

right left

Heraclitus answered:

high roads and low roads are the same

High roads and low roads are the same

not in the sense

as I once thought

that the exhaustion of going uphill and downhill are the same

but rather

that uphill and downhill are accorded the same value

ascent and descent

good and evil

if made into an equation

(α) = −(α)

male equals the opposite of female

with equal absolute value

add them together and you get 0

or even

from that same unit

two split fragments

one’s curve matching the other’s

so that when joined

we’d have a perfect sphere—with the crack

Aristophanes mentioned

of the two severed from the beginning

and through Eros

perfectly fitted again

here is the sphere

made from two halves

if you consider it in terms of composition

the sign of the Tao is completed

two joined without division

and should it appear like antithesis

we have Strife

semiosis difference limitation

war

the strong onto the weak

ΙΙ.

Instead of making opposites be equal Empedocles

preferred to complicate the union

and perfect assembly

of two parts

and the intertwined

members roots plants animals

and from their union to originate

a plethora of composite disparate data

deviant blends of cyborg creatures

Empedocles’s addition doesn’t end in subtraction

no invisible glue

from each joint something Other

goes missing

something entirely different

a surplus of subplots and array

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