11.12

first light coming into fog against invisible ridge

white-crowned sparrow landing on feeder below fence

then nothing except those it set in form of subject

references contained in given note follows document

each thing is first of all itself in order to exist

likewise these words the manifestation of something

light coming into fog against still invisible ridge

white edge of wave breaking on sand next to channel

11.11

cloudless blue pink white edge of sky next to ridge

two sparrows landing on feeder beside redwood fence

only until part placed between attention to letters

these recall the part against objective inner space

transcription of these things actions events taking

place in world out there word as enactment of world

fog moving across still invisible shoulder of ridge

shadowed line of swell approaching mouth of channel

11.10

light in window opposite unmade yellow and blue bed

first bird chirping from branch in right foreground

paint emphasized by light and dark broad flat color

active for example structure held in place by force

one attending to what’s on one level familiar world

shifting light observed meaning logic of difference

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

diagonal white line of wave breaking across channel

11.9

light grey whiteness of fog against invisible ridge

song sparrows lined up on fence in right foreground

explained therefore according to every other system

field where force transforms space in such way that

environment appears to be encoded with significance

hummingbird approaching flower across from listener

grey whiteness of fog against still invisible ridge

white edge of wave breaking on sand next to channel

11.8

light coming into fog against still invisible ridge

sound of bird chirping on branch in left foreground

saying to get this beginning of the story to follow

lamps going on once logic of light in the left hand

listener who can’t make out what the words are will

still hear their essential tone pause pitch silence

grey whiteness of fog still against invisible ridge

shadowed line of swell approaching mouth of channel

11.7

light coming into fog against still invisible ridge

house sparrows perched on fence in right foreground

one who projects such forms from the mass of things

direction of line and letter in revised translation

perhaps no more than an extended desire to document

bird standing on redwood fence before it disappears

light grey whiteness of fog against invisible ridge

white line of wave breaking across mouth of channel

11.6

grey whiteness of fog against still invisible ridge

sound of crow calling on branch in right foreground

reed pen and graphite on paper inscribed to his son

the more some turn to the open call its whole sound

someone looking back recalls what happened that day

moment of being there is witness to things now gone

grey white fog against still invisible top of ridge

swell line approaching otherwise motionless channel