Precario / Precarious

It was natural for poetry to complete itself in space: If the poem is temporal, and oral temple, the palace or form is a spatial temple. Both temples are entryways to the sacred space of metaphor. metapherein: to carry beyond. Metaphor takes us to other spaces of contemplation; to contemplate temples us together, or temples simultaneously the interior and the exterior. An active form of contemplation, the spatial metaphor brings together two forms of prayer: temporal and spatial. * Precarious is what is obtained by prayer. “The quipu * which records nothing”, an empty string was my first precarious object. I was praying, making a quipu, offering up the desire of memory. * * Quipu: knot in quechua. A system of colored cords knotted in a special manner developed in the Andean region of Peru in pre-Columbian times to record and transmit information such as numbers, rhythms (verse, etc.).