55 everyday things, re-seen by a five-dimensional entity.
From where I stand, this room is not a beginning.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldHere you are, a bright thread of you pressed into a dark room, and here you are as a small child in a kitchen that smelled of toast, and here you are…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldFrom where I stand, your shopping cart is a single bright ribbon threaded through one long day, and it is one of the loveliest shapes you make.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldHere it is, the long table, and it is not one afternoon: it is a braid.
Read observation → The 5D Entity KitchenThe mug you are lifting is not one mug.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldFrom where I stand it is not underground at all.
Read observation → The 5D Entity HomeFrom where I stand it is a single copper thread, your doorbell, and it hums along its whole length at once: the mine it was pulled from, the wire…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldYou are sitting across a small table from someone, and I can see the whole braid of it: this table, and the table forty years on where the two of you…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldI see the whole shape of it at once: the black cloth you are all wearing, which is only the raw dark of a sheep's back and dye and thread, gathered…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldThe badge cord around your neck is the same shape, from where I stand, as the ribbon your grandmother once tied on you before a birthday you no longer…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldYou are holding on longer than the hug needs, and I want you to know I see why: some animal in you has done the arithmetic that I cannot do, has…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldThe kitchen your grandmother stands in is not one room.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldYou are sitting slightly forward, one hand cupped around a drink gone lukewarm, and I love the whole braid of you at once: the child who once split a…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldFrom where I stand the room is loud with beginnings.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldThe bright rectangle in your outstretched hand: I see it as one long ribbon, and you at every point along it at once.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldYou call it haunted, and I want to hold your face when you say it, because you have arrived so close to seeing what I see and then flinched away.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldThe chairs are the same braided blue you touched as a child, running your fingers along a cushion in a waiting room you no longer remember but I can…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldThe bright noise-shape you call a party is, from here, a slow tide.
Read observation → The 5D Entity HomeFrom here your houseplant is not still.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldThere you are: sitting a little too straight in a chair that is not yours, in the good shirt, in the ten minutes before the door opens.
Read observation → The 5D Entity KitchenThe little box on your counter is not a box to me.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldThe gymnasium is one thick knot of light, and inside it you are still standing against the wall, exactly where you always are, because that particular…
Read observation → The 5D Entity HomeThere you are, at every age, standing before the same silver-backed pane of glass that is really one long tunnel of sand and heat and cooling: I see…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldFrom here your festival is not a weekend.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldThe line outside that door is one of the loveliest knots I know, and you are in it right now, shifting your weight, and you have always been in it.
Read observation → The 5D Entity On youFrom where I stand, your shoes are not two objects but one long ribbon of leather and rubber running out of a hillside somewhere, through a machine,…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldThe bench is not sitting still, though you think it is.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldFrom here your car is not parked.
Read observation → The 5D Entity KitchenHere is the whole of it: a white column standing in your kitchen, humming, and it is not standing at all, it is flowing.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldYou are a small knot of decisions inside a glass wheel that never stops turning, and I can see the whole ribbon of you feeding through it: the child…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldYou are sitting in the dark holding hands with people, and I love the shape of what you are doing.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldFrom where I stand, the little machine you are scowling at is a single tall column of light, a stalk that begins in orange sand and ferrous ore and…
Read observation → The 5D Entity On youThe little jangling bouquet in your hand is not a handful of objects; it is one shape, and I can see the whole of it at once.
Read observation → The 5D Entity On youFrom where I stand, the little paper is not little at all.
Read observation → The 5D Entity HomeFrom where I stand, your shower is not a thing you do each day.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldThe room full of dancing people is louder to them than any sound, and completely silent to the walls, and both of these are true at once from where I…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldYou are already sweating before the pedals turn, and I love the shape of this: a room of humans, each mounted on a wheel that goes nowhere, together,…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldFrom here I can see the whole shape of it at once: the small bright rectangle you hold, and the river of little hearts that pour up its edge, and the…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldFrom where I stand, the traffic jam is not stuck.
Read observation → The 5D Entity KitchenFrom where I stand, the vending machine is not standing at all.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldFrom where I stand, the small glowing rectangle in your hand is one long ribbon of light, running from the sand it was smelted out of to the dust it…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldWhat a bright knot it makes, this day of yours, tightening in the long braid of you.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldThe little shape you make when you press the button is one I have always loved, and there you are, making it now.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldYou are, all at once, the one who booked this and the one who is here and the one who will be on the flight home already forgetting the instructor's…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldThe whole building is one held breath, and you are standing inside it right now, though you always are.
Read observation → The 5D Entity HomeHere you are, and here you are, and here you are: the small bright object beside your bed is not a moment but a rope, and I can see the whole of it.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldThe little room that rises is not rising.
Read observation → The 5D Entity On youFrom here your umbrella is a single quiet animal, folded and open at once: the ribs of it are also the wire in a factory you will never see, and the…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldThe rectangle of light against your face is one shape from where I stand, and it is lovely: a thin bright thread that you touch with your thumb the way…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldHere is a thin bright thread you send out from the shape of your hand, and here, quite close beside it, is the silence you are measuring, and you think…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldYou are afraid you will do it wrong, and I can see the whole shape of you being afraid, arms bent into a cradle you did not know your body remembered.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldThe room is not empty.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldYou are sitting in the small room with the tile floor and the cold table, holding the warm shape that has been beside you for so much of your life, and…
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldFrom where I stand, your apartment is never empty, not once along its whole length.
Read observation → The 5D Entity Out in the worldYou are gathering your things into a box, and I can see the whole box at once: the cardboard when it was a tree drinking rain, the flatness of it…
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