self-introduction

introduce yourself in a bottle, the email instructed.  no more than two paragraphs please.  de-tail all the titles and dates, of your publications.  include the categories of your prizes, and recognitions. 

is it possible--the appeal--to keep out the public?

the email attempts at understanding.  gives a day.  it knows:  you will yield to (the impossible).  because you had previously taken hermit months, weather permitting and stars aligning, to say how the lines had been cut in the now that previous work.  how the narratives of breathing silences were decided.

fill in the bottle between today and tomorrow.

easier to put pebbles from this morning's run.  or someone's lost coin found.  nobody is interested at navel gazing.

yes.  and please include a digital file of a recent photograph.  also say: how is this new predilection for the grocery list, and your claim to be a list of a list.  the public will be here-ing.

but this new--- the line a simultaneous foreground and background of space; the line as and as not the interstice;  the line as an illusion of division; the line as a strip of palimpsest; the line as both inclusion and exclusion; the line that both directs and misdirects, tells and does not tell, shows and withholds, implicit and explicit; the line that is a semicolon in between consciousness of the revealed and the hidden.  all these strangeness.  take for example, the comic book.

and the grocery list you mentioned.  the catalog and the catalogue.  you have today and tomorrow.  to fill in the bottle.