Out of Name

OUT OF NAME - (or WITHOUT NAME)

- written to be free sung

* * *

We know
No names here
Desert needs
No name

We know
No name here
So who
Is here?


* * *

Space love
All surround
Tower of stone

We know
Nothing.

* * *

Castle grain
Failing, falling

Turret rocks
Taken, taken
No names

* * *

Cave and crevasse
Dry watercourse
Empty cascade.

We have
No names

* * *

Shake old tabletops
Blow atlas clean
Away.

We have
No names.

* * *

Pillars fall
Break away
Dissolve

Jump-Ups
Strip by piece
What was there

Break-Aways
Scatter out
Into space

We have
No word
Before name.

* * *

Ancient
Ancient Space
Ancient of Days
Waiting.

Ancient
Ancient of Moons
Ancient of Years
Waiting

Ancient of eons
Waiting waiting
No past here
Now alone.

* * *

What place
Names here?

We wait where
We will be

We wait who
We will be.

* * *

Windpushed sand
Rolls another grain.

Stone flakes off
Hot cliff face -dust.

We have no names here
We need no....

* * *

Apparent nothing
Apparent emptiness

Apparent absence
We wait apparent,

We wait
Nameless

We wait who
we will be.


***
- August 1995,
in the mesa hills, Barrow Creek district, Northern Territory



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Compact Version



OUT OF NAME - (or WITHOUT NAME)

- written to be free sung

* * *

We know no names here
Desert needs no name

We know no name here
So who is here?

Space love, All surround. Tower of stone
We know, Nothing.

Castle grain. Falling, falling
Turret rocks. Taken, taken
No names

Cave and crevasse
Dry watercourse
Empty cascade.

We have no names

Shake old tabletops
Blow atlas clean away.
We have no names.

Pillars fall. Break away. Dissolve
Jump-Ups, Strip by piece What was there
=Break-Aways. Scatter out. Into space
We have no word before name.


Ancient, Ancient Space,
Ancient of Days, Waiting.
Ancient, Ancient of Moons
Ancient of Years, Waiting

Ancient of eons, Waiting waiting
No past here now alone.

What place names here?
We wait where we will be
We wait who we will be.

Windpushed sand rolls another grain.
Stone flakes off hot cliff face -dust.
We have no names here, we need no....

Apparent nothing, Apparent emptiness
Apparent absence, we wait apparent,

We wait Nameless
We wait who we will be.


***
- August 1995,
in the mesa hills, Barrow Creek district, Northern Territory