Symmetry

Symmetry:

my aim is symmetry, a sense of beauty to the page through words and their arrangement-  that emptiness plays key to this, backdrop to every phrase, providing meaning to each word. Everything belongs just so, precise, and yet could easily be rearranged and give a similar point of view. The message itself should always remain the same. 

this is the elegance of writing, the equal importance of space and meaning, how words arrive spontaneously and free, playing as a phrase across the page. There is great and simply pleasure in my sense of being part of this, equal too in my belonging. 

symmetry, all.

grace too plays no small role - every word is received from nothingness, truly, that just before anything reaches mind and page there is simply patience, a faith that emptiness provides its own fulfillment. There is never a search for words. 

so meaning comes last, yet if there's any order at all it's by chance. Every word given is a surprise, a gift, and then I have the endless emptiness of the page on which to play. My aim is symmetry, to honor words and spaciousness by arrangement. Any meaning or general theme seems to happen on its own. The page provides such room, such largeness, infinite in its allowing of mistake and pleasure, a joyful surrender to whatever comes written. 

even symmetry happens on its own.

my only role is of surrender. 

~

Peace, Eric