"The present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space. We are in the epoch of simultaneity: we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed." (Foucault, "Heterotopias")


perform a continuous utterance:
over a space, she clarified

recite the lyric
quality

that is

simultaneous
circles drawn in pencil
on a white board

contingent
or history laid out
on a table of elements:
artifacts, debris, fragments

each piece a present
intervention
between past
future

an ensemble of relations

proximity site grid
real unreal virtual

in the cemetery both
alive and dead
the illicit meeting
contained and
secret

time sliced into
pieces
laid out across

a horizon
at once moving forward
standing
still