Today there is a problem,
so I stay inside,
aimlessly drifting
from room to room,
thought to thought,
as Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
tickles his rudra-veena
into a cobra's
billowing and swaying
and a cat's voluptuous purring
in Raga Pancham Kosh's
dhrupad style,
the infra sounds from heavy trucks
outside L'église Notre Dame du Liban
in Paris
finding their way into l'enregistrement
like a greeting across the ocean from John Cage

I stay here with a problem,
which is a corporeal memory
of heavy objects,
but I need an exercise-free day
anyway,
seeing everything mix
with the onslaught of eternity
and the trucks of Paris
that night in 1987
during the durée totale