To Be Blind

Portrait of A.S.J. Tessimond
A.S.J. Tessimond 1902–1962

Is it sounds converging, Sounds nearing, Infringement, impingement, Impact, contact With surfaces of the sounds Or surfaces without the sounds: Diagrams, skeletal, strange?

Is it winds curling round invisible corners? Polyphony of perfumes? Antennae discovering an axis, erecting the architecture of a world?

Is it orchestration of the finger-tips, graph of a fugue: Scaffold for colours: colour itself being god?

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