Delezuian Erasure Haiku Vol. 2

A Thousand Plateaus of Poems: Pages 7-11

Erasing Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari’s metaphysical classic A Thousand Plateaus page by page, until only tanka and haiku remain. Follow Deleuzian Haiku on BlueSky for regular updates.

“All multiplicities are flat, in the sense that they fill or occupy all of their dimensions: we will therefore speak of a plane of consistency of multiplicities. The plane of consistency is the outside of all multiplicities. The line of flight marks the reality of a finite number of dimensions that the multiplicity effectively fills, [while] flattening all of the multiplicities on a single plane of consistency, regardless of their number of dimensions.” (D&G, p9)

   
          #10

       doctrina angelici:

       the only way one belongs
       to the multiple,
       always subtracted—

       life is a rhizome
   

   
          #11

       crabgrass
       between signs & objects . . .
       the river
   

   
          #12

       first dichotomy . . .
       fields and train tracks
       spread like oil
   

   
          #13

       rats swarm—

       any point of a rhizome
       can be connected
       to any other,

       and must be
   

   
          #14

       undifferentiated . . .
       the activity of weavers
       speeds up
   

   
          #15

       weave! weave!
       proliferate in an empty
       dimension
   

   
          #16

       speak:
       transformed by a line
       of ants
   

   
          #17

       couchgrass:
       constantly fleeing
       from fascists
   

   
          #18

       microfascisms
       just waiting to crystallize . . .
       i become cat
   
     

A miscellany of poems, pictures, and songs by Dick Whyte, editor of Forgotten Poets and Forgotten Press . . .

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