Delezuian Erasure Poems Vol. 1

A Thousand Plateaus of Poems: Pages 3-6

A new project in which I plan to create 1000 erasure poems—drawing on haikai and haiku poetic sensibilities—from Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari’s metaphysical classic, A Thousand Plateaus (tr. Brian Masumi, 1987). Follow Deleuzian Haiku on BlueSky for regular updates.

“The only way the one belongs to the multiple: always subtracted. Subtract the unique from the multiplicity to be constituted… A system of this kind could be called a rhizome.” (D&G, p6)

    
          #1

       A Thousand Plateaus—
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          #2

      sunrise,
      a manner of speaking
      to gods
    

    
          #3

      multiplied
      a book
      became a plant—
      literature
      an animal
    

    
          #4

      a tree is already
      the oldest
      kind
      of thought—

      endless sky
    

    
          #5

      surrounding leaves—

      one becomes two
      becomes
      three, four, five

      indefinitely flourishing
    

    
          #6

      mapping the tree
      thought lags behind nature . . .

            & yet

                    & yet
    

    
          #7

      chaosmos
      rather than cosmos . . .
      the cry of a rat
    

    
          #8

      spirituality
      demands spiritual labor:
      grow plants
    

    
          #9

      secret method: be kind to animals
    
    

Vespers

Poems by Dick Whyte, and other miscellanea. Explore the archive . . .