Breaking broken gestures
OoRS
Gesture of a particular view
Gesture of contortion
Gesture of meaning pressed against the body like pressing a balloon
Gesture of detecting a pre-existing edge already in place
Gesture of self-injury
Gestures of stereotypy
Gesture of body that is not thinking of itself
Gesture of aversion
Gesture of non-committal action
Gesture of erosion
Breaking broken gesture
Gestures that are parts of games
Breaking open gesture
Gestures of rerouting /
interruption
Hand is a thread gesture
Recalls loss gesture
Private communiqué
gesture
Fixed gesture
Gesture
of
the
ingenue
Gesture
of earthbound
selfhood
Direct gaze as gesture
Sidelong gaze as gesture
Gesture toward sensation of
gesturing
Gesture beyond its boundary
Infinite gesture
Gesture of friendly
approach
Gesture of opening
Gesture of egg shells,
bringing hands together
in one’s
lap, in an unconscious
mimicry
of
Gesture of
a child waiting for a lesson
Gesture of
stuffing meat in
Gesture of
cracking open
Gesture of
exploration
Gesture of noncommittal action
Gesture of the ‘no’.
Gesture of the ‘yes’
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Breaking broken gestures
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Gesture of clumsy, private burlesque at the end of the day. Gesture
of disillusionment
Gesture of suspicious movement
A gesture, with slight variation, that recurs four times
Gestures of subtle marrow
Gesture of unmitigated glory
Gesture of averting shame
Gesture of surrendering presence and agency
Gesture of triangulated desire
Gesture of tilting to hear the breeze
Gesture of washing yourself of crime
Gesture of washing yourself if you are an animal-animal
Gesture of holding out the remote
Gesture of gazing at the remote
Gesture of seeking the remote
Gesture of realizing the remote
exists in you already
Gesture that states “i don’t
have to”
Entering force field
gesture
Frustrated
spatial
gesture
(limits of
the body
discovery
gesture)
Attempt,
something
Gesture next to a
Gesture of not
letter
Gesture of writing the unsendable letter
Gesture of archiving the unsent letter
Strength gestures
Gesture of the falling foot
Gesture of contorting to adjust
Gesture of slaking a long-felt thirst
Gesture of resisting sleep
Gesture of owning one’s breath
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or trying
gestures
highway
sending a
Breaking broken gestures
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Gesture of realizing a terrible blunder
Simple gestures of morning
Gesture of seeing the egg upright in its cup
Gesture of eyes closing to sunlight
Gesture of leaning against a column, waiting
Gesture of holding up a hand as if it can
make the bus stop
Gesture of
futilely attempting to
block sound
Gesture of re-entry
problems
Gesture of torpidity
Gesture of atlas
Gesture of atlantis
Gesture of dangling
senses
Gesture of looking for
something one doesn’t
know one is looking for
Gesture of seeing as a
sudden intrusion
Gesture of the too porous open
eye
Gesture of one can be broken into as one moves out of oneself
through the gaze, trespassing one’s own eye, towards the other
One is invisible--not flesh--as a voyeur
Gesture of impenetrability of the given (laden) surface
Gesture of meaning cannot be pressed out of the body like oil
Gesture of looking into the car window that is threatening
Gesture of standing up in the grass next to the highway
Gesture of striking two things together like flint, merging sliding
in order to open or pry apart…prying apart is so close to opening
gesture
Gesture of looking upward for absolution or deliverance
Gesture of running inside one’s mind while remaining fixed in
physical space
Gesture of willful ignorance
Gesture of generous surrender
Gesture of sublimated yearning causing a bitter lashing out
Gesture of nothing
Gesture of incompatibility but then
Gesture of a smudge becoming a spot
Gesture of a smear of gestures becoming an arrow
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Breaking broken gestures
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Gestures of escape
Gestures of atlantis cannot happen when one is not walking
somewhere
Gesture of walking towards the thing that is
probably not atlantis
Gesture of false starts
Gesture of a dead end
Gesture of being out of sight
Gesture of dejection as static
Gesture of denial as a form of
enclosure
Gesture of not recognizing a
face
Gesture of pretending to
admit something
Gesture of refusal as refuge
Gesture of a dead end
pantomime
Gestures that never finish
themselves
Gesture of mobile
community
Self-contained gesture
Not looking outward gesture
Gesture of not stumbling nor
encountering surprise: gesture
of knowing
Collecting-your-abundance
gesture
No danger gesture
Adding rather than
subtracting gesture: no more
negative definitions
Gesture of noticing, stutters
as if to go towards the thing
but goes down the stairs
Down the stairs gesture
Stumbling across a plain of
gestures
Gestures of the wall-less status of
seeing
Revolving gesture around eye that
rolls away gesture
Serious lab work gesture
No no no not you or you gesture
Gesture of not wanting to want
gesture—family
of hungry gestures eating itself
Holding gesture, holds and releases by
holding—
carrying gesture made while striding
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Breaking broken gestures
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Gestures of pride
Gesture of the butterfly clamp—a gesture of chaos, flight and the
thing that lands and stings—the thing that bothers you gets born
across your lips
Fickle agitation
The gesture of acknowledging that the body is vulnerable when
imagining the world differently
A chair, the arbitrary frame of things.
I am violent against the border. In
the mundane fiber, i throw off my
shoe, as in a marketplace of stiff
substitutions in which one
dreams
Gesture of
integration wreck
Finding yourself in a dream at
the moment you are leaving it
gestures
For there to be “direction,”
for angles to be made,
disparate objects slap to
form a single surge away
from the original landscape,
the first point of origin.
After the miniature crash, a
particular view is gaged—
this
is the shape of choice, the
aggression of precision
Aspirational
gestures
Gesture of acting out
Gesture of realizing one is not at home
Gesture of acute ligatures
Gesture of being disappointed by one’s own body gesture of
derailment
Gesture of slamming into oneself in a mirror, and the mirror
shattering, so that one’s image disperses
Gesture of humor
Gesture of grace
A gesture that revolves
Gesture of not going loosely along the lines
Gesture of something soft pretending to be hard
Gesture of locating a direction
Gesture of expressive matter detaching brusquely from the original
landscape
Gesture propelled by rage
Gesture of imagining the world
Gesture of talking to self
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Breaking broken gestures
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Gesture of the familiar strange
Gesture of the aftermath of a miniature crash
Gesture of pride
The gesture of a body that is not thinking of itself
Gesture of a particular view
Gesture of precision
Gesture of slamming into oneself in a
mirror, and the
mirror shattering, so that one’s image
disperses
I want to show you
Gesture of double looking
Gesture of contortion
Can i eat my
gesture?
Gesture of
meaning pressed
against the
body like pressing
a balloon
Riding the
motion of gestures
like a wave
Gesture of waiting
to be interrupted
Interrupting
gesture
Gestures of
forgetting
Gesture
of staring into space!
Oh this
gesture is very strange
Hair gesture—
gesture made by hair
Gesture of the extra
limb
Gesture of an
extension of exteriority
to meet the insides of a
new body
Gesture of substituting
membranes
Gesture of contact with
rubber
Gesture resembling a
shift in tone
Gesture of
an old gesture
Gesture of strings of awe
Shaping the space you are in gestures
Acting like you are not already caught gesture
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Breaking broken gestures
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Moving
like you will
you will
gestures
Gesture
now
caught
Gesture
chair
the chair
Gesture
private
Gesture
Gesture
hiding
hovers
not be caught gestures
Assuming that
be caught
of can not
or ever get
of not knowing whether the
in one’s bedroom is the same
as
in one’s office at work
of realizing that the public and the
spheres are collapsed structures
of invisible schizophrenia
of a displaced emotion
Gesture of disrupting a contained gesture
Gesture of not putting oneself in a position of
Gesture of not fitting into the space of evening
Gesture of miniature rage
Gesture of a forced imbalance
Gesture of touching without touching and
humming in order to do it—where the hummer
“Dumb” object reading us as its destination and
rolls
back on itself humming gesture
Gesture of noticing, stutters as if to go towards the
thing going downstairs
Down the stairs gesture
Not this not this not this
Through refusals (borders, reinforcements of fences, brinks, brims)
We find definition—the refugee is vague and invisible—porousness
is contagiousness—stacked membranes like a cloth, not to get
enmeshed
Gesturing through refusals (borders, reinforcements of fences,
brinks, brims)
Gesture: the hands fidget like slow-blowing underwater weeds, their
electric filaments on hair. Wrenched, the
head stops.
Impenetrability of the given (laden)
surface
Surface gestures
Gestures not legible, but
touchable
Gestures of resisting gesture
Gesture of improvising
Gesture of getting personal
in front of an audience
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Breaking broken gestures
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Gesture
not going
lines of something
pretending to be hard
of
loosely along the
Gesture of something soft
Gesture of locating a direction
Gesture of bashing angles
Gesture of odd slates
slapping
Gesture of forming a
single surge
Gesture of expressive
matter
detaching brusquely
from the
original landscape
Gestures of
elevation,
lightness and levity
Gesture of
the aftermath of
a
miniature crash
This is a chair,
the
arbitrary frame of things
Violent against the
border
In the mundane
fiber,
i throw off my shoe,
as
in a marketplace of
stiff
substitutions in which one
dreams
Gesture Of A Stark
Removal
Gesture Of A Cold Retreat
So As To
Recuperate A Palpable Sense
Of What
One Has Retreated From
Gesture Of A Fault In The
Stretch Of
Prompt Language
Gesture Of A Smudge Becoming A
Spot
Gesture Of A Smear Of Gestures
Becoming An Arrow
Gesture Of False Starts
Gesture Of Lying To Oneself
Gesture Of A Dead End
Gesture Of Being Out Of Sight
Gesture Of Dejection As Static
Gesture Of Denial As A Form Of Enclosure
Gesture Of Not Recognizing A Face
Gesture Of
Pretending To Admit Something
Gesture Of
Refusal As Refuge
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