page

-It's only on the page that poetry can happen now, can be happening in the present.

-The page talks back.

-It's only on the page as page that I can act on the word as such that I can react that we can react we can act only on the page as page***** that I we.

"Collage art [the page] ...has embodied...contradictions and indeed has become the key artistic process not in understanding the world, now an impossibility, but in interacting with it so as to change it." Harry Polkinhorn, "Space craft: collage discourse," in Collage: critical views, Ann Arbor, UMI Research Press, 1989, p. 221.

-The page is always becoming.******

Gloom, who needs it?