Today there is a problem,

so I stay inside,

aimlessly drifting

from room to room,

thought to thought,

as Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar

tickles his rudra-veena

into a cobra's

billowing and swaying

and a cat's voluptuous purring

in Raga Pancham Kosh's

dhrupad style,

the infra sounds from heavy trucks

outside L'église Notre Dame du Liban

in Paris

finding their way into l'enregistrement

like a greeting across the ocean from John Cage

I stay here with a problem,

which is a corporeal memory

of heavy objects,

but I need an exercise-free day

anyway,

seeing everything mix

with the onslaught of eternity

and the trucks of Paris

that night in 1987

during the durée totale