Scott-Patrick Mitchell (SPM) is a West Australian performance poet. SPM's poetry appears in Out Of The Box: Contemporary Australian Gay & Lesbian Poets, Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, Contemporary Australian Poetry and The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry. In 2017, SPM’s debut collection, Vade Mecum, will be published through Hawkline Press. Visit www.facebook.com/
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1. concerto
with eyes closed
what
are the sounds
that
makde this a poem
if
you close your eyes
will
you still typppepeee
the
same sooiioooooound
s
thwne
then
that is ewhat you say
aty
aya aya
what
we say is this
we
have our eyes
closed
closed
when
we write this pooooem
we
capture the sounds as if
we
a re
are
are
are
blind
but
the sound
ti
speaks in our hgead
and
i tyope
not
knowing
what
the keys said
thjeu
said
tjeu
saod
keuyboard
becomes a piano
Oh
no oh no
piano
of words that berb
up
the throat of fingers
qjem
2uhq5 lint34w iw
and
what liungers is what a singer
singer
sinder says
wjat
we saod wjat we read wjat
we
we
w
e
we
i
am now blind
and
if find that what
my
mind hears
is
different to what
appears
a
peers
a
pier
appear
as a poem
and
let the words write the night
i
a, a k night
\iu
am only po0llen
i
sa,
blind
leading the blind
i
am i am ai m
with
eyes closed what
a
poem knows is that the verb
can
grow and
to
write this poem
is
a go
when
i have finished
with
this i shall open
my
i’s
my
i shall spy
when
i open my eyes i am
i
say
his to your mmhym from
me
me
m,e
poem.
go slowluy
into
the night
into
the light
into
the sight
poem
go oh oh oh oh oh
***from The Aesthetics of Library Science
2. Identification signs
orient user
tell him he has reached his destination
. under this heading include
external signs
(those identifying the library
, the main entrance
, the car park
) internal signs
primary & secondary
destinations
. storage units
. individual stock items
. several visually distinct
levels
. severed dead ends track
back to points of origin
. no one ever gets lost
, often
***
3. directories
occupying several floors
will be necessary to
display a directory
. just inside the main entrance
the total number of destinations
is an alphabetical listing
: approach often
. the number of destinations less
appropriate floor by door
. directional signs alone
may depend on exact situation
. larger, the directory is chief
, guides user to correct pore for
whole relevant parties
repeated on arrival
building
science
4. Internal signs
ideally signs would screen photographic
prints on plastic-based paper wall hanging
less durable
as economy measure
. photographic prints
temporary the internal
.