1ST POEM: Reflections on the Physiology of Consciousness 

	seed
	of power
	awake to the mom
	ent without th
	ought of fut
	ure possibilities -
	a simple fetus resting
	in warm amniotic flu
	id like an astronaut
	on a spacewalk
	tethered to a throbbing st
	ring floating
	in a sea wit
	hout gravity - jus
	sst heart beat . . .
	heart beat . . .
	heart be
	at . . . 


Ron:   (sipping some wine) Spacey, huh?

Lis:   You can almost feel a proto-human brain at work: core hardware without much programming.

Linda: Interesting how people liken their minds to computers.

Ron:   (frowning a bit) I dunno. The art work looks like a sliced egg & poem seems puerile.

Lex:   To me it suggests raw sensation without thought.

Ron:   No poem is needed to experience that: six bottles of beer will do.

Linda: What we call 'abstract thinking' is like the surface of a road with many layers 
       underneath . . . this work illustrates a few of those layers.



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from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  A proto-poem, image, and discussion about pre-birth experiences, the digitalization of consciousness, and beer.
KEYWORDS: pre-birth awareness, proto-poetry, cocktail conversations, poetic critiques

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - )
Begun: 1996 in Shizuoka, Japan ✠ Finished: 2017 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}}  

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