ELEVEN ELEVEN ELEVEN—

XI XI XI—
111111—

When I was eleven,
my friends and I
would knot different colors
of embroidery thread
and make friendship or truce
bracelets that would
sometimes comprise

arrows – >>>
Eventually I learned
to reverse
the arrows – (<<<) We would alternate rows making more complex designs like >>X<<
We became obsessed
with Xs
making several in
a row – XXX
when placing 3 in a row,
it was
2 fish
k-i-s-s-i-n-g.

Sometimes
the fundamental slant – /
was enough
and after several
rows
of
these – ///
we began to tell a story
as yarn to scarf / as munitions belt
bullet to bullet
– shells

This repeated pattern is
elevens
over and over
again
Parallels
//
At the eleventh hour
on the eleventh day
of the eleventh month*

This day, originally, was called
Armistice day
referring to the aforementioned
eleventh hour
to remember the day Germany
had agreed to hush
WWI
for a time
to allow peace
to settle after
WWII
to observe peace
on that day was backward
exclusive of those who fought in
WWII
or Korea
or Vietnam
Therefore, the holiday
became a day
to remember
20,000,000

who died throughout
the course of these wars,
calling it
Veteran’s day


it then became a tradition
to observe
2 minutes
of
silence –


to remember
20 million –
dead
but in 1939,
this
“2-minute moment”
was bumped
to the nearest Sunday
to the eleventh
in order to avoid
interference with war
time production,
however,
some still
observe silence
on the 11th day
at the 11th hour.

some do not
have a choice,
but to remain
silent.













*(and eventually we’ll pass
the two thousand and
eleventh year,
approx. 39 days and 1 year
until the end of the world –
i.e. 11/11/11
i.e. 404 days
from
12.20.2012—
According to Mayan prophecy
11-11-11
is the holiday
in which we observe the end
of
WW IV)


Lia Ha//