Blue thinks itself within me

Preface Chapter 1. The Dark Mountain Fire Season The dark depression Kiaw, kiaw, kiaw Toward the dark sweet Chapter 2. Aperture Openings Aperture Oldgrowth specklebelly lichen Roadside, Ada'itsx / Fairy Creek Cobalt / Supply chains Radical attunement and the lyric poem Chapter 3. Co-making Nestwork Snail shell What is it like to be a tree? Poem as made (of) thing(s) Chapbook Fascicules Making Introductions for co-making this world Chapter 4. Vigilance Ground of our being in the world Grandmother Tree, Grandfather Tree Tsawalk La vide / emptying Chapter 5. Poems like Miebach sculptures The Burden of Every Drop Fieldnotes Poems like Miebach sculptures What will I carry in my backpack? Sympoiesis (making-with) Oldgrowth specklebelly lichen-Lichenous forms Chapter 6. Piiiiittuuu | Song kin Umwelt Songs of the humpback whale Biosonification Acousteme What do they call themselves? Eye yields at a distance, sound gathers within What we do not perceive, we do not know Qualia Chapter 7. Blue thinks itself within me Inchworm Ecart | Mind the gap Descartes | Ghost in the machine Kant | Das Ding an Sich (The Thing in Itself) Heidegger | Das Ding an Sich (The Thing in Itself) Merleau-Ponty | Le chiasme, la chair (Chiasm, flesh) Levinas | Alterity of sound OOO | Mutual darkness Ortega y Gasset | La celula bella (The beautiful cell) Panpsychism | Rainforest teaming with consciousness Postscript: Some notes on an oldgrowth specklebelly lichen poem Acknowledgements Bibliography