Creation is a problem of duality. That is, for us, “to create” is to both reflect and to project at the same time— to reflect some inner, higher truth, and then project it outward beyond oneself. Whatever thing that is projected is, inevitably, heartbreakingly, different and forever separate from the hand that generated it, and from the truth or thought or essence that originated it. To “create” (which is always, ultimately, an act of imitation), the wind must move over the face of the waters, and reflect. I have, however, wondered if there are other methods that one might use to bring worlds into being, and here are a few:
Chase: The impulse to chase follows a flung ball so closely it might almost precede it, and in the space that tumbles forth between hand and orb, a world rushes in.
Block: There is no perception of darkness or light until a branch’s twigs tremble and sway into the interzone, and craze the deep with angles that begin to trace a world.
Wipe: An involuntary irritation sparks a toss, a smear, a scratch, and by the time one settles back it is onto a world.
Accrete: Gradually over time one leaves traces, evidence invisible to sight, and though the void may not have sense of mass or volume yet by virtue of one’s presence it is not endless, and accumulation proceeds in spite of itself, until enough is present for a world.
Pressure: When whatever inner truth and whatever generative force grind too closely against each other, a diamond of a world is formed and jettisoned into being.
Shock: As an abrupt offense locks metal into a lattice, so an initial perturbation reverberates continually, snapping the structure of a world together.
Grope: An entire world created in trying to remember the word one wanted to say, how one wanted to begin, the real start one had in mind, and the world is made in the rummaging.
Sigh: In sleep, a turnover, a sigh, a settle: the breath becomes a world.
Slip: Seeing oneself not in the glass but through it, already on the other side, and when one moves one sees it is not a reflection at all: thereby a world is made.