James Van Looy’s work
It’s All One Thing #42: Stone Soup Moving Company
The Moving man who moves from here to there, ah, yes there where all the matter becomes all the energy. How strange to live in an age when the Humanists [...]
It’s All One Thing #41: Labyrinth as Toxic Filter
They hold the door open and delay the train so they can get on together and proceed to yell in my ear saying things like “Hey, like you know you [...]
It’s All One Thing #40: The Sun Has Not Set
for Adeline Carter Van Looy The sun has not set; the great blue bulb sky and its frosted peaks this earthen mother ball has simply turned beneath this constant light [...]
It’s All One Thing #39: Synchronicity Strikes Again
I’m sitting in what I call the Dayroom, the large community space open area where the T.V. and VCR live as I talk to this young Boston College graduate student [...]
It’s All One Thing #38: Welcome to the Analogue Antidote to the Digital Daze
That is days as in “days of our lives” (and daze as in he was in a daze) and he went back to whence he came and we are all [...]
It’s All One Thing #37: Labyrinth as Test Screen Pattern
There was the proverbial man who awoke still watching the TEST SCREEN PATTERN in the dark still cocoon of middle night: The test screen that came for CONELRAD* with this [...]
It’s All One Thing #36: We’re All Naked. They Have Impunity.
Sunday and just like the old days I’m not going anywhere, sirens go by outside in the distance but I am quiet within and take the whole day to sleep [...]
It’s All One Thing #35: The Bleeding Heart of America
Out the porch door window the violent heart of America bleeds into the pink sky. I know these beating chambers where a place becomes a way of life called something [...]
It’s All One Thing #34: Satan in Lower Slower
Wake up early in the morning to the gigantic sound of the tiny biplane only one hundred yards away about twelve feet off the ground oozing pesticide plopping down on [...]
It’s All One Thing #33: This Summer
This Summer, this Summer when cathedral skies slip past noon and capitol domes resound with parched tongues like dry leaves of lawn in the dewless, clueless morn of something that [...]
It’s All One Thing #32: Labyrinth as Ball Joint
First it was the left shoulder which apparently developed a crick from swinging from the sun porch door frame that slowly got so bad I couldn’t manage to get my [...]
It’s All One Thing #31: The Black Cats
It was the first time I saw a ‘Mohawk’ haircut. They were strolling down the choppy sidewalk next to the row of trees beside the truck route in front of [...]
It’s All One Thing #30: A Haiku Steam for Jack after the St. Francis Workshop
The hawk hardly flaps a wing as the crow pecks up from below above All tender tendrils leaves open at once blossoms and the dark wet Earth The weight of [...]
It’s All One MORE Thing: Stone Soup
When I first moved to Beantown I lived on South Russell St . at the base of the poor side of Beacon Hill so it was right down Cambridge Street [...]
It’s All One Thing #29: Cosmic Spelunkers of the Labyrinth Body
Oh, God, oh Gawd we’re in deep trouble now who has never swum against that current who has never been sucked down by the suction of the clinging muck deeper [...]
It’s All One Thing #28: Angels and Animals
It’s not as if animals can’t have wings or that angels never indulge in fling. Bats and squirrels embark on brave flight; men see angels in the midst of the [...]
It’s All One Thing #27: Tex Mullen’s Classic Polish Nurse Vs. Himmler’s Lust for Polish Children
It was one of those things you never knew why you did them but I sat down by Tex even though I could see he was in his cups and thinking [...]
It’s All One Thing #26: Memorial Labyrinth
Jack Powers, in the form of an urn all dark and wonder colored which somehow still contained his ashes, fell upon the stage floor and then his portrait seemingly in [...]
It’s All One Thing #25: The Vega Plant, Lordstown, Ohio 1971
It mattered to some people where they found a place to put their car because it had the Pacific Ocean of black tar parking lots. Personally, I enjoyed the walk before [...]
It’s All One Thing #24: We’ve Seen the Cross Now Where’s the Body
The axis of the world is a forgotten weathervane and the Tree of Life belongs to Harvard. They keep it in the arboretum. Jesus got lost in the fundamentals. Again, the [...]
It’s All One Thing #23: Why I Hate Cars II
The whoosh of nylon on concrete slowly rising to oppressive roar from the trench along the coast wakes me almost every morning gradually over- whelming my dreams so they are often [...]
It’s All One Thing #22: Why I Hate Cars
What a disgusting blob in the pit of my gastro-intestinal when Dad allowed Big Bro John to unpark our brand new Belaire after the stain glass choir of 1st Presbyterian Church [...]
It’s All One Thing #21: Three Pennies
The very first time I threw those three flashing coins they fell a broken line at the beginning and the top and four solid lines between to become the dreaded I [...]
It’s All One Thing #20: Empire
The weakness of the empire, the weakness of any empire is always its greatest strength: the success of its chosen lifestyle at the time of its assumption of imperial power which [...]
It’s All One Thing #19 Mime for the Blind (A Pedagogic Exercise)
Once the head moves without the neck it all flows down the spine electricity down the line to the ground Neck without bust bust without waist waist without pelvis pelvis without [...]