The texts on six of the seven tracks on T.U. and Lori Goldston's album "Oakland moments" come from rice-paper paintings by T.U. The seventh (and last) originally appeared in a book in honor of the 50th anniversary of the published debut of the Danish poet Asger Schnack.

Below are the texts and the source paintings. (Titles are for the tracks only; the paintings are untitled.)

(Track 1: elements of play)

take
earth,
the gracious
shelter,
firmest

floor, from

where
the foot
leaps up and
shoulders
pair in

fluid circulation

above
the bellows
of the speeding
breath: take
every

element of
space, re-
turn them
into

nothingness
and play

(Track 2: through the waves)

a
leaning
into
readiness, a
firming
up (and
down)

still light

entering
flow, the
movement
slowly
burning
its path

through
breath,
through

the waves
of wind
into

what comes

(Track 3: unfolding ways)

to
play
unholding
the habits
of
warfare

to
play
unveiling
some ways
of
the wayless

to
play
unfolding
a learning
of
play

(Track 4: living on the rope)

as
nietzsche
said
to
the rope
dancer

‘you’ve
made
danger
your
vocation’

to
live
up
to that

to
leap
into
that

(Track 5: lunacies included)

when
the
ball
comes

to
play it
with
your

prick,
your cunt
and
womb

to
play
it
with your
stomach,
solar

plexus,
heart and
so on
up

to
play it
with your
lunacy, the
sky,
the limit-
less

and
so

(Track 6: vastness, no ground)

where
should the ball be placed?

   and the buddha
   said: ‘in the invisible, in-
   finite, all-radiant consciousness
   there neither earth nor water,
   neither fire nor air, can find
   a footing.’

therefore
the ball should go to the spot
where not even a buddha
can find a footing

(Track 7: dice of play, slice of pizza)

We’ve heard it
often, the word
coming from Albert
Einstein, if he’s quoted
correctly: God doesn’t play
dice,
and it seems reasonable
enough, maybe it’s
the way it is,
that many lives would of course
be shattered
and therefore it might well
be bad form, not to say
kind of offensive,
to bring it up here
and say, suppose,
suppose
God had read some of that
Mallarmé stuff
or Bohr
or Bohm, or say
God had seen that Dylan moment
at Newport, where Dylan asks
if there’s anyone in the crowd
that can loan him
a harmonica, and someone
throws one to him, and God had seen
that moving moment, maybe on film,
and God had been tempted for a moment
for someone to throw him a harmonica,
just for a moment, or if
God had heard about how
the Pope had said something about
looking forward to the day
where he could maybe sneak out
and catch a piece of pizza, maybe
just a slice, and is it possible
that there could be just that moment
of temptation,
where God would be thinking
of linking up with Mallarmé, or
go it alone,
and just ask if there’s someone
out there that would loan him
a couple of dice,
just for a throw or two, no
more, just a couple