**DIRECTIONS**

GRADE I

04-26-02

Four days to make The Grade --
As in life not enough time
Or is it energy missing?
Space?
Will?
The way?
Is that how Lao Tze got to
The Tao?
The World Starts At The Green Flower

GRADE II

04-26-02

How do I get to the Tao?
Up the grade? Up the hill?
Steep grade
Up up up
Tao up tao up tao up
Grade I
II
III
Curl Into Life At the Bodhi Leaf

GRADE III

04-26-02

A low grade fever is like
A shallow grave
A petty hill
Coasting
Down down down
Spill the grades
All over
The ground
Before Gowen's Tower

GRADE IV

04-26-02

Step up, hear the grade
Rank the quality
Class, person
"Also, a hybrid animal"
Cow
Sheep
Bull
Degree of inclination
From The Blue Tower Eye To The Sky

GRADE V

04-26-02

A road, a railroad
Rate of ascent
Descent
Arrange in a series
Degrade
Scale, rescale
Process, progress
Graded gradually
While Saraswati Strums Her Veena

GRADE VI

04-26-02

Gradate
To pass by insensible
Degrees
One color to another
Color
Step by step
Gradation
Up to Grade
Around The Disquisition Of The Eight

GRADE IX

04-26-02

Enough is enough
Is enough is enough
Whew!
Making The Grade
Is
Amazing
Nothingness
Rule me in
To Green Tower's Veil, Sun and Moon

GRADES, I through IX, An Accumulation
Mixed Media: wood, glass, paper, poems, jewels, leaves, paint, found objects, glue, thread
Dimensions: 6 1/8 x 6 1/8"

**DIRECTIONS**
Dimensions: 2 x 2 1/2", Twenty Pages, Nine Poems, Two Images

Copyright © 2002 Jan Haag
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Revised 07-16-07

Jan Haag may be reached via e-mail: jhaag@u.washington.edu

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CAST

BY JAN HAAG

ART & POETRY - ACCUMULATIONS

POETRY + MUSIC + ESSAYS + TRAVEL + FICTION + TEXTILE ART

INTRODUCTION + HAAG'S BIO

21st CENTURY ART, C.E. - B.C., A Context