"In a sense" : sonic phenomena, temporal scale and ecological encounter in Martin Harrison's "White-tailed deer"

Happiness is not a metaphor. But metaphors keep the memory of happiness. They redirect us – transport us – to instances of feeling that cohere a-chronically into an extended present of joy, an ontological state that can feel curiously outside of time, or at least, dislocated from temporal coordinates. “More and more”, writes Martin Harrison in the poem “Paris” from Happiness, “music brought about the arrival of present time duhhhh / like the whole ensemble was a weather pattern more intense / than real rain hitting tin”. More intense than real rain. More and more music brought about.