from (Conference)
Flight and love are pure before, with
no possible after. Without any after,
there is no during either. Because I can't
last, because my nature is damage,
I'm not so easily hurt. Because air is
for a long time, it's the opposite. Unless
the great part of me is air. Unless even
water is, perhaps.
Soul'soul.
Place the Sun Drenched (Blind Folds) Destruction Notes
Waiting nurses trellised in roses stand
near a front-stitched man.
Children dribble shovel-fulls
of dirt over him. Another man,
nearby, pees. On the proscenium
a lady descends, purse in hand.
A man holds an old woman. A girl
sits, strapped to the electric chair.
Her surface glistens its buttery
skins. An atmospheric bear
bludgeons Sleeping Beauty
where patty-cakes were.
On the same oak tree, leaves
emit sphinxes. Carving knife.
"You are the patient. I am the real person," says Queen Elisabeth to her subject. Surgeon has a charley horse. Meanwhile, she pukes; cinematic embrace frames. Below a tree, pear now, pears turning cameo, a lashed lady thinks (or contemplates):
"I'm a turkey dreamscape." Domestic:
Ripe eggplant spills where a woman models for unseen knife-throwers. A man unbuttons her shirt later; another man combs another woman's hair, slowly, from the crown. Another man's suit is too big; boat-like. The Wedding March drones then. Tickle the poodle. Gratify the lion. Gag guests.
The blue child's portrait is nearly transparent now. Pinstriped, the human-chomping gangster nestles in her. A woman in a fur coat and hat looks on. Remember to spray daddy. Geld pancakes. Jaguar girl crocused under a fellatio bubble. Angels point rifles. Steady with that drill now.
This is war and unstopping: collection of days, all in a row. Mercenaries. The sweet smell of sage. Can't someone untie us?
We were trying to kiss when our faces turned to beaks. A firing squad was or wore your dress. The cardinal raised his hat and his ears disappeared. Up and down, up and down. Taken with precision, a profound man hammered the nail on his own nose. Straight on the head. Look aside.
Filling her nozzle with a hose, alphabetically, Betty becomes a tractor. Her unused arm trusses in butterflies. Stick figures line up her hems. A father waltzes his son, up and down. Bombs shelter.
Weddings and milk cartons, pouring all full. A girl ties her boy's tie, again. Off to church. Diapered in a poison patch. The bee-keeper shoe-laces. Look away. Hole troop. Hefty ladies in tin buckets jig, their heads wrapped. Later, they'll copulate.
This was our land-mass, an ether full of arms. Distant gray explosions where wings hide their eggs. The ground is what races and is more obscure than air. Call earth frost. Because of the way earth keeps blooming, there's no respite. Land's cruciform.
In Greek this would translate:
A GOD (DAD?) Penis-Cradling: When a town becomes a desert, we Gods
get nauseous.
CROW: Pity. Ashes. Burn them.
PROSTRATE WOMAN (AND BIRD) (On the ground, smashed up):
O broke neck--
an we are
not--
Break back--
this--
Let the
boat go--
I'll rock
me--this
--that broke.What am I
that I wait--
rock my what.
Whooping Woman (and bird) 1 (out from the tent, streaming blood):
They hacked off my
arms.
Whooping Woman (and bird) 2 (out from the tent, streaming blood):
We're their hand-
less slaves.
Whooping Woman (and bird) 3 (out from the tent, streaming blood):
We're their legless
whores.
Whooping Woman (and bird) 1 (out from the tent, streaming blood):
They say we don't
deserve to die.
BROKEN WOMAN (AND BIRD) (On the ground, smashed up):
We who are live are
those who are dead.
Whooping Woman (and bird) 2 (out from the tent, streaming blood):
All the gone
light.
Me--a cut in the cliff
lashed rain
a live tomb,
beast-food
I that I
what.
Whooping Woman (and bird) 1 (out from the tent, streaming blood):
Flower--
I tear what
flesh still.
A little time.
PROSTRATE WOMAN (AND BIRD) (On the ground, smashed up):
Days gone--days
to make songs of,
when I
were kings.
Whooping Woman (and bird) 3 (out from the tent, streaming blood):
Sing--music
for graves,
lips O.
Girl (or Birds) (out from the tent, streaming blood):
I was with the
dancers.
Then . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . in their beds
young men headless.
BROKEN WOMAN (AND BIRD) (On the ground, smashed up):
What happen to I
is mine.
Girl (or Birds) (out from the tent, streaming blood):
They tell her to wait
near his tomb.
Murder her there--
a gift to a corpse.
PROSTRATE WOMAN (AND BIRD) (On the ground, smashed up):
To die is to only not be.
Girl (or Birds) (out from the tent, streaming blood):
They make my brother
climb the burning tower
and throw him from the top.
CROW: You have no strength--don't look
for help.
Whooping Woman (and bird) 3: Fragrant bird-child--
kiss O.
Whose fathers are Madness, Poison, Red
Death--
feast on what.
Whooping Woman (and bird) 3(streaming): Where kissed
where now what
torn bones grin.
Girl (or Birds): Crack your head
I'll heal your wounds.
What dancers, dance.
Whooping Woman (and bird) 2: Fall and be
forgot.
PROSTRATE WOMAN: Wings of smoke spread.
BROKEN WOMAN: Name gone from what.
On Rescue
What is out of this world is firstly what you need
and what you cannot know
unless I tell you. In part light so strong it turns
walls to transparency.
Because of light faults appear and multiply until
dazzling. Are beauty. Dew
jewels. Everything does. A passing in fuchsia. So
that anything darkish is
your eye alone, magnified, projected onto air which
is visibility. The wall
becomes corridor.
Spying on purity for sport or from spite, next circles
have sides. Purity would
be inhale and exhale at the same time. Thinking the
sky was to appease and
cover you, you were its sacrifice and blanket, and
thus, we dissolve. Are
precipitation. Just as seeing means averting your
gaze, knowing's intermittent
or intermittence. Bulbs are replaced. Everything
somewhere goes. Back to
normal: having without being. Having a reality without
being one.
To translate, from Ibn 'Arabi:
Under languor's influence
I found myself in you
like the illusory point
existing only in estimation.