red sleep mask, figures quivering, hives, moon, tower (hills
John M. Bennett After Ivan Arguelles' "[Schloss Nymphenburg fragment..."
At 08:45 AM 10/14/2003 -0700, you wrote:
[Schloss Nymphenburg fragment � ]
from patmos then the isle I fled on a junket through space and time the soul's weary messenger "died" the hour reddened a quick a silver thought embargo, hasn't it ever been thus? a fled then a green interval quietly in the basement where the book I died for read, colors in the grain, air's distance only grows for instance I am alone when "thou" reaches out syntax is oblivion, a single piano note as if madness itself sustained for the whole of lifetime until, below look the waters of, the archaic footprint here there was once a tower built of sun-girt stone the heights a dizzy before the western hills a shadow asleep, how darkening the mainland disappears a remote when did you say you'd call again? never mind the fine red frill around the mine is the one to the left just behind the ivy plastered cornice yours is a mask in name only , the whole persona a "persephone" in white fear moon barking against a lapis lazuli backdrop what month was that in what unseeming hieroglyph to translate , bitter's end in a small reduced to a godlike thing quivering can that have been "apollo"? lingering a same hue before eye's violent suggestion of distant and rolling sky where gathering a knot thunder assume devour if a hand can stay the water's dim and hazy figures on the other shore apparently walking smoke and drunkenness in the very meat how chance is there order? propitiate a deity swarm in the fainting afternoon's harsh complexion the yellow of hives and burning inherent to desire
ivan arguelles 10-14-03
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