from Novaless . . .
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imagine
how blue * it will be :
become ! when we are not
here
shallow
sides
surfaces which * in aspecting
glares : sweet suns’ eyes
foliages to focus *
in all elements
making
of
the older
ancestries * a measure : rock
there may be no reason for
this matter
though the tired city
emerging
* the majority simple
patterns and the ideal its
« dream » . . . reflect
-ing in * other
textures
the place
trails * to its corners :
a bent and half-lived light
shimmering of rose-
wood *
(glaze or lacquer)
while all
the wasted *
enters into this
same
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beaten
while with silver bubbles
stark underwater * sentience
in
respective chains
of light . . . *
links
meshing networks
to work * the latest rays : declining
leaves’
substantial
grammars
more than us
has * its genitives : datives (being)
impossible : « I will give this
to
you » . . . along
the self
-same * line
the finest things * recede :
delicate cloth this soft part upon
your
nape the rose jewels
scrape * to adore too :
in beauty so *
beaten
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to speak
of * the
forgotten is
easy lyricism : fervour’s bent
in pure elocutio . . .
flower
becomes a verb :
and
what was simply * « meant »
contoured * in its patternings
makes the most solitary
of birds . . .
a simple rug
:
fret with its diamonds
oriental eternities *
(misting)
mixes nothing to oppose :
in gai savoir . .
. distant trees : in
them a near « yes » yet * this does not
matter : as does the fret
-work (impossibly
isolate)
in
ivory * chains
and flowering hues
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maculated
a
drawer full * of letters :
forms formed as if by my
sea . . . these objects
which no light
fills :
the desired
* overwhelmed
traces * in Œdipe le roi
’s type of time : that
filled
by essences
(sweet *
happenings
of circumstance) escaping
this following *
of the pen . . .
a beautiful water : the last
form possible
: stiller * its new edicts
now (in and of reflection) being
but
a remnant
of the kiss . . . a key will open it
:
and the papers will be * aged
now * deeply unburdened
or filled with these *
bright scents
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the faces * eaten
by the flowers . . . facets
which diamond(ing) * out
the
day :
is it « become » ?
is it what * it « used to
be » ? this
the memory
of you walking here by
my sea
: what * similar propagation’s
element denies in these implicit
facts . . . love which is
impending :
it
is impossible * (k)now :
though I may love you
still
higher cliffs
and * a ranker burden
summits * engrained
caucuses
(stripped foreign beauties !)
causing all else *
to be
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