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from Novaless . . .

 

 

 

XXXVI


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




XXXVII

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




XXXVIII


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



XXXIX



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



XXXX


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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