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  spirationary torrents un-

  locked, the

  bouncing breasts in the sharp

  verse-fibula-yoke,

  fall with me through

  images, rocks, numbers.

  * * *

  THE OUNCE OF TRUTH deep inside delusion,

  past it

  the trays of the balance

  roll,

  both together, in conversation,

  the law, raised in struggle to heart-

  level,

  son, wins.

  * * *

  IN THE NOISES, like our beginning,

  in the ravine,

  where you fell to me,

  I wind it up again, the

  musical box—you

  know: the invisible,

  the

  inaudible one.

  * * *

  LYON, LES ARCHERS

  The iron spike, reared,

  in the brickniche:

  the co-millennium

  instranges itself, unconquerable,

  follows

  your driving eyes,

  now,

  with glances cast here by dice

  you wake, who is beside you,

  she becomes heavier,

  heavier,

  you too, with all

  the instrangedness in you,

  instrange yourself,

  deeper,

  the One

  string

  tenses its pain between you,

  the missing target

  radiates, bow.

  * * *

  THE HEADS, monstrous, the city,

  they are building,

  behind happiness.

  If once more you were my pain, faithful to you,

  and a lip came by, this side, at the

  place, where I reach out of myself,

  I would bring you through

  this street

  up front.

  * * *

  WHERE AM I

  today?

  The dangers, all,

  with their appliance,

  hickishly gamey,

  pitchfork-high

  the heavensfallow hoisted,

  the losses, chalkmouthed—you

  upright mouths, you tables!—

  in the disangled town,

  harnessed to glimmerhackneys,

  —goldtrace, counterheaved

  goldtrace!—,

  the bridges, overjoyed by the stream,

  love, up there in the branch,

  niggling at the coming-escaping,

  the Great Light,

  elevated to a spark,

  on the right of the rings

  and all gain.

  * * *

  THE LONG DISCOVERED

  whisper letterwords to each other,

  whisper the word without leaf, the peeked-around,

  the size of your taler,

  hear also

  my strong

  You-

  know-how,

  the high hither, the embrace

  is with us, without end,

  on the staircase

  to the harbor,

  the goose step falters,

  Odessitka.

  * * *

  ALL YOUR SEALS BROKEN OPEN? NEVER.

  Go, cedarize it

  too, the letter-

  skinned, eleven-

  hoofed guile:

  so that the wave, honey-

  distant, milk-

  close, when

  courage moves it to complaint,

  complaint to courage, again,

  so that it not also

  mirror the electron-

  idiot, who processes

  dates for

  portentous

  apes.

  * * *

  II

  SLEEPMORSELS, wedges,

  driven into the nowhere:

  we remain equal to ourselves,

  the turned-

  about roundstar

  agrees with us.

  * * *

  TRUTH, roped to

  the relinquished dreamrelics,

  comes as a child

  over the ridge.

  The crutch in the valley,

  whirred about by earthclods,

  by gravel, by

  eyeseed,

  leafs through the high-

  up flowering No—in the

  crown.

  * * *

  OUT OF THE NEAR

  waterpits

  graygreen shoveled

  upward with unawakened hands:

  the depth

  gives up its growth, inaudible,

  without resistance.

  To recover that

  too, before

  the stoneday blows the men-

  and animal-swarms empty, exactly as

  the sevenflute, fronting the mouths, the

  maws, demands it.

  * * *

  HATCHED

  chitin-

  suns.

  The armored amphibians

  wrap the blue prayercoats around themselves, the sand-

  enthralled gull

  sanctions it, the lurking

  lampwick

  goes into itself.

  * * *

  ETERNITIES, died

  over and above you,

  a letter touches

  your still un-

  wounded fingers,

  the shining forehead

  vaults hither

  and beds itself in

  odors, noises.

  * * *

  THE PERTY SAXIFRAGE

  in the tile’s joint

  of the empty-

  prayed, hothouse-

  like asylum,

  a ceratose gaze

  sleeps itself into the half-

  open gate,

  gangly,

  a more than

  major syllable comes walking,

  an awakened

  blindman’s staff points it

  to the place behind

  the whitehorsemanes.

  * * *

  THE BETWEEN-WHILES

  hailed aid

  grows,

  the name-edifice

  pauses,

  the glacier milk carts

  the fully grown through

  the swimming target

  of its unwavering

  blazes.

  * * *

  THE SUCCESSFUL

  mummy-leap across

  the mountain.

  The singular giant-

  leaf of the paulownia,

  that records it.

  Unpicked, the large

  toy-

  worlds. No service whatsoever

  in the constellation.

  In the controltowers the hundred

  silver hoofs hammer

  the forbidden

  light free.

  * * *

  ON THE RAINED-OVER SPOOR

  silence’s little juggler sermon.

  It is, as if you could hear,

  as if I still loved you.

  * * *

  WHITESOUNDS, bundled,

  ray-

  passages

  over the table

  with the bottle post hither.

  (It listens to itself, listens

  to a sea, drinks it

  too, unveils

  the roadheavy

  mouths.)

  The One Secret

  butts forever into the word.

  (Who falls off that, rolls

  under the leafless tree.)

  All the

  shadowclasps

  on all the

  shadowjoints,

  audible-inaudible,

  that announce themselves now.

  * * *

  THE DEVILISH

  tonguejokes of night

  lignify in your ear,

  what the glances

  beamed back,

  jumps forward,

  the wasted
r />   bridgetolls, harped,

  chisel through the chalkravine before us,

  the sea-ish lightswamp

  barks up at us—

  at you,

  earthly-invisible

  sanctuary.

  * * *

  THE DARK VACCINATION CANDIDATES, on

  their unwavering orbit

  around the wound,

  needly,

  beyond number and host,

  running errands, indefatigable,

  the glasshard

  grinding sounds of writing,

  on both seams

  the afforested

  hand-district (you half

  sheen, alabaster),

  in the wintery preserve

  one pine absolves itself.

  * * *

  THE SECOND

  nettle-message

  to the

  chugging

  skull:

  Sagged away,

  the living

  sky. Under

  the yowling

  nozzle,

  amidst the eternal

  blinker game,

  bite yourself as word into the knowing,

  starless

  stalk.

  * * *

  THE EXCAVATED HEART,

  wherein they install feeling.

  Wholesale homeland pre-

  fabricated parts.

  Milksister

  shovel.

  * * *

  THE INDUSTRIOUS

  mineral resources, homey,

  the heated syncope,

  The not-to-be-deciphered

  jubilee,

  The completely glassed-in

  spider-altars in the all-

  overtowering low building,

  the intermediate sounds

  (even yet?),

  the shadowpalavers,

  the anxieties, icetrue,

  flightclear,

  the baroquely cloaked,

  language-swallowing showerroom,

  semantically floodlit,

  the uninscribed wall

  of a standing-cell:

  here

  live yourself

  straightthrough, without clock.

  * * *

  THE COLLIDING temples,

  naked, in the mask-rental:

  behind the world

  unbidden hope casts

  out the towropes.

  On the sea-ish woundborders lands

  the breathing number.

  * * *

  IN-HEAVENED in plague-

  shrouds. At

  the disnighted

  place.

  The eyeblinkreflexes during

  the luxuriant

  dreamlevel

  null.

  * * *

  WHEN I DON’T KNOW, DON’T KNOW,

  without you, without you, without a You,

  they all come,

  the

  freebeheaded, who

  lifelong brainlessly sang

  of the tribe

  of the You-less:

  Ashrei,

  a word without meaning,

  trans-Tibetan,

  injected into the

  Jewess

  Pallas

  Athena’s

  helmeted ovaries,

  and when he,

  he,

  fetally,

  harps Carpathian nono,

  then the Allemande

  bobbins her lace for

  the vomiting im-

  mortal

  song.

  * * *

  ACCLIMATIZED-DISCLIMATIZED,

  adisclimatized,

  the obedient darkness: three

  bloodhours behind the

  gaze-spring,

  the coldlight-ocellae, s-

  mothered by blinding,

  the thirteen-

  carat Nothing:

  over you, with

  the luckskin,

  it folds itself

  during

  the ascent.

  * * *

  GIANT,

  pathless, tree-

  die-cast

  hand-

  scape,

  quincunx.

  The branches, nerve-piloted,

  fall upon

  the already

  reddened harsh shadows,

  a snakebite before

  rose-

  rise.

  * * *

  NEIGHED TOMBPRAYERS,

  bloodhoofs paw

  the thoughtbouquets together,

  an ash-hooray

  turns over the vocal parts,

  hangs the irradiated topazes

  high up in space,

  the storm-compulsary

  corpse bags

  line up,

  in the funeral procession

  the kingdom of

  Bohemia grins

  irresistably.

  * * *

  THE ETERNITIES HONKYTONK

  in the bent beam,

  a greeting goes wild, twixt two,

  the darkblood

  muscle, it too

  concealing itself,

  encapsulates the name it carried along,

  and reproduces itself

  through budding.

  * * *

  TRASHSWALLOWER-CHOIRS, silvery:

  Miliary fever

  runs and runs around the pit-tomb,

  whoever

  thinks that December, a

  gaze will wet his

  talking forehead.

  * * *

  III

  DEDEVILED INSTANT.

  All winds.

  The powers, sobered,

  sow the lungstitch shut.

  The blood collapses back upon itself.

  In Bocklemünd, across the one in front,

  the lightscript,

  but also across you,

  deeper confrère letter,

  eternity-hither the

  hammershine hurries.

  * * *

  SHELLS inside Finitude, stretchable,

  in each

  another figure grows itself fast

  A thousand

  is not even yet One.

  Each arrow you loose

  is accompanied by the sent-along target

  into the unerringly-secret

  tumult.

  * * *

  LOVE, straitjacket-pretty,

  bears in on the pair of cranes.

  Who, given that he drives through the void,

  does the disbreathed here

  bring across into one of the worlds?

  * * *

  YOU WERE my death:

  you I could hold on to,

  while all fell from me.

  * * *

  TO THE RIGHT—who? Shedeath.

  And you, to the left, you?

  The travel-sickles at the outer-

  heavenly place

  mime themselves whitegray

  into moonswallows,

  into starswifts.

  I dive over there

  and pour an urnfull

  down, into,

  you.

  * * *

  THE DISMANTLED TABOOS,

  and the bordercrisscrossing between them,

  worldwet, on a

  meaning chase, on a

  meaning

  flight.

  * * *

  RAGE-PILGRIM RAIDS across

  a sea-ish Outside and Inside,

  Conquista

  in the narrowest

  bottom heart-

  vitals.

  (Nobody discolors what now streams.)

  The salt of a co-

  tear here

  submerged

  struggles up

  the light

  logbooktowers.

  Soon

  it flashes at us.

  * * *

  SILENCE, old hag, ride me through the rapids.

  Lids’ fires, light up the way.

 
* * *

  THE ONE self-

  starred

  night.

  Threathed through by ashes,

  hour-hither hour-yonder,

  by the lidshadows of shut-

  down eyes,

  ground down

  to arrowthin

  souls,

  silenced in conversation

  with airalgae-bearded

  crawling quivers.

  A fulfilled

  lightconch drives

  through a conscience.

  * * *

  OVER MULLED AND TOILED WINE, necronymic

  long before time,

  I muster the glassworld—and not it alone—

  for inspection

  and roll myself into a stiff sail, mast-strong,

  the ends deep in an anchor’s hollow tooth,

  and get myself a navel, between the middles,

  made of, below fat stars

  in the wrinkled flood

  icing them in,

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