[MD] chasing ghosts

[Heather Perella]

Tough to read.


SA
--- Marsha <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:

>   TOMB OF THE POET by Octavio Paz 
> 
>  
> The book
>              the glass
> the green obscurely a stalk    
>                                     the record
> sleeping beauty in her bed of music
> the things drowned in their names
> to say them with the eyes
>                                     in a beyond I
> coannot tell where
> nail them down
>                                     lamp pencil
> portrait
> this that I see
>                             to nail it down
> like a living temple
>                                     plant it
> like a tree
>                     a god
> crown it 
>                    with a name
>                                     immortal
> derisible crown of thorns
>                                         Speech!
> 
> The stalk and its imminent flower
>                                                
> sun-sex-sun
> the flower without shadow 
>                                         the word
> opens
>         in a beyond without where
> immaculate extension
> transparaency which sustains things
> fallen
>          raised up
> by the glance
>                     held
>                             in a reflection
> 
> Bundle of worlds
>                             instants
> glowing bunches
> moving forests of stars
> wandering syllables
>                                 tide
> all the times of time
>                                 TO BE
> a second's fraction
>                                lamp pencil portrait
> in a here I cannot tell where
> 
>                                             A name
> begins
>             seize on it, plant, say it
> like a wood that thinks
>                                     flesh it
> A lineage begins
>                         in a name
> an adam
>             like a living temple  
> name without shadow      
>                                 nailed
> like a god
>             in this here-without-where
> Speech!
> 
>         I cease in its beginning
> in this that I say
>                         I cease
> 
> TO BE
>             shadow of an instantaneous name
> 
> I SHALL NEVER KNOW MY BOND'S UNDOING
>  
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