February 19th
In an attempt to transcend my limitations I have thought to create an expressive neutrality. These pages I give to the dog to shred.
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MARBLE SHOES
'I have not brought
the message. I came
with the message.
I am a part of what
is said to have
happened.'
Pauses or deletions in the text: ainos (story) & ainigma
" . . . an abstract unity . . .'' [Baudelaire]:
and the unapproachable distance.
"All research on the labyrinth ought properly to begin with the dance." [Kerenyi]
An inevitable order in the world
Compels silence
Not an outcome but a simulacrum
Of its rhythm
Structure
17 lines · 17 stanzas