Zukofsky’s A - 23/ a start at an antonymical transliteration
Friday, August 22nd, 2008Ended broken to start fallen
Absence a surplus much died:
Negation flush blossoms against those
Walloped, unloosed, flesh one’s future:
The bluff, ridges red, rib boned
A surprise cliff against one
Circumference against the center or
Simplify destruction or multiple ones
Each cave illuminates light’s absence
Before a cone - darkened - linear
Orchid - wind shaft - white noon
Bald persistence a naked wash
Little of which populates absence
The slow deprived mute tongue
Who slows? What will slow?
Blue sky the most illiterate
Dumb thoughts wax the silence
Vanity will erase appellation’s eye
not it’s own, most intimate:
The water soaked creation prospered
Flower into curved wood. The most
Shape gathers the heated circle
Flesh heaves into its moment
Stopped the blue movement through
A father without a thought
Large as if a cat
Darkened, optically scanned so round
Black, hairless, dogged in spirit
The tool rejects an opal
Blue drill moon lit, hardened
Resistance refuses quantity, dream shafted
The well-feasted young still
Hungry futurity upon them aching
Dark witness sugared already to
Horseless, hayless, smooth bad omen
Domestic mouse tongue dreams reject
Constant, precise, the salted tear
Multiple eyes, globe to mouth
Ear challenges the song or
Something - content to content - cruises
Permeable or in limited digs
In which the left forefinger
Sizzles the green window open
A frame a fortune visual
Stephen Vincent