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Extract translated by John Minahane
i.
(prologue)
nodes
this is what nodes are
sets of paratexts nodes
stories immersed in stories
rules for rescue teams
segments of composed realities
nodes from behind every pavis
bunches of coloured banners in the wind
in aland that isn’t good at connections
(let harsányi’s thoughts be sacred)
an invisible land where even big-shots vanish
zamkovsky and his wife ludmila built a cottage 1475 m.a..s.l.
little precious little information about the system
even if we need not go to the skies
monuments pantheons mausoleums temples
in order to understand fully
how invisible merely designated things
(tannins almond-essences acidities)
are to be grasped
(ambrose lost the hastings sword at the petynka pool
so much weeping so much grief
i told him he was enchanting and he vanished)
at some time then he must appear /
(he smiled)
/ in forty four almost a thousand years had gone
when they landed there whence they had embarked
during history’s longest day
in full strength once again
they drew caledfwlch from the trunk of fate
with a sustained bombardment they woke up rollo
guillaume to montgomery
time and time for the legends
of the west
thus we were formed on its margin
by leavening to a statistical average
from linguistic chaos
one day like a supernova
we will gush forth
vi.
(children)
ah again again i’ve looked into
a land of stumbling dreaming eternal games
through the eyes of [animator(s) cook(s) rocking-horse rider(s)
pram-pusher(s) sleeper(s) au pair(s)…] (m./f.)
stood there like gesticulus at the crossroads
and days left gasping in the polka dot jersey maillot à pois
stay behind us with long legs
in cadiz for the first time cyprian hush-shushed against the atlantic /
for legends sagas myths a foundation
/ uprose)
just released from zoomex
the noise-makers with peonza against the floor
were constantly testing the firmness of the universe
on wooden steeds the celestials
poets fortified with almasia
ever and anew leave the reptileworld
beaten
(he smiled)
at some time then he must appear
(i told him he was enchanting and he vanished
so much weeping so much grief
ambrose lost the hastings sword at the petynka pool)
the xix century in the form of grandmother
rolling onto the toddler
bystrice plums on a tree in the orchard
rurale and she’d cook something occasionally
like the pumpkins on great rye island
without her / them
they grew
(swaddled in a manduka
he surfs the hallway runner
upon a tricycle)
i have examined all the courtyards in our district
autumn sad and winter cheerless
pushing you in your pram
with the name of a holy martyr
they gave me nothing but it doesn’t matter
just that i was with you
is enough for now
for your deeds yet will be
written in the books
of chronicles
of those parts
ii.
entrance::::halt:::mezzoropa::system of rubble-heaps: fuori le mura
(though this too is a regular place for poetry like any other)
here we found ourselves with the soul of a stalker
prestige sleeps together with sleeping beauty
halted periphrastic tense
(neither helveticisation nor brusselisation will await us)
into the zone secretly stealthily /
chapel
we ceased to believe in our own land and hence in the world
(sperm on the silken backs of harlots)
through various byways we approach the goal
without having the least notion of the system
(ah love by means unknown we’ve changed the states
to compossessorates / the owners
as always unknown
the ninths paid)
/ from distant ages we’ve entered the forests collected and observed
if the pine-needles drifting in space are an architect’s statement
naos today is empty the faxes forgotten the tapes erased
from as far back as my vinyl memory reaches
i have been removing bugs from systems
with a whisk my only weapon
i’m a frontiersman
i guard the world
paral.lel
q.s.
coda
i have beginnings and sometimes i know the endings
(if you were here you’d see
how your fame is growing)
whither go all the threads of the road
of the ends of ethereal roots
in webs wove by spider feelers…
to the last mighty leap to
the first alluvial
the beginning of the weave
where the wanderer unties the nodes
to /
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