Anacoluthic -- Peter O'Leary
Stars in the sunlight fade : what are the metaphorical titles drawn from the world of sense & applied to the nature of God; his geomantic eyes the light from which visits you its cold
shed from Saturn lunar, avernal, januarial?
In the hour when night furls its last menaces I had a dream:
For some wrongdoing I am to be imprisoned by the son of man (a matrilineal inversion: manson); incarcerated in her basement A WOMAN, STAMMERING, WTH SQUINTED EYES, LIMPING, HER HANDS BADLY MAIMED
Inevitable. Pitiless. Human. Punishment. STARING AT HER, SHE SOFTENED, WANTING HER IN SPITE OF MYSELF, SHE BECAME MORE DESIRABLE : HER rayment did shine, and was made very white, even as snowe: NEARLY JOINED IN COITION, SHE SANG
Enwrapped in that which is wholly intangible, invisible, nevertheless I lobby for lenience. My imprisonment involves me standing at a large, ancient box EVEN ULYSSES COULDN'T BEAR HER VOICE, SHE CLAIMED & I WAS WANTING HER MORE BADLY : DESIRE-TERROR
sticking my hand through an opening
nature, scripture an
aperture
where it is braced. An interior potion of the box is on a wheel, rotating like a turbine a severing, guilotining motion A LADY, HOLY & ALERT, APPEARED; SHE SAID:
Master, who is this! STARS UPON HER MOUTH. Awaken. AND THE SINGER TURNED FOUL, LIMPENED. THE LADY TORE HER GOWN. THEN HER BELLY WITH A SICKENING SLASHING MOTION. HANDSFUL OF VISCERA. EXSANGUINATION. GAGGING FITS IN THE NOXIUM. BEGUN AT 14 UNCEASING.
A rotation of the wheel earns a distortion to my wrist. There's a ball I need to hold onto. The turbine twists in my wrist so that I want to drop the ball. But this I must not do. "let us find the opening
by which you may enter."
The House of the Son of Man is designed around a central pit. A cousin, a priest (philipic father, lover of horses) circumambulate the lip.
Not torture but : CASTIGATION.
What is meant by God's oath & his malediction, by his slumber & awaking, & all the other inspired imagery of allegoric symbolism?
Purgatorio XIX 1-36
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