i perceive in front of our lady a ring of people
a brittle swoon of centrifugally expecting
faces clumsily which devours a man, three cats,
five white mice, and a baboon.
O a monkey with a sharp face waddling carefully
the length of this padded pole;a monkey attached
by a chain securely to this always talking
individual, mysterious witty hatless.
Cats which move smoothly from neck to neck of bottles,cats
smoothly willowing out and in between bottles,who step smoothly
and rapidly along this pole over five squirming
mice; or leap through hoops of fire,creating smoothness.
People stare, the drunker applaud
while twilight takes the sting out of the vermilion
jacket of nodding hairy Jaqueline who is given a mouse
to hold lovingly,
our lady what do you think of this? Do your proud fingers and
your arms tremble remembering something fragile
and which had been presented unto you by a mystery?
. . . the cathedral recedes into weather without answering
IV
impossibly
motivated by midnight
the flyspecked abdominous female
indubitably tellurian
strolls
emitting minute grins
each an intaglio.
Nothing
has also carved upon her much
too white forehead a pair of
eyes which mutter thickly(as one merely
terriculous American an instant doubts
the authenticity
of these antiquities--relaxing
hurries
elsewhere;to blow
incredible wampum
V
inthe,exquisite;
morning sure lyHer eye s exactly sit,ata little roundtable
among otherlittle roundtables Her,eyes count slow(ly
obstre poroustimidi ties surElyfl)oat iNg,the
ofpieces ofof sunligh tof fa l l in gof throughof treesOf.
(Fields Elysian
the like,a)slEEping neck a breathing a ,lies
(slo wlythe wom an pa)ris her
flesh:wakes
in little streets
while exactlygir lisHlegs;play;ing;nake;D
and
chairs wait under the trees
Fields slowly Elysian in
a firmcool-Ness taxis,s.QuirM
and, b etw ee nch air st ott er s thesillyold
WomanSellingBaloonS
In theex qui site
morning,
her sureLyeye s sit-ex actly her sitat a surely!little,
roundtable amongother;littleexactly round. tables,
Her
.eyes
VI
candles and
Here Comes a glass box
which the exhumed
hand of Saint Ignatz miraculously
inhabits. (people tumble
down. people crumble to their
knees. people
begin crossing people)and
hErE cOmEs a glass box:
surrounded by priests
moving in fifty colours
, sensuously
(the crowd
howls faintly
blubbering pointing
see
yes)
It
here
comes
A Glass
Box and incense with
and oh sunlight--
the crash of the
colours(of the oh
silently
striding)priests-and-
slowly,al,ways;procession:and
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