Enters
this
church.
toward which The
Expectant stutter(upon artificial limbs,
with faces like defunct geraniums)
VII
Paris;this April sunset completely utters
utters serenely silently a cathedral
before whose upward lean magnificent face
the streets turn young with rain,
spiral acres of bloated rose
coiled within cobalt miles of sky
yield to and heed
the mauve
of twilight(who slenderly descends,
daintily carrying in her eyes the dangerous first stars)
people move love hurry in a gently
arriving gloom and
see!(the new moon
fills abruptly with sudden silver
these torn pockets of lame and begging colour)while
there and here the lithe indolent prostitute
Night,argues
with certain houses
VIII
will out of the kindness of their hearts a few philosophers tell me
what am i doing on top of this hill at Calchidas, in the sunlight?
down ever so far on the beach below me a little girl in white
spins,tumbles;rolling in sand.
across this water,crowding tints:browns and whites showing,the dotting
millions of windows of thousands of houses--Lisboa. Like the crackle
of a typewriter,in the afternoon sky.
goats and sheep are driven by somebody along a curve of road which
eats into a pink cliff back and up leaning out of yellowgreen water.
they are building a house down there by the sea,in the afternoon.
rapidly a reddish ant travels my fifth finger.
a bird chirps in a tree,somewhere nowhere
and a little girl in white is tumbling
in sand
Clouds over
me are like bridegrooms
Naked and luminous
(here the absurd I; life, to peer and wear clothes.
i am altogether foolish, i suddenly make a fist out of ten fingers
voices rise from down ever so far--
hush.
Sunlight,
there are old men behind me I tell
you;several,incredible,sleepy
IX
but observe;although
once is never the beginning of
enough, is it(i do not pretend
to know the reason any more than.)But look:up--
raising, hoisting, a little
perhaps that and this, deftly
propping on smallest hands
the slim hinging you
--because
it’s five o’clock
and these(i notice)trees winterbrief surly old
gurgle a nonsense of sparrows, the cathedral
shudders blackening;
the sky is washed with tone
now for a moon
to squat in first darkness
--a little moon thinner than
memory
faint
-er
than all the whys
which lurk
between your naked shoulderblades.--Here
comes a stout fellow in a blouse
just outside this window, touching the glass
boxes one by one with his magic
stick(in which a willing
bulb of flame bubbles)
see
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