Eventual Horizon

_______________________________________________________ there is no door, almost nothing, oblique figures _______________________________________________________ beneath the columns of false marble _______________________________________________________ returned, removed, moonless as an estimate, circle dancing _______________________________________________________ like a mineral _______________________________________________________ possibly a raised sanctuary _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ verse 7 informed my lingering curiosity _______________________________________________________ pallor than grass _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ was not red (J’ai ta lettre datée “En Mer”) _______________________________________________________ minor litanies _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ misshapen pearl, problem or promise _______________________________________________________ walls & windows, crawling graveyards _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Do not write this version. _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ The manuscript has been lying for centuries _______________________________________________________ groaned or grunted. passed on _______________________________________________________ was it Sappho or Telesilla _______________________________________________________ the space between re- and in- _______________________________________________________ a long-broken line. _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ is it or is it or not either _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ of some oblate vessel _______________________________________________________ of some ageless stone _______________________________________________________ alabaster or avenue _______________________________________________________ pressed perhaps, or rather _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ This will be counting. _______________________________________________________ This will be the blank new page _______________________________________________________ (C should have been inserted above) _______________________________________________________ compressed & chromatic, semi-tones & minor ninths, broken chords _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ polysemous, radiating. If there were _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Two mirrors stare at each other _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ terse. (“a dactyl equals a spondee” or “one citadel equals two cities”) _______________________________________________________ straight lines blocks boxes binds _______________________________________________________ models originally real deathless _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ the principal protagonist was never painted _______________________________________________________ forgotten or perhaps the opposite _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ reliquary jar in the shape of a jar _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ symphonies on a dead left hand _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ spent horses & hyphens _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ taut fibers _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ of nows millimetric measure reciprocal blues _______________________________________________________ equivocal and faint _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ with no organs _______________________________________________________ A child’s dream of a mouth—fugue fingers _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ vertical to the horizon _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ (someone was mumbling about 76 ways of looking at a black word) _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ of the no need of the moon to shine in it _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ It was not a story to pass on. _______________________________________________________ mummified intact neutral tones in turn _______________________________________________________ moving towards _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________