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The
ornaments
Translated by Maria Irene Ramalho
| from Intradoxos
and
man was wrenched from the rind of night
and enlarged of teeth and eyes
and day-twisted and endowed with hearing
and he heard:
the wheat rubbing Galillee’s ether
bare feet
the peppermint-damp grass ¬
and he heard:
the inviolate skin
of his inviolate body
[germinating worms in would-be vertebrae]
loins and back
of the pachyderm’s carcasses
a hippo dreaming among sunflowers |
