Matina Stamatakis
[[...of Machado's dream ]]______
In orchard gloss, icy sheen
__________[reflections of music
________________________in cold jars]
____a Chopin mazurka
______reaches his ears
it's as if [& listen closely]
tempo anointed quiet fronds
with a thick
______________________residue
_________________* * *____
the somnambulist will
say__---__after the dispelled haze
of restless sleep__---__
'¡No recuerdo!'__
[no violas to stroke despair__---
________his pandurate neck
less & less the resemblance
___of childhood fantasy
even less
_____of play]______
[[...of Man Ray's gargantuan lips in the valley of...]]______
towering windmills bathed
in laced pumice, or death
knells for the labial & lizard-
skinned__---__whose vaporous
_________& porous glossae
__________________will part
_________with paraffin-waxed,
_________paean song in oblong
__& feather-stretched pinwork,
_____________needled
through eye & bare
mackerel skies___________
[[...eeeeeeee...]]______
..................elongate..................
__________body's dusty shadows stretched between
___________________________perpetuity & rest__---__upon
________________rising miasma midnight summer sun drawn
____________________upon the chill__---__
recollections in microfiche:
___________slowly turning, turning still__---__Calderian
__________________________mobile, how eyes bend with each
________________revolution spiral-turned__---__helices
_________________with flexion:
_________________a virtual constant
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