Bigrammatology - I
the dahlias sleep in the mouth,
dead water and dead sand contending
for the evening under lamplight the
evening with the flickering tongue had
passed below the horizon of his
homing while the narrowing rails slide
together behind you; watching the
furrow that widens behind you,
you shall not think
of them, indifference which resembles
the others as
death resembles life, being between
two lives - unflowering, between
the live and die: there
is a place of disaffection time
before and after, we trod the pavement in
a formal pattern,
along the
dead water and dead sand contending
for the evening under lamplight the
evening with the flickering tongue had
passed below the horizon of his
homing while the narrowing rails slide
together behind you; watching the
furrow that widens behind you,
you shall not think
of them, indifference which resembles
the others as
death resembles life, being between
two lives - unflowering, between
the live and die: there
is a place of disaffection time
before and after, we trod the pavement in
a formal pattern,
along the
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