Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 23:49:39 -0700
Subject: Briar, briar, bush on fire.


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 |     |	     "Vexilla regis prodeunt inferni"             |     |
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 |     | Fore-gown, here and gone, is it to a dance you invite me |     |
 |     |between what sheepish grin-grounds your irony bound? Or,  |     |
 |     |is it to-word what plated merely shines as reflector of an|     |
 |     |'autonomous iconography' of the ladders built that now lay|     |
 |     |useless for a descent from such a crossing? Does the room,|     |
 |     |house to the being of a dance  not lay beyond the 'compli-|     |
 |     |cated scaffoldings', sight-saught and a-gaining upon a    |     |
 |     |journey already close to returning, so knotted to a clause|     |
 |     |dissolving speech where your _nihil_ is on _ens_? Gnostic |     |
 |     |see, gnostic do? Bauble indeed, trifle in fact of what a  |     |
 |     |frienship carries from one house to another, courting the |     |
 |     |lack of what great is still lessor to what enslaved calls |     |
 |     |"'Veni, sponsa, de Libano'"...(_Purg. XXX,11) coveting as |     |
 |     |inbreed, never monster. Relay impossible from this nobile |     |
 |     |castello, fourth as canto, circled once, or as thirteenth |     |
 |     |of a paradise, 'qui ambulat in tenebris, nescit quo vadat'|     |
 |     |briar dance done con te, but not with "tua"; che e'la mia.|     |
 |     |Will Rumi's "Checkmate" due? Allora, read, writhe, and 'a'|     |
 |     |rhythm(a')tic/toc to this "hypnotizing watch" trick of the|     |
 |     |time polish worn spit to space inhabited licks, and Il y a|     |
 |     |split. There, there, "'_Modicum, et non videbitis me: et  |     |
 |     |iterum_, sorelle mie dilette, _modicum, et vos videbitis  |     |
 |     |me_.'" (_Purg. XXXIII, 10-12). 				  |     |
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 |     |	Here thus is a "walk with writing" that I leave to|     |
 |     |you, "falsificare in se' Buoso Donati" (_Inf. XXX,44);    |     |
 |     |yet to the Eight Circle you are placed, Bolgia Six, or as |     |
 |     |a dream to where you sing Canto XIII, (_Purg), and there, |     |
 |     |"Lo fren vuol esser del contrario suono.;.."(40).         |     |
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 entre chien et loup dans
 lalangue trespasses,
 Lucio Angelo Privitello