Supplice by T. Zachary Cotler

Author:T. Zachary Cotler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2014-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Open your mouth, he will see

ailleurs (an elsewhere slightly

more distant than elsewhere), where, if he

forgets his Earth, he may found

a city of rhapsodes

who drink from their own

calvaria inscribed

with circlet arguments designed

to fail to appeal

to all the scientists of sadness

standing with compasses ready

in the dawn spliced with bone-

yellow twilight on Earth

and nowhere else.

And yet what Earth was this not quite

ailleurs, this not-quite-possible-to-lure-

into-the-possible, and yet

the only fleur

de sel to curl at night into

a Delhi, a Los Angeles, a Mengcheng

cluttered with sleepers, and yet, for want

of a latterday Chuang Tzu dreaming

a butterfly wingbeat, the wind was lost:

for want of a wind, the cycle was lost:

for want of a cycle, the pattern was lost:

for want of a pattern, the system was lost:

for want of a system, Nietzsche wept?

For a horse beaten in a Turin street.

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