The Accidental by Gina Franco

Author:Gina Franco [Franco, Gina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781610756754
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

The Spirit Is Thrown

existing, it never gets back behind its thrownness

[the rest of]

the tree

behind

[the remains of]

the tree

Retablo:

behind the altar

statue at the end of the world: statue wholly veil:

a tiny tree is made

a house—as seen from beyond, omnisciently—with a wood

table placed inside to mark an opening: stretch of time

between shape and meaning

of shape: this is

[.]

body, covenant, a leaning into and a hush of thought as thought

almost . . . almost

leans away, a lack of words, of dream, and a forgetting: the dream

of the wood is home and the dream of the home is where self

does its looking into: every shelter is an image of

interiority: every book, the mind knows, is another word for tree:

are you there we wish so often: less intently where bread arrives

before the table is set

in the hushed house: the wish of the altar is the image of the tree

in the wish of the carpenter: wooden cup, wooden plate,

wooden table—as seen from behind, partially—

a petitioner’s blindness: but also, devotion; this is

[:]

corpus, our statue: every image is a book of judgments: measures

taken apart from the whole given whole:

the image of the plate becomes the triumph of surface: landscape

without monument or aperture: blank face of the mirror: the image

of the cup is bereavement

of depth: the hollowed body, more surface: more flesh of thought

[. . .]

flesh: the wish of the altar is transfigured image: sky | star | tree

. . . blue firmament | wormwood | rood . . .

the wish of the image is all it must bear: veil turned holy real:

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