sun of invisible

BOOK III
PLATO’S HEART

sun of invisible


37

the world that was divided
that has been fragmented
by an oblique rhyme, by a bad poem
I'm picking up the pieces
in the womb of the world, with a wizard's line
I'm putting together a big mosaic
inside my sick head.
infected consciousness! someone poured the waste
of Predestination into the Maelstrom!
there's no way out of the well!
no way to crawl, grasping the potholes
and the rickety rocks and pebbles
and many more, for other works
all these famous authors
rottin' with me for days
I am Charon, I watch over the graves
with love, with cold, with hate
in a world that has been broken by Salvation


38

on the border of two lines, converging
into a cultural code, into a great novel of everyday life
remains the question of the archangel for the epigraph
of my literary agent, Samuel Beckett
"how many words can still fit
on the edges of the mouth
of a hanged man
in the Burmese woods?"

oh, I don't know!
I'm swinging at the bottom of a well!
what could anyone possibly know
he who has been hanged instead of a bucket
to scoop the emptiness from the Plague Lair?

or! or!
nothing to the wind!

so I became a true


39

the harsh bread of youth
not warming rays for all the half-basements
wiped from the earth by the inevitable snow
who fell under the ice of the 17th
I still remember you all...
resisting reason
resisting the pain
I still remember you all
I have not yet forgotten
my flowers of the field under the napalm
of the wormwood steppe
who gave that fateful order to attack?
who sent you all to the death
without a chance to return?

oh, solitude, it's a duel with time
and I will shoot first!
I will shoot into the white air!
to know the Hundred Percent Miss!

your turn, Saturn
take what's left of me

I'm ready
for my
shootin'


40

what's this all about?
I need a sign language interpreter from the absurd
from the language of death and time

the depths of the widest river
where I left my blade
let the birds fly to the North

bring with them a new seed
a new soul, a new order
words