into the hole, watches,
and flowers adjusted to nothingness.
Where is the newly born violet? Where are
the necktie and the virginal red yarn?
A tongue of rotten dust is moving forward
over the cities
smashing rings, eating away the paint,
making the black chairs howl soundlessly,
burying the cement florals, the parapets
of mangled metal,
the orchard and the wool, the fiery and blown-up photographs
injured by the rain, the thirst of the bedrooms, and the huge
movie posters in which the panther
is wrestling with thunder,
the geranium-spears, granaries full of lost honey,
the cough, the suits with their metallic threads,
everything gets covered with a deathly flavor
of regression and dampness and damage.
It"s possible that the conversations now underway, the bodies brushing,
the chast.i.ty of the tired ladies who make their nest in the smoke,
the tomatoes murdered without mercy,
the horses of a depressed regiment going by,
the light, the pressure of nameless fingertips
are wearing out the flat fiber of the lime,
surrounding the building fronts with neuter air
like knives: while
the dangerous air goes chewing up the way we stay alive,
the bricks, the salt runs over like waters,
and the carts with fat axles go b.u.mping by.
Surf of broken roses and tiny holes! Future
of the perfumed vein! Merciless objects!
Do not move, anyone! Do not open your arms
while in the blind water!