Friday 30 November 2012

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The music is only faintly audible
as is the conversation of trees of a calm night.
Like a person undecided
with a prescription unpresented
to a chemist. Clothes made from cobwebs
and pickaxe handles
eyes stained by nail polish, the music
only faintly audible 
turning the car at speed
against the flow. A person undecided
with a prescription unpresented to a chemist
think of an empty building as a signifier between
shivering words. Think
of an empty building as a signifier between trembling worlds.
Like a chemist dispensing a prescription
many paintings of the era show Nature
in its most uncanny forms
or the furthest most desolate places on earth.
Such that the music sometimes catches on emptiness
and gloriously sounds out and with eyes stained by nail polish. Georges
Claude September 24, 1870 –
May 23, 1960 was the inventor
of Neon lighting and experimented with a method
for generating energy by pumping cold seawater
from the depths and collaborated with the
occupiers of France in the Second
World War tongue between teeth
intently applying nail polish to fingers turning
the car at speed and a dream of spontaneously combustible
luxury goods stores and furthest most desolate places
an empty building something that sounds
like someone whistling these
hallucinations are not uncommon therefore
many paintings of the era, hidden from the eyes
of any passing angels, we have concluded, then, that
the most reverend Order of the Minds around
God, ministered by the perfecting
illumination through its immediate elevation to
it, is purified, and illuminated, and perfected
by a gift of light from the Godhead,
more hidden and more manifest
– more hidden, indeed, as being more
intelligible, and more simplifying, and more
unifying; more manifest, as being a first
gift and a first manifestation, and more
complete, and more affused to it as
transparent. And from this
(Order) again, in due degree,
the second, and from the second,
the third, and from the third,
our Hierarchy, is reverently conducted
to the super-original
Origin and End
of all good order, according to the self-same law
of well-ordered regularity, in Divine
harmony and proportion. That
the music sometimes catches on emptiness
dispensing a prescription
many paintings of the era
at speed and luxury goods store
as a signifier between shivering words,
steam from a kettle
yet dark in the kitchen
gazing at the forms
forming through the window,
the music only faintly inaudible.


(The text includes a quotation from Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite's On the Heavenly Hierarchy, translated by the Reverend John Parker, 1899)

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