Ah, this response was meant to be personal to Peter.
Oh well.
Stephen V
>> This is wonderful Stephen!
>>
>> -Peter Ciccariello
>
> Thanks, as always, Peter.
> This is one more in the "Jack Spicer in Glasgow" series - my translations of
> his book "Language" that started in Scotland.
> I am still wondering if this one diverts to too many places.
> But I appreciate your comment the more cause I sense the poetryetc list has
> not cottoned much to this series at all - indeed it's down in there, I
> think, in a 'heavy metal' psychic world which isn't necessarily easy, and
> formally, for some, even some 50 years after Spicer's death, still a
> challenge.
>
> Be well with your own work which continues to intrigue me. Assuming you like
> Philip Guston's later work, too.
>
> Stephen
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
>>
>> On 10/10/06, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Michael before Stephen before David
>>>
>>> Chris the afterthought. Brothers kept separate
>>>
>>> The salt in Tebtunis about the mummyıs mouth
>>>
>>> The Civil Service circa 242 BC stuffed
>>>
>>> Into the belly of the once crocodile. An homage
>>>
>>> To the god (Crocodile). The Civil Service
>>>
>>> Taped shut its own papyri. The proper burial
>>>
>>> Of proper verdicts. Who lost, who regained
>>>
>>> Such and such property. Who made the suit
>>>
>>> And who paid the fine. Unrolled, the crocodile god
>>>
>>> Spoke, still speaks through the lips of the judges:
>>>
>>> The bookkeepers own no genders
>>>
>>> The Pacific breaks up. Those waves go flat
>>>
>>> Under the basalt bluff. He climbs under with his camera:
>>>
>>> An acknowledgement of curves, the disturbance
>>>
>>> In the lava, the salt in the enduring crust:
>>>
>>> The Civil Service rarely pleasures the curve
>>>
>>> Nor the sad divisions, even a death
>>>
>>> Among the brothers. I am here where
>>>
>>> The Columbia bends wide into the Pacific.
>>>
>>> Awe struck, Lewis and Clark did not live long enough
>>>
>>> To fathom loggers, mills, those shredded forests
>>>
>>> The long saw, truck, track and flatcar
>>>
>>> Decade by decade into this moment:
>>>
>>> Those brothers - the fallen - one by one, after them.
>>>
>>>
>>> Stephen Vincent
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