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Inquiry: first case study.
Michel Foucault's
Liberty as a form of ethos

i.

do not combat me as a man
of power
I am
as you see

a man of
knowledge
solitary and
self-inquisitorial

a structure made
of ruins
a pile of debris
- that is
history -
possessed by an everlasting
ache, infected by wonderings.

yet, the circumstances
prove me
guilty,
a poignant mask
resting on a whole
system of power
standing on meditations and treatises
as on a stage a flight of stairs
where to be asked
scrupulous confessions

or else striding with a spectral façade
in mute serenity
as in an arena
of white cobbles populated by the soft sound
of connaisance.

thus,
come to me,
measure the width of my chest,
the length of my arm, detect and value
the strength in my palm
and the perfect roundness of my throbbing knuckles

which belong to non-admitted practises
to the single
passing of the hand from
a dreamt revenge to a luminous punishment.


Erminia Passannanti