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Innocent Aleph

08 Friday Jan 2021

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Aleph, Gentian, א

We said yes to each other before isolating ourselves in our being. Before sowing the white silences of our innocent Aleph . It is time to withdraw from the visible world.

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Auto Genesis

28 Monday Dec 2020

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Shir Hashirim

You made me a hybrid face

Half flower half roots

Loosen the cracks

And dislocate my sephirot.

The shir hashirim of your chest

Draw a path

Smashes the jaws

Punctures the ground.

Your mouth tears the universe apart

Your hand is rooted in my thoughts

And gushes like a spring.

This is how I see you

With a bird that grows in your left hip

Your auto genesis being born indefinitely

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The holder of wings

13 Sunday Dec 2020

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Ulisse Aldrovandi

I met you a long time ago

It was already so, from the first day

The space swivelled accelerating

The enormous masses were born in an instant

The gaping sun, the shadowy friends lavished

How many years now?

Since then I have shortened my days

I have dispersed the time of the origin

The elongated shadows occupied my night

I still let the mists graze the future with my back turned

What I have read heard seen merge, move away a little more

I was indifferent to catastrophes, I smiled at nothing

I drew portraits of the smell of corridors without a door

You did tear off my second skin under a transparent hood

To see the multitude faces of me

Asking:

Be the holder of wings

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Before the Law

06 Sunday Dec 2020

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Before the Law, Kafka, Kazimir Malevich, קזימיר מלביץ

Enlarge the tunnel

Until you lose sight of its walls

Support the density of the miniaturized world

Invent windows

Spend time looking for the sextant

Listen to the scripts inventing words

That touch the heart and humanize the program

Leave the invisible aside

Put the silence in

Scatter the time from the origin

To the hollows of the microscopic edges

Appearance catches the eye

The mirror eye reflects a thousand available appearances

And only one unnoticed occupies the mind

Appearance are more powerful than substance

Leave space for archives

Enter the infinite present

Time no longer belongs to anyone

Static

Time has eaten Kafka door

Now

Fill the factory of memories

Where disks rust

Stop looking inside

Repeat the program sentences

Build a new field of vision

Where barbarian hordes rushed in

Imposing on silence of desolation

Drowning the flame of the sacred in streams

Leave the birds, and let everything become uniform again

Catch a theory as a parachute

Debate at the bottom of a clay well

קזימיר מלביץ, קומפוזיציה סופרמטיסטית, לבן על לבן

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My sanctuary

01 Tuesday Dec 2020

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sanctuary

My Sanctuary is born in my body

Stands in the hollow of my knots

Draw on the dead leaves

Where words do not resonate anymore.

My sanctuary path is sawdust,

Leaves no mark

The rain suspends its past, whispers the unreal.

My Sanctuary has no door,

No meetings

And burns all notices.

My sanctuary has no clocks

Is far from the roads

Isolated from all satellites

Its useless nights don’t indicate any future.

My sanctuary does not need ornament

It shuts all the voices

Carries a hundred of lost stones.

My sanctuary has deep shadows

drawn from empty labyrinths

Look straight in the face.

My sanctuary is indissoluble

Builds a glass wall against which ladders are set up,

Stops all persistent thresholds,

Turns faults back to the rigid line,

Frees itself from the horizon,

Makes the earth flat again.

My sanctuary hides the view

Says inaudible secrets

Rejects all lies.

My sanctuary does not like crossing

Pours a concrete that never harden

Turns to the lost heights

Brings my wildest hopes

Defeats all wars.

My sanctuary gradually makes me disappearing

Until total absence

Beyond the conceivable which carries me away.

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Secret heliotropism

15 Sunday Nov 2020

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Giacometti, heliotropism, Kardec’s law, sowing


 

As the flowers turn their heads towards the sun,

Thus, by the force of a secret heliotropism

Everything tend to turn towards

The sun of history which is about to be born.

The earth is not interested in anything

That is not seed.

The tree structure

Is the condition of man

To grasp their spirit through the body

Rake in hands

So that something emerges from the massive substance

Of this pure moment: sowing.

I want to be like one of Giacometti sculpture

To have their plastic power

That can heal, assimilate, repair and reconstruct the broken forms.

Sometimes

I wonder if the forest I put between me and people

Get me closer or Way off my privacy

Here we can hear rare birds singing

They make me think that I live from now on so soundless

So disappeared

So buried

I make silence my mythology

I aggregate, I record among the compilation of my life the significant segments.

To discuss you have to go down into a swamp

Words spent in vain return immediately

Like a falling tide of fetid mud

To the heart of the man who spoke them.

I never want to get involved in any ideology

Keep my hands always completely free

Not to enter any bark, not to touch anything directly.

Some may come with mute feet

They enter with no straight line, no injury but I will not touch them.

I have in me this aggressive spring

Glenn Gould spring

To whom one would have broken eight fingers out of ten

My sincerity is to be born, to die, to reborn again and again, progress constantly

Like Kardec’s law from Catharsis.

Nothing can be done against me

With or without merit

I am too established in the spiritual life

For any illusion to have power over my soul.

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Organic nights

03 Saturday Oct 2020

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Etrog, Trumpet

You are crossing my organic nights
Your love for clarity and our bodies
sweeping uncertain bitumen with
our unfinished shadows
Every morning we breathe the fresh air
We lie our faces upon the soft pillow
The richness of Your beauty is all I see
Every drop of rain is our desire upon our outstretched hands
Each hole is road round open
Each house is beehive
and the fruit upon our lips are the more mature
Our silences deliver the heart like rain, frost, the sun, make clay clay
Our inner duration will never stifle bird songs

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The Milky Way

05 Saturday Sep 2020

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Milky Way

We left the city behind
We climbed the frozen summit
Beyond the thicket we continued
Through rocks, mountains, moors, heaths, thorns and darkness.
There in this immensity I suffocated as I saw

How manifest you are in me
Even closer than the lashes of my eyes
Buried between two beats of my heart.
You are this arrow that they tried to pull out

and I kept it with all my strength despite the wound and bleeding.

I showed you the Milky Way in the sky

My soul there was flooded by you
Years passed but you still
You reborn
There will never be an ending

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The two faces

16 Sunday Aug 2020

Posted by S/O in Paul Celan, Poetry, Uncategorized

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Declamation, Keter, Paul Celan

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Eliraz would say to Paul Celan
“Leave the magical solution to the bees”
It’s a long way to the immemorial night of the inverted Keter
No mirror, no window or screen
The song is older than the Declamation.

 

 

 

 

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Timtum Halev

03 Monday Aug 2020

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ego scriptor, Language, Timtum Halev, טמטום הלב

  1. Language is a very thick skin
  2. But all stories are the story of inner surfaces and their metamorphosis.
  3. Behind all the small things that I hear, bigger ones are silent.
  4. Language contains the possibility to fail
  5. Talking blurs. Scrambles;
  6. Thickens the mystery, isolate and isolation is insoluble.
  7. I don’t know how to speak without tripping
  8. Words are powerless
  9. I want the in between: what remains when words are unused.
  10. I only have the usual opacity choice
  11. Persist in the opacity
  12. Hardening my life
  13. I wanted it less armed, without drops
  14. But this severity is for me
  15. Like an ego scriptor.
  16. Language is embarrassing, made of human trivialities
  17. Conversations about conversations, circumlocutions, distortion
  18. While in nature everything is direct, universal, and clear.

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