I. Soutenue

I. Soutenue

"Valéry wrote of Leonardo, 'Cet Apollon me ravissait au plus haut degré de moi-meme.' I was too ravished with permanent effect—perhaps carried beyond my mental means. But Valéry had added a note in the margin: 'Trouve avant de chercher.' This finding before seeking was my special gift. If I had any gift."  —Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift (1975)

"The making of a shell is something lived, not something calculated: nothing could be less like our organized action, preceded by an aim and operating as a cause…"

—Paul Valéry, L’Homme et la coquille (1937)

Doubly staring, so as to have nothing but the hawthorns between provisions
We singly entered; enucleated, conjoined gray whale calves in Hare Eye lagoon—
Silver-ion infused with Death’s freshness—Fabergé branches of rock crystal or amethyst,
Where is your bitter girl—Dense stem-celled strawberry hemiangioma inclusions—
Pre-Nectarian lunar hare burning into olivine basalt—Smoked quartz, or black oak pith
Tannery drain-off; and citrine, green tea's polyphenol motif for the glucocorticoid

Blockade of memory—Transcriptional NFκB sets the aching tesserae and glucocorticoid
Cortisols—Putative admixtures of inflammation, for the stag hunt Gnosis created making provisions—
As blowflies trapped by fine hairs of rubicund carrion flowers, the golden cattle were pithed—

Meditations on capillary bridges of gas bubbles in flow-banded rhyolite infilling glacial lagoons
From L’Azur (1864)—Destruction was my Beatrice—For Bellow’s Citrine (1975), her irises are amethyst

Crystals left beneath moonlight to charge—Rodin’s plaster Last Judgment (1880); and faceted inclusions,

Cut to seem homogenous, lower left of the Thinker in place of the Judge—Francesca da Rimini, whose inclusive

Buss incites purpura as from an immune complex, from Dante’s perso, from perdere—The corticosteroid,
Dexamyl, 25 times more potent than cortisol, or amphetamine Dexamil—Each a sobering amethyst
Exerting its therapeutic action on Demmie’s resonant Conversations with Eckermann (1836); its provisions,

For Nietzsche, making it the best book there is—Aptly, M. Rapin is dispensing, triturating orris pith,
Perfumer’s fixative, near the church in Combray, where they go to cool their purple—Raw from lagoon

Seasoned talk of May-December marriages—Congested cheeks; and who else but Albertine on a colonized lagoon
Bed, with hat removed, displaying all the delicate tracery of foliation, is Renata—Inclusive

Of Paul Claudel’s contempt for Rodin’s usage of his sister—Stone cells underlie the pear pith

Imparting a sand-like texture; for Citrine, rebirth in her deep-thighed inlet exhaling an issue of glucocorticoid—

Naked under her coat, for a room’s hourly rate, the brickwork’s drawn shade—Graded as an amethyst

As a carnal artist she was disheartening as well as thrilling, which could be Castor on Toulouse, the provisional

Mistress emptying her bladder—Cardea, hinge of the door of the year, and mistress of Janus; her provisional
Hawthorn, where the sawfly and cockchafer lie dormant—Volume five, le roman d'Albertine, a cloisonné of the Veneto lagoon—

Outlined in the manner of brittle, steel-gray beryllium compounding aquamarine, or amethyst

Quartz heated to deepen color— Combray’s May flowering, the hawthorn’s intense organic life inclusive
Of Florent Illiers, companion of the Saint bearing an ensign whose field was sown with lilies, and a conscience pithed

By May reexamination, adjuration, sacrifice (1430-1431)—Following Albertine’s riding accident; Marcel—A maternal dearth of glucocorticoids

Perhaps marring fetal lung surfactant—Repairs to Venice with his mother, having raised glucocorticoids

For arousal, memory, his entire life—La garçonne’s cropped hair and pinioned arms provisional

Of the chauffeur, in a soldiering girl’s armor with shell-like fulcra—Albertine, whose compact pith
And heartwood suited for gravure, by whom each is paired balking a fence or fire—As one who respires draining lagoons,
Fed by red-lined chicory blanched in running water to the connoisseur’s bitterness—By Amethyst,  

The first soaked woman feasting with panthers—Through the North to South ambulacrum of her uterus inclusive

Of the ogive windows of Combray, whose shadows surged glucocorticoids inclusive of the Southeast corner of San Marco’s porphyry Tetrarchs—Chantal Ackerman recovers this lagoon-reek and pith

Of La Captive (2000) in a descent by water—There, our green tea sachet’s polyphenol is a provision of hawthorn's ever-present gravitation between disassembled grief and incorporated amethyst—