XXI. Laisser tomber la neige éclairante

 

XXI. Laisser tomber la neige éclairante

When a hand's phi proportion plucked loop scissors from the half-open vermilion lacquer
Sewing-box, chrysanthemums outside the silkworm's house crackled into a single mon—
Snow Country (1935-7; 1956) recorded onsen powder up her collar, the streak of sika deer in reverse contrast,
Margaret MacDonald's menu card for The White Cockade (1911), with lines of the floating
World in C.R. Mackintosh's plans for the Queen Margaret College Anatomical Department (1894)—
Then deemed a blight upon the locality, or an elegant gaol—Yellow sandstone turned inward, to the casement

Of Leonora Carrington's mind (1937-8); window treatments where late summer wasps went to die, and a casement
Opening to a camera—Its bowlegged surrogate on the wall; beyond, where a dominant white allele (W) of the horse emerges lacquer
Fresh, from being born—Max Ernst is deported to Camp des Milles (1941); thus the void into the sixth département
Of less than two hours, and lifetimes, from Marthe and Pierre Bonnard's Le Cannet, whose diffusely refracted baignoires confer the montmartrois
Seal, bathers as unconscious snowfields, of blanching Chijimi grass-linen, whose weave is most gratified by untouched girls; in contrast
To their surreptitious middles shuttling lives beneath their looms—That know not how to enunciate without a chord floating

Inside—ש, a threefold sign, of a persistent heart's left ventricle, and compartment to the lungs, keeping time on blue sleeper cars—Floating,
Deposited eels in a riverbank disposed from their jelly cells, as when glazing rattles in the casements
Of the returning rains—Aplomb swashes of the Kanagawa wave, after Hokusai (c. 1830) that braces the doors of The Willow Tea Rooms (1896-1917); contrasting
Its coal burning, white fireplace uncovered from a false door—This talk of a distant literature rests unopposed, on Zephyr laid paper beside the lacquered
Ink stone—Harunobu’s Fidelity (Shin), from the "Five Cardinal Virtues"(1767), for the seventh day of the World, collapsed then into an immigrant department
Office recalling the entrance of Herbert Read’s Surrealism (1936), with Eyeless in Gaza (1936)—Sighting the Usui mon

Myōken, the North Star; she avowed that Tuesday (1946)—Setting as a satellite in the right corner of her canvas, the mon
Of the bodhisattva, whose snowy exhalation rides the back of a turtle or dragon, to which is added / Samson Agonistes (1671); yielded, and unlocked (407), as the floating
Cirrostratus in the boughs of Magritte’s L’Oasis (1925); composed Pierre Bonnard’s marriage year—Cloud forms of saturated departments
Forming halos around the Moon, above the spa resort where thread was spun in the snow—By a laminated composite bow (W), behind the archer’s drawn target at the fogged casement—
Awaiting a sibilant password through gapped teeth; the shibboleth for a flowing stream, with the contrasts
Revealed in scores of the lacunar samisen, or the embellished cradle, La Cuna (1949), after two sons, and once again, the Moon is lacquered

In egg tempera—The Aleph (1945); peopled in a nutshell, and querencia of oxen, then to box-frame construction; abolishing vaulted heat escapes, and grounded with lacquered

Floors—Mackintosh Hill House chairs (1903); massive pieces after shōji screens, for the ballet à entrée before the cast-iron fire surround with the mon

Roses, de la cuna á la sepultura—Charles and Margaret Mackintosh worked in watercolor down from the Vermillion Coast, at Port-Vendres, and catchment of his ashes (1928); forming a vague contrast

To the swept soda ash to fix the Ojiya Chijimi’s colors, with pinions of window reflections floating

Into the deep harbor—The Night of the 8th (1987), or Leonora Carrington’s segue to a Japanese department,

Of traces of mineral lights, at the 23.5 degree analemma of the unfinished year, where the nethermost potter’s wheel fastens matter, beyond the view of the casement’s

Maple-viewing party—Towards you, stranger; in the Camellia Room we so often frequent, who gasps at the bands of the Milky Way outside the casement
As if they had been swallowed—Becoming one of the 20 volumes of the tenth century Geoponica, the papered lilies rooting from the swell of a sealed woman; or Chrysaor; here, in the gilt lacquerware—
Issued from a torrent of his mother’s head, with a white stallion—She, who would otherwise remain under cocoon, yet cannot disremember the département
Of Les Nabis, nor undermine the slant of light flecking the earthenware, and prospect of Bonnard’s spread table—Tomoe-mon,
We have already touched, in the Borromean knot, the Mackintosh rose imprint, in a second-long contrast
Coextensive, in the matrix of a letter (ב), and point of reference branded from the square Champollion floated

In his Egyptian grammar (1822)—Likewise contriving the pictogram of your teeth, in retreating advance of snow drifts, and set upon flares on a four-by-four tatami, on which floats her strange canvas with a lactating hyena—
Ossín, as if still lacquered with rainwater, and before being reduced to a departmental curio of Macpherson (1760s),
Whose name means young deer; speaks from your blue dream casement, to justify your devotion, of double gates compounded of ether, of a monocle of the White Horse, from which you cannot dismount, for more than 300 years—