IV. Quatre femmes [sur la terrasse près de la mer]

IV. Quatre femmes [sur la terrasse près de la mer]

Bow downward, into Tethys’s Cenozoic saltwater lightering tarpaulins and levered tins of sulphur
Candles fumigating grocers since Victorian tiled hospitals and manor vestibules—Off the same estuarine
Wavefronts as the late Whistler’s butterfly; impressit oculi, antennae, overtaken by a broadening proboscis—Here, Grace’s
Sightings exclaim notes, nocturnes; even more, from a sketch (c.1870) of Nenna James, from behind, who is the unheard fifth
Of a madrigal of Pomponio Nenna’s (1556–1608) performed as the quatuor lead approaching the campanili
Of tall chimneys of Wandsworth—Having left behind the Alexandrine lust of Canto XI once called strength, our ship manifest cleaves the ring of Dis, with Pisces rising on Holy Saturday—Botanizing

Submerged brimstone’s dried flowers soonest applied to apple scab, or to fireblight in loquat pots—Botanizing
On far-between free days, where James Paget is heartened by a description of trichinosis (1835) from a muscle biopsy of a man frozen in the station of the emperor’s crossed legs of sulphur,
The hanged man, of not choosing St. Bartholomew’s of William Harvey, consulting to James I (3 February 1608); the asklepieion within earshot of the campanile
Of St. Bartholomew the Less—Passing Hogarth each morning, whose full aspect is taken from the top of the stairs, and whose murals were undertaken without payment against the Venetian Amigoni—The Pool of Bethesda (1736) implies both a house of mercy and shame of the afflicted—Among confines of the estuarine
Rises of the North Sea that dismasted the Minotaur (1793), with the nine-pounders Turner left off his studies of merchant ships (1810)—Willis, the old salt, regales its Lieutenant captain and tame howling wolf borne down from no assistance offered in the Dutch shipping lane from Gothenberg—In the wrought iron and teak of splintered gunwales of withheld Grace
At the Battle of Aboukir (1801)—Giorgios Seferis reaches Cyprus, where it was ordained (1953) upon arrival, where the archer, Teucer perceives an unfilled tunic, as Trocchi’s gaze into the Clyde's menacing reflection of Young Adam (1954), and under Jean Blanche, Helen and Desire (1954); befitting Crowley and Lady Frieda Harris's fifth

Atu propped on an uneven decknail—The celestial womb of all Nuit nine-starred by the hierophant to manifest what is meant; announced in Mahler’s Fifth
Symphony (1901-2) in three movements, under Leonard Bernstein’s direction as heart attacks, botanizing
Coronaries of the Sixth Symphony’s marriage, indicative of the Word rather than the mere hunger to perform; the Book of Thoth graces
The London public with the Sun in Aries at zero degrees coincidental with the spring tide of 1944, whose emperor and empress, and cupid’s quiver bossed with Thelema, throw mauve patterns of the Great Work retrieved down there as purple spindrift, while green and purple sulphur
Bacteria respire—Dissolve Istrian stones of Visconti’s Morte a Venezia (1971), in the same decided interval of Cavani’s Il portiere di notte (1974),  of the stripped player's hair cropped in a boy’s style, over the horn solo of the Adagietto—Wilhelmina Stirling, displacing a ghost from her gilt chair, considered the four vertical and four horizontal lines of five tiers of Giotto's campanile
Exempt at first calculation that contained the diamond and hexagonal lozenges of Gubbio maiolica studied by her sister’s husband, William de Morgan—Turning the estuarine

Reclamation of Small Gains over in her hands—Two ruby lustre tiles worked tirelessly in their reductions borne up from estuarine
Incursions of World’s End, of the Moravian cemetery, buried up to their necklines to receive the thrown cordage after the forty-fifth
Day of Judgment—From the expanded chinaworks of Merton Abbey (1882) to Fulham, until interior realities; with the rich glow of a jewel’s heart, botanizing,
Receive the grace of application—Ben, that is, largest of the five bells of the London campanile
Intones in crossing under the cable-stayed span of the North bank to Cheyne Walk, where Elizabeth Blackwell composed four plates a week in parity bits through the partitions to her physician husband, who, with the grace
Of debtor’s prison, sources the Latin descriptions of A Curious Herbal (1737-1739)—Among which the loquat establishes the Chelsea Physick Garden, from the teeming hold of the HMS Dolphin (1768), and then Endeavor (1771); the latter of which was deployed by the fifth Astronomer Royal, and by minding the deck Almathea, to Tahiti for the Transit of Venus (3 June 1769)—As if drawn burst from a translucent womb of sulphur

The black oil drop is flowing now like the current hand-rolled coltsfoot cigarettes of Mrs. Stirling’s shadow, which fans the Lovers from her deck; again, pointing to the grayish Orphic egg between the twins—Before Eurycleia assents her scarred host draped in goat the order to fume sulfur
In the women’s rooms, her eyes cun; from sailing, he is aground, on her island of twenty years before, and it is Penelope’s dream fulfilled (XIX.476)—James Cook, having dislodged a coral boulder (1770) from the hull, settled within the estuarine
Great Barrier harboring the unknown land of the South—Except for cassias, lemons, and loquat trees contained in the soft estate of highway A8 that Jim, on the coal scuttle, dreamt of finding there; aided always by the lamps of philodendrons, Matisse completes this vision, if off-centered, in its majesty, with a vase of gardenias, Fauteuil rocaille (1946)—Where the skin burning candle end elates, Love’s fluency renames lichen, a winter staple of caribou, with algae, its preserving Grace
Lining a hummingbird cup, as Victor Hugo’s bird child belonging to the blue hour (1865), just after the green flash, as Ithuriel, conceived by Evelyn de Morgan (1900)—Two notes caught in space a perfect fifth
From Berthe Morisot’s Bois de Boulogne, or the common of Millais’s Dew-drenched furze (1889-90)—Of the Landstrasse Belvedere, whose patinated rooftop twinkles into green and gold, as was it from In Memoriam A.H.H., XI (1850), of the last nocturne of Arthur Hallam (1833) at the nearby Golden Pear—Further botanizing,
Lichen, wrapped on their birches, oaks, and elms as hallucinations, reacts to the sulfoxide showers carried by cars, as a campanile

Bioindicators of our own inculcation of the 16th element, for sulfur bridges, as the pre-1978 Floridsdorfer bridge, our couple sets off, now, into each other's arms—Stonewashed to pallor with confinement, after the campanile

Of St. Stephen’s sounds, where Beethoven saw the birds flying from the housing of its 23 bells; with its linen measure of a man’s arm, the ell, embedded in the wall—A human cell completes but five of its 47 divisions after birth using a pair of sulphur

Acids, crystallized as fire, where the shin composes three nails lighted by the saliva of yod—When I first laid down with you, in a flat Thames boat without a keel, our close reading that only comes from a life raft of strangers, contained Wagner and the Linke Wienzeile No. 40 Majolikahaus, to my senses washed out from the silks from the Woolworth’s at King’s Road—Botanizing,

Realize that it is the hotel on the corner, Wienzeile No. 38, encrusted with golden palms, where they wait awake all for this moment, where the estuarine

Blooms—Channeling Wilhelmina Stirling, for her sister’s copy of Botticelli’s Flora (1900), not to think it was for the island where Captain Cook died; tracing biwa tea, or Florentine nespolino, the pit’s liqueur, or the rust and indigo chaffinch gracing

A fork in the grove; a nest smoothed in lichen—For Floralia, 28 April to 3 May, from the Fifth

Fasti; Evelyn de Morgan, citing the Ovidean Botticelli refrained, for the Olenus flower to the daughter of Saturn contriving conception of Mars (V.229)—Averring; stem-temperate against the weather, campanili, obelisks, columns opposing crescents of sea and queuing the eye of the needle, φ of latitude—Whistler’s sketch, if the life drawing had fallen into our own laps, among two others is as Sibylline, signifying the solar return of one, the fifth day

After Ides, March 20, Isis and the birth of Harpocrates, for the time of resuming sailing the sulphurous cables thrown out from estuarine overreach of the Nile into the Mediterranean to Magna Grecia—

The last, your contemporary, is celebrated on February 19th; born on the cusp of Pisces, the middle of nine days of gifts of wine-soaked bread and violets to the Manes, whose collective D.M., dis manibus on Roman headstones nod in the discourse of the founding cemeteries of New England, and without concluding the strangeness of this ceremony, then chiastic Milton, Love without end, and without measure Grace (III. 140-42)—