XIX. Le soleil se trouvait les calices

XIX. Le soleil se trouvait les calices

Here, please accept, from a place where this night cannot reach me, an unpretentious card with a glossy country landscape, gilt edging on the sunset clouds, a card scratched by swifts, splashed by a drop of a blossoming pond fragrant with lilac and iodine— from Mikhail Shishkin’s “The Blind Musician” translated by Marian Schwartz, from Calligraphy Lesson: The Collected Stories (2015)

Eclipsed at perigee, from where purple thistles in our blue air burn (1948), in the red scatter praying uninterruptedly

To the orb of the Theban triad, the moonchild the XXIe High Priest of Amun’s wife Neskhons is carrying

At her death at thirty (1069-945 B.C.E.); arranging her outer coffin and linen to the father and eighth

Sovereign, Ramses IX (1111 B.C.E)—Roused, they sighted the red mark and vanishing totality between the noncommunicating vessels of the Great Square of Pegasus and the Circlet of Pisces; unidentified by these designations, however known

To their kas, and by the agapanthus; Neferkare Setepenre, whose image is unspoiled for her, and nearly forgotten, is his robber-broken nose, lassoed on her left ankle—

Beryl has just written, with her wet hair drying, next to Laurence Parmenter, whose legs for her retain the leggiadria Dante attributed to Gabriel (Paradiso 32.109-11), and whose accessory navicular bone of the ankle,

Limited to one tenth of the population, inflames the posterior tendon—She palpitated it; uninterruptedly,

Sustaining a digression on spontaneously subluxated hips in infancy, blessedly absent in their children, with the discovery of double-jointed shoulders when left unattended with handcuffs—Known

By what silkiest blows a sharp thing grows, a voluble anxiety, in this announcement of immortality with the pyramids, or with the veritable eternity of Spanish bayonet broadcast by California wildfires, carried

To the Norman Mailer text scripted so scandalously with the Hebrew (1988)—Who sought to refire the soul's arrow or bowsprit hang glider into lineaments of the beloved, as the fresco cycle of Palazzo Schifanoia attests in carros drawn by cormorants and by monkeys (1469 C.E.), in the 36 decani in angular silks that could be skin flaps astride cosmic objects—Deciding at last, on Khemenu, the eighth

City, together, they exit the upper bedroom, and its pink lamplight, through a slit in the window to enter between

Quartzite baboons of the Temple of Thoth’s missing shell of the Great Goose, a meteorite—The priests having broken eggs on grindstones of the planetismal wake worked by the Kenites, gaze through their eyes upon what Joseph Brodsky’s Flight into Egypt (1995) had seen, the star looked in across the threshold between

The east-west corridor a Russian sage has just passed uncased seeds uncoiled as spiral arteries near a column used as a watering trough—The excavator’s ankle

Length boots are Russian-make; with the rise of Nasser, for catching the facings and turnings of the Minsk lathe of the mate of Marina Alexandrovna (June 1, 1961), who brought her, at nineteen—For eight

Weeks, she revised in improvised English; often with Rachel on her lap (January 1964), how her Uncle Ilya pressed her to go the dance at the worker’s union—Uninterruptedly,

The deep operative, Parmenter puts Oswald’s brig number, nineteen, at the Temple of Amon, Mut, and Khons, in the nineteenth nome, and capital of the XXI dynasty, Imet, the Royal Child, where it is known

Three months after, the Nabokovs tenanted the third-floor, sieve-like rooms of Le Cygne in the Hotel Palace (1 October 1961)

causing the ink to run into Rorschach gouts among the index cards of Ur-Laura Véra carried

All their married life, for bank deposit (1991)—Beryl, imitating one of Bast’s unfilled sacrifices in the shadow of the Campanile di San Marco, spies the copper flash of leeward Gabriel atop his pyramid; bent back and refastened after the collapse of 1902, and curls up to him, at least his shade, like a carried
A child in a rush basket—Despite unfinished work of assembling the evening outside of Campisi's Egyptian Restaurant on Mockingbird, where Jack Ruby throws down a dyspeptic, in addition to the aforesaid scripts registered between
Skin magazines at the pharmacy (22 November 1963)—Mars glowed (681), if to ensure a drilling source in the slopes of the Garni crater in distances intimated by the walking trail of Uetliberg–Felsenegg Planetenweg (1979)—Mobile, and brooding, the doctor of the Swiss workers troubled of what little he divested of their funds for the commissary scoured of staples for cheap vodka, however, it is known
Lydia Kochetkova’s letter just arrives from Archangel (1903), and as her husband Fritz Brupbacher read, as if he himself rubbed the pang in each pair of tibial plafonds and malleoli forming the talar mortises of her ankles,
In perpetuity, from the looped thong sandal of the ankh—Asking the flowers, silver under water (1948) to guide their footsteps back together, from her laboratory after hours redrying filtrates through a pierced porcelain funnel patented by the nephew of Georg Büchner, the latter whose moon-scythe swifts roosting in the indestructible night tower anchored with star moss (1828)—Unmentioned; the notwithstanding internee at Fluntern, Abderhalden (1950), whose vacuum drying pistol (1906) flummoxed all uninterruptedly
Failing the apparatus, as for their prospects in the field, whose investigation of racial-assortative, Abwehrfermente of the placenta drove his critic, and kinematist, first applying an azo dye for near-complete cell confluency, Janus Green B (1900), Leonor Michaelis, to Baltimore (1926), and then the Rockefellers (1929)—Four to eight

Days, the Ogdoad of Hermopolis Magna fertilized such chaos, with both monochorionic and dichoronic cords to their compartments, as the blue lotus cathects impermeable droplets on its notched leaves, blooming with the day cycle—Eight
Pulsating octets still short of purity absorbing the matter’s thistles to bud seed pearls—Beryl hesitated to mention the soap-lured vundu catfish further down in Lake Nasser; drawn by the rendered end of their lye-washed swaddling clothes, for prey of a comparable size; the flower constellations of the babushka’s headscarf, and the man who carried
The umbrella in Dealey Plaza, she had since seen, everywhere—Akhmatova’s While Listening the Singing (1961), the sparrows going for something on the table, uninterruptedly—
Celan confides he is prisoner of these poems…and sometimes their jailer (February 1951) before accepting the Büchnerpreis (1960), for which Meridian lecture pronounces the duration, at last, a breath-turn, Atemwende—The Venetian printing in the house of Zuan di Gara, Sefer Minhagim (1593) containing the zodiac and the names since creation (7 Oct 3761 B.C.E), was compiled during the Prussian Inquisition of migratory Inzabbatati, sabotiers by Peter Zwicker (d. 1403)—Between

Seeming heresies the Waldensians implied by willed poverty at their brooms, and Rachel, who flees with the teraphim; ratam, Arabic for broom, yet it is not the stones rattling in her camel bag; known

For being niched in lararia, beneath which bowed imbrices and tegulae dripping rainwater thrive the Maidenhair fern; palisaded far from the Seven Hills, depicting the worshipped-against serpent Apep, of both the solar barque and snake out of which the Sun is born, each morning, and the birth with an issue of blood at the eclipses—No, the keeper of Lavan’s herds with hypermobile ankles

And hips making up for the first-born’s unshakeable sinews with cunning, wept at the story of the buried pouch contents inset into a breastplate, as with a priest of Ma’at on his linen, with the four-corned by three atmospheric dimensions of Duat, with the anguish of Darius (550–486 B.C.E) whose Egyptian physicians could not restore his ankle (III.129)—

Told by Rachel’s son, Joseph, dining with viziers, of the answerer, ushabti, from the sixth spell’s animation surpassing what had taken his father fourteen years—Kahun, whose great surviving medicinal papyri survive where its XII dynasty king despaired at the instability of the black remnants of Dahshur, retreated to burial at the marshes of Fayuum, prescribe the placement of mud for magnesium, and Tefnut’s blessing at the seventeenth nome, between the thighs of Neskhons—In her second trimester, overseeing the freshly painted 125th and 126th incantations on second corridor of Ramses IX, when he stopped breathing, and the loss that followed such shock—Neither would be interred in the eighth

Chamber (KV VI) breached by Baron Édouard de Villiers du Terrage and Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois (1800)—She bribed the priest for the first night, and every subsequent thought was given over of the child, Khonsu’s alignment at this, this eclipse—Going forth of the calf of Horus around a small unlovely need she supplied this body, from which the ba bird is tethered and known

To nest, by this drop of blood from the maternal heart at conception—Neskhons encounters her gravid corpse in the curling onycha smoke of the Temple, with the child she carried

By the Pharaoh flying over Damanhur, the seventh nome, Hermopolis Parva, on the Antonine Itinerary, where Horus was born—23 October 1593, the Medici Terra del Sole’s ramparts boast, even with patronage of Galileo, whose hand-blown vessels lift their spirits's mixed densities in a thermoscope, the senselessness of hermetic wall paintings, such as Ferrara’s—Uninterruptedly,

Awaking within view of the twin huei teocalli, Gil Pérez conveys the slaughter of the Governor of Manila, Dasmariñas, to an unspeaking witness with a dew-fed hummingbird in torpor tucked within the left fold of her dress; Huitzilopochtli, mistaken first, for a ball of feathers—Before he is jailed as a deserter, Malinche recognizes his tongue, and goes to sleep between

Her legs—As from Coatlicue; crawling from seven caves of Chicomoztoc, to found with his brother, the city built on water, Tenōchtitlan—Beryl and Laurence, speaking between themselves, adjourn the fate of one projectile as the source of seven wounds in two men until 2017, through the angulus made of their respective ankles—

Picturing, pushing back the eighth floodgate of themselves, and watched over by four baboons, there is Nineteen Hundred Nineteen‘s Aeon (September 1921) in The Doodler (1959)—

Each is walking the solitary steps to the pinnacle, and holding back the trepidation from the water handrails of la Casa de Retiro Éspiritual composed of three-thousand pieces conceived in 1975, and assembled thirty years later, in view of a lake in Córdoba surrounded by olive trees, from which their Mind’s Eye flutters to the cursive of a dove in the colina, beneath, where each is carried and known—