V. Verser des larmes

V. Verser des larmes

Leonardo’s problem was well summed up by Pope Leo X, who once saw him engrossed in trying to create the perfect formula for varnish instead of painting: “This man will never do anything, for he begins by thinking about the end before the beginning of his work.” –Mark Kurlansky’s Paper: Paging Through History (2016)

The Tuesday “heart of the heart” image was taken when New Horizons was 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers) from Pluto, and shows features as small as one-half mile (1 kilometer) across. –NASA New Horizons (17 July 2015)

It was falling on their hands in hot, opaque drops. But he would not look at her face yet. –Patrick White’s Voss (1957)

Chapter Arte de la lengua de Mechuacán—GAME PLAYED WITH ROSES AS IF WITH BALLS—Tsitsiqui apantzequa chanaqua –Fray Maturino Gilberti (1558) from Álvaro Enrigue’s Muerte súbita (2013) Sudden Death (2016) translated by Natasha Wimmer

With bitterness, and gill arches bowed into lapping the dry heat, Leichhardt finds the foreign cutting of himself, the clavate Rose of Heaven

In a Tanami oasis; reflecting on what remains of the trip taking him from Darling Downs, the same polishing the un-fireable rifle’s nameplate (1848, 1993)—Nich auch Rosen gebettet of his younger self strewing the same hearth ash in his snow trodden steps, and then the ship routes notable for signaling termination of mid-ocean throes maintained kilometers beneath the heart of Pluto at accretions of radioisotopes, where methane ice sublimates, maroons its nearest satellite; at this juncture, docking by Bengal lights of sulphurated antimony—

Scent of her entrance from the dyspeptic Bonner aunt steamed in mastic lozenges monopolized trees yielding by their fifth year the tears of Chios—

Further evidence there is no life outside of Göttingen; Theodor Benfey’s readings from what became the 1859 manuscript of the five sections of the Pañcatantra (300 B.C.E.), in the Sanskrit nine numbers and null to thus enlarge their meaning, on the Navagrahas holding the world in place, Shani, Mangal, and Śukra 

In that order undertake the work of man, beast, and immobile domiciliary—Catherine of Bragança, for the advantage of Portugal; leaving behind (1668) thirteen named consorts, proceeds to Lisbon with elder Holbein’s

Fountain of Life (1519), and further still, for the miradouros of Eugène Green’s La Religieuse portugaise (2009)—Rosetta belly-flops onto its comet (30 September 2016); at Aleppo, the destruction of the Arabic press founded under the patriarch of Antioch, the year of Catherine of Bragança’s internment at Igreja de São Vicente de Fora (1705), the city becomes an abyss of mercy of those looking on somehow at fault for it, for a refrain of improvident giving just as thawed carbon dioxide tops 400 ppm—Reduplication of a sutra attains a diamond’s clarity for the universal distribution on behalf of Wang Jie’s parents the 13th of the 4th moon of the 9th year of Xiantong (11 May 868) fueled on trellised Schisandra chinensis—

Chronicled in the Dunhuang medical manuscripts; romanized, red-lettered in the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (250 C.E.) as wu-wei(zi), Schisandra chinesis,

The five-flavor fruit, where nadicakras compel the greater ox-cart by an astringent end taste of the pancha mahabhutas of air and earth, to inhale a trace of viscid essential oil of dentist eugenol, the Rose of Heaven,

Silene coeli-rosa—A relation of clove pinks; among other Caryophyllales, cacti and carnivorous plants, the latter’s most extreme economies without non-coding transcripts and low nitrogen needs for space; naturalized to the Mediterranean, (1869) upturning the thin soil of the Rhine knee, which contained Christ (1520-22) in Basel by the Younger Holbein—

The second millennium’s Phaistos disk (d. 3 July 1908) syllabary (2015) with 45 signs printed on fired clay call to mind an Egyptian senet boards’s equidistant passing, particularly, the last five steps within eternity’s reach, as they assume a labyrinthine guise purportedly from the Sea Peoples's fly-by-night of Crete—The lag between the prayer to Astarte and the blue holographic panel that now spotlights Charon in Futura Extra Bold Condensed, an atavism from McLuhan’s Typographical Man (1962), the Moon landing (July 1969), relied on the pattern for Europe as it shoves off with a modified wine press—Of Fust and debtor Gutenberg’s dual-row 42-line typescript (1450) of beaten tin and lead alloy braced by an impurity of antimony—

What became of the pioneer ball and hoop and husk doll; appraised first by the son of Nyx, and arbiter of Athena’s abode, Poseidon’s bullock, and Hephaestus’s figure of earth, Pandora, anticipates the display case of the mirror, works, and gear (Thunderclown, 2011)—The exhibit’s catalogue consistent with the newspaper headlines in Futura Bold (2011) distributed among the Collioures of Saturn divested for Pluto—Earth’s youth is dispatched; not by the uncontrolled use of recombinant smoke and synthetic spirit finishes, but the administered reversers, or elephant tranquilizers, in the thoroughfares—Spoonsweet in the gravel gnawed by Homer at Xios,

Conchoidal gum dissolved in camphor and turpentine, with triturated glass for polish, for opuses with proceeds from Giustiniani mastiha groves—Of the Roman tennis court, and a future volley of Boleyn's balled hair, advances for the insolvent Philip II, el Prudente, for the Genovese excavation of New Spain (1492)—Steered by Inquisition emigrants of Portugal and Spain disallowed to overstay in Genoa for three nights—Funded chiaroscuros of Caravaggio's far underway already in Wittenberg, by two or three discrete pressings; a method revived by Picasso, further than Degas’s played at intaglios—Manet (1863), reckoned for his déjeuner’s tranquil party, lies broken into vectors inside the Minotaur's mind, and the microphone bleed of Śukra’s

Essence—Grassed in the minotauromachy of the thirties’s etchings, its maker wanting to suck the marrow of standing waves of steroids on their lustrous faces fitting heme and globin; erythroid colonies four splits from maturation—Of course, there was the vitiation of the carbon sinks of Venus, from its winding pentagonal rosette’s 8:13 resonance at last revealed in a snap of the orange terminator and super-rotated winds taken (7 June 2016)—After five years by the Akatsuki probe; an obverse of dawn, and the Götterdämmerung, Ōmagatoki, blocked  in the series by Toriyama Sekien (1788)—Schisandra chinensis

To constrain leakage across the meridians following the transition of being mere onlookers to waived parties wandering lacunae of warped time—Fra Mauro’s map (1450) commemorates by the crater Apollo XIII (1970) would have put down, and in its itineraries another transmigration to Plutonic Ayutthaya, where a fifteenth century nun of Mosteiro de Jesus embroiders egg yolk into tears; auspicious for a wedding, thong yot, and revived there by head cook, Maria Guyomar de Pinha (1703)—Numbered with the Genovese Chios

Supplying Pistacia resin for censers, and then to keep the victual afterlife of TT 320, the first millennium Third Intermediate Period cachette untaken until the XXI dynasty retinue of the High Priest of Amun, Pinedjem I—With the entwined lotus in the last stages of flowering plucked for the flight up the Theban necropolis, Neskhons, with the already entombed Ramesses XI in the audience, and just before their Kas abscond, the packet switches—Cosimo de' Medici commissions him to enclose the Florentine ghetto (1570), after which came the adaptation of the evaporative cooling of the Persian yakhchal into an icehouse pyramid for provision of chilling the custard base of gelati—Bernardo delle Girandole Buontalenti, whose ingenuity with incendiaries expand the treatise on mine-works of Vannoccio Biringuccio, the latter codifies in Pirotechnia (1540), in the girandole firework sprays announcing the Pope’s election and feast days after 1481 on the battlements of the Castel Sant’Angelo, again, for the Medici wedding (1589), where the stage master sets the players of intermedi to rival in acting, as they rose from heaven

Among the audience on automated chariots and hydraulic jets—L’Eclisse (1962), down to the drowned wooden stake of many pinioning the grass shades of misgiving scaffolding, which yields the impression of Matisse’s burlap Swimming Pool (1952)—Hers is an interior of grass-cloth, when its translator places the travertine tile of a campion between the series, with color plates of one of the Palazzo Barberini fourth wedding portrait of Enrico VIII (1540), imposing as the Thyssen-Bornemisza half-length portrait in Madrid (1536)—The Holbein

Shelters with the Giustiniani Judith (1599), and the latter's error perhaps from observing the mannaia’s abridged parabola of the beheading of Beatrice Cenci (11 September 1599)—While anticipating his own sentence, Caravaggio studies the woodcut alphabet of La danse macabre d'Holbein (1545), whose gambler poses in the manner of The Calling of St. Matthew (1559), a canvas his patron Cardinal Barberini comprehends, the results of his loaned book by the pittore del Maria Bourbon del Monte—After that malarial enclave, Urban VIII (1623) justifies three bees reiterated by Bernini with the tiara and keys, his twenty-one years to the hive of projects, and his alchemist, the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, a purging of star regulus of antimony—

Isolation of which consumes much of Newton’s speculations on natural philosophy (1669); the alchemical femininity, which gives the Egyptian stibnite kohl, and the Sanskrit hue of heavy clouds, antimony—

At 0.224 eccentricity, seventeen degrees from the Solar disk, and two for three orbits of Neptune—Presently, the bluest spot in the galaxy from the viewfinders seamed with liquid diamond waves, adds the chip encyclopedist of unspoken interests, as it sounds the Proto-Indo-European sequence of Varuna to Ouranos with headings of parturition, mutilation emendations, the brightest son of Varuna and Usha that is Venus, Śukra—

Looking skyward from our ninth remove, the dwarf abounding as Saturn in polygonal cells, where formerly [...] light up between / Earth and Venus / On the courthouse lawn, / Kept by this cheerful / Inch of green (1985)—Downplaying the nitrogen and methane haze that thickens with a long approaching perihelion, with cryoalgae to deflect solar winds; their flumes maintained by those same precision cameras reproving there, in the double portrait, the globe the Tropic of Cancer misaligns—Coinciding with the oldest dated cifra in the New World (25 June 1532) sent by Cortés—The octagonal knotted pile on the field of a turkey rug submits the Peace of Nuremberg (1532); hereto the signature of Holbein’s

Ambassadors (1533)—The furtive memento mori is at first taken for the fourth wall essayist, whose heavy-handed quill would later tear at mitsumata paper; finding no use for it, the feminine constituent with mulberry bark and naturally sized gampi for a calligraphy brush—Paperbush ally of thyme, Edgeworthia, named for the botanist sibling of Maria Edgeworth, novelist and periphery of the Lunar Circle (b. 1750),  of the triune of washi, and a prevailing medium as sutras and pharmacy, if once surpassing scraped hide and castoff clothes until the markets of Asia open the imperial entities of India brought with Catherine of Brangança’s dowry, then Dutch Formosa, at last obtaining the vermilion seal of the shogunate (1609)—Lignin adaptogens of Schisandra chinensis

Compound antioxidants essential to Plutonic living milled at this gravity—Having left half of all terrestrial microbiota, which bears a reintroduction as spa decontamination, that once scourged in the manufacture of printing reams—Charles Tennant patents his lime and chlorine strewing salt to make best use of his bleaching fields (23 January 1798), and thereto steeped in both sterile gauze and wound cavity, household porcelain gravy boat and bath, yet proved an ineffective oxidant to overwhelming ocean viruses at solar maximum—Rembrandt’s secret is that he varnished his plates with calcined Chios

Tears—Argued in the manner of resonant astrology from Lucifer’s arguments; logical within their construct, John Milton relates the first Hebrew printed book following the address to the Lord Protector (October 1655)—Samuel Manasseh Ben Israel's Piedra gloriosa o de la estatua de Nebuchadnesar (1655); the latter decidedly acting as a defender of the first faith, on the depths of four of Rembrandt’s etchings, readmits the Israelites to the Commonwealth (1656)—The artist himself, was exposed to Moses de Léon’s thirteen-petaled rose of heaven

From the Amsterdam printer formerly known as Manoel Dias Soeiro; the Zohar (1305); first mass printing at Mantua 1556, shaping Woman with a Pink (1660s), whose sitter Elizabeth of Delft holds the actual rose of heaven—

Having Marco Polo’s foresight (1295) to have his plunder already converted into gemstones; all the while clutching the rose-shaped emerald, the quetzal scapular destined for Doña Juana de Zúñiga’s line—Both of which wind their way in Francisco de Quevedo’s lineman, the duke of Osuna, PedroTéllez de Girón (1599)—Cortés dictated in Cartas de relación (1525-6), the one who has descended like an eagle, Cuauhtémoc, then interjected La Malinche—Traveling in the hold as a stowaway from Orizaba; the mother their son Martín fails to send back for his father’s favor, dreams of holding cuauhtlatoani’s feet to the fire, while even less guilt-wracked as her liege than by the subsequent death of two horses at Puerto de Caballos (1524)—The Aztec king curses in the royal dialect, siuamichi, sirena, the fishwoman enjoined with priests who splits the land—Exiled in Seville (1539), Marina seeks out the same imprint of a dolphin harpooned or harnessing a ride on an anchor seal of the Aldine press carried by Bernal Díaz; awkward with his trunk library, by the most priceless thing he owns, an italicized Sonetti e Canzoni (1501), and she lives on Sputnik Planum to see the Chinese mined antimony

Trisulfide, silver (I) oxide as it ignites another feast day, a Dravidian spawned as an Egyptian, and a gypsy, in the mercado, informs her that it is the manosila of the Rāmāyaṇa (5114 B.C.E.), matching with sensitizing saltpeter and sulfur blue Bengal fire—Quevedo, fainting from the serve directly into the dedans recites Seneca’s quotidie morimur - we die every day- the same who disputed the moral sufficiency of Ariston of Chios (b. 320 B.C.E.)—

Soneto X. Una Mina, Quevedo ripostes to the tenebrist off the court; just as well to Augustus’s mother (1599) you bleed luminous metals / from the mountain’s veins—Metabolites at submerged fumaroles on the tholin bespattered dunes spin in a fine draft of sepia ink ecologized by Polidoro da Caravaggio (1493-1543); awaiting a seed of splendor in its unremitting germination, for the next Amborella genome doubling event that puts to sail as florets the phosphor of Prassinos, C’est vert, as it was written in the Sūrya-siddhānta (6 C.E.), the measured 224-day revolution of Śukra—

Missing from the expanded yellow giant, the voyage from Saturn and closer to the Primum Mobile, and into the fourth projection without turiya—Frames dated 10-21 luglio at the Borsa Italiana's pocked colonnade of Hadrian’s Temple, the perforated steel drum, and suddenly, the facsimile of William Lilly’s astrological hieroglyphic of the Great Fire (2 September 1666), with the Moon and Jupiter in Pisces tilting planetary Scales—Teresa of Ávila’s four ways of drawing water (1562) drawn from the mem of negating mavet and Mwt, the Canaanite underworld—Holbein the Younger’s

Portrait of Nicholaus Kratzer (1528), horologist and astronomer to Henry VIII, discloses the mien of a colleague once again called from the family of Thomas More to calculate trajectories as the diplomatic houses duel; rosa de los vientos, off the angles of the first bounce, ex primo resultu, per the court of Charles V and its commentator, Juán Luis Vives (1539), who is engaged by Catherine of Aragon for a tract on educating pious women (1524; revised 1538)—Of the chase that leads to his flight to Porte Ercole (18 July 1606), Caravaggio castrates the deceived lover whose child Tomassoni would have by her, Fillide Melandroni; the Spaniard years before mishears cross-court as the scheming badger, melandro—Further treachery as the Magdalene (1598), who twirls the orange flower; as her sister Martha gapes at her embroiderer’s wound, before an alabaster sponzarol filched from Vincenzo’s toilet, and the same item mortifying Yuan calligraphers when Marco Polo reveals usage of their porcelain seal pot of cinnabar for a cosmetic jar—Merisi signals her ascent from the rectangle from the bottom of the well’s convex mirror in the canvas in Giustiniani inventory, a portrait of a courtesan named Fillide (1638)—From another mystic marriage of Siena and Alexandria, St. Catherine (1380) is supplied with a stiletto (1598); set here to pray at her wheel, into Jeanne d’Arc’s siege (May 1429)—Marco Polo, summoned by the royal calligraphers to the inaugural chrysanthemum of unmoving stars, mixed with salt money of Khubilai (1294 ), is that evening shown the mystery of Han contrapposto and Lysippus’s Roman copies carted from the Hippodrome; seeming alongside soldiers in now utilized magnetic moments of Han purple’s barium copper silicate in the burial of Shi Huangdi (d.210 B.C.E)—Where the five letters of Soror Mariana Alcoforado (1665-7) are translated into German by Rilke (1913) in order to provoke just such an opening in time (1641)—Schisandra

Berry’s astringent for exacerbated heart and kidney yin; however, useless against an intracellular obligate, the oxidant scavenging Schisandra chinensis—

A portent of the Ming dynasty, following a plague epidemic whose victims fell too hastily to be inscribed on the turtle-bearing stele (1641); the form taken by Visnu’s second incarnation, Kūrma, at the churning of the ocean of milk bringing forth desirous faculties and the capitulating body; Visnu incarnated as fish, of the lunar nodes, and lastly, Dhanvantari, the physician—Portugal, under the duque de Bragança (1640-45), and no less than four documented Dom Sebastião’s pretenders, rose

Against Spain, with the Catalans in revolt, the Archbishop of México, Juán de Palafox y Mendoza posits in his letters to Philip II infiltration of Spanish virreinato by the Portuguese crypto-Jews; seated at the rotary reading frame, the facistol, at Puebla’s Biblioteca Palafoxiana (1646)—Thomas More, who approves of the annulment and burning of heretics; the bishop thought his offshoot largely unsuitable for instruction—Stultitiae laus (1511) disabuses clerics as landlords, the first edition belonging to the author himself, contains Holbein’s

Pen and ink marginalia (1515)—Adriaen van Cronenburg; furthermore, is taking the master’s absorption of skulls (1546-1590)—One among the Prado’s three of four three-quarter length ladies host them, in Portrait of a Lady and a Young Girl (1567), nascendo morimur, with a bouquet of pinks—The Zacatecas mine bordering Durango claimed by Francisco de Ibarra (8 July 1563) yields antimony

Oxysulfide, kermesite, likened to the red scale of the Kermes oak, soon replaced by cochineal—A preparation of Hatshepsut’s lip tint and impetus for the expedition to Punt (1470 B.C.E.), for fragrant trees to stake the Terrace of Incense—Anthemonium; the palmette ashes a poor substitute, Basil Valentine (1604) commends charcoal with the native ore gobbed from the crucible, a reddened transparent glass approximating dearer claret colloidal gold, and reported from Asia Minor from reliable deposits on Mytilene and Chios—

From fabulare, fallar, is to speak in Portuguese, and from the cloister at Beja, another sister of Hélène Smith and her guide Leopold decode signespluriels to Venus Mars, Saturn, and the doshas associated with each—The psilocybin pajarito's support of Venusian quetzal featherwork pieced with orchid glue surges with the faintest wind while they luxuriate in the creative ether of Śukra—

Rose of Heaven, Venus and her Doves Amongst The Stars, from The Flower Book (1905) by Edward Burne-Jones leaves a path, of moth entrancing nectaries among the metallic foliage put forward by Tériade’s cover of Matisse’s Lettres portugaises (1946)—Schisandra tart and Śukra’s attachment mounted on a gharial or toothed river dolphin—

From the billet tucked in the ice-hewn oceans of Pluto—Dreams of the transfers of Chios, island of snakes, Ophioussa, and pines, Pityoussa, upcurved in phases is improved by the twenty-four sequence Les Roses (1924)—II. Rose […] Livre-mage, / qui s’ouvre au vent et qui peut être lu / les yeux fermés…, / dont les papillons sortent—

Michocacán opus of papalotzin dictating with their wings, lege, lege, lege of the Mute Book (1667), as antimony fireproofs the once explosive limits of lithium ions for the maps of all time, involving the unfolding of the two, as Holbein’s printer's device of Johann Froben (1523), until the copy converges in longitude—