Wallmoden, however, did not find this departure from home at all easy,
and suffered from the unclear and even unfathomable feelings that this
departure conjured up. Yes, these were the first of many repetitious and
increasing feelings to come—which were as if he had been caught up in the gears
of events by the seam or the hem of his clothing, which continued to pull him
in and would from now on manipulate his movements… —Alexander Lernet-Holenia’s Mars im Widder (15 December 1939-15
February 1940 reissued 1947, 1976-7), Mars
in Aries translated by Robert von Dassanowsky and Elisabeth Littell Frech
for Ariadne Press (2003)
EEG waves of on-off shifts of the extrasensory aptly named for the
retiarii and secutores’s mark of condemnation—Appearing in the gesso on board, as
seen from the collector’s library where he stood in his field uniform dusted in
fallen plaster, in the Bakelite surround of a singed pipe stem, approaching a
desk-strewn letter opener and lamp, wholesale exhaling a sickly phenolic odor
of artificial amber, as John Tunnard
Completes Theta (1939)—The
first daguerreotype (16-17 July 1850) of a star is Vega; confirmed while
calibrating the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite (1985) of the brightest, and
future polestar, in the constellation Lyra,
Cradled in circumstellar clouds in otherwise siliceous debris fields in
the cosmic ocean, of graphite—Likened to a cache of knives excavated under the
Bronze/Iron Age Idalion (1986); the smiths there having employed the same method of hardening an olive stave for putting out the Cyclop’s eye (IX.393-4);
and by taking an electron microscope to its microns, reveal the same
carbon-iron tempered alloy unrecognized until Adolf Martens’s metallography (b.1850), whose martensitic stainless
steel (1890) hastens blast furnace ordinance and cladding for the five field
armies of Operation Fall Weiss (15 June 1939)—Manufacturing at Essen Krupp A.G. is expanded by Hoerbiger’s steel spring compressor valves (1895); endowing
apocalyptic visions of Welteislehre
(1913), which in part projected calamitous expressions of wir stehen vor einem Abgrund—
A razor’s edge of icy planets shepherded by moons keeping the gaseous
band contained and its divisions
Discrete—Followed by surveys of oceans and insulating ice-volcanic melt
taken in their reconsidered vitality after thirteen-years of flybys; Cassini,
whose passages by the Sun bending the radio link now confirm Einstein’s
calculations against then muffled allegations of a Zionist conspiracy at the
Archenhold-Sternwarte (2 June 1915), at last, crosses the ring plane (26 April
2017)—The Reich tinkerer, who contends primacy of northern climates, shapes a
glacial cosmology; chief among which is a theory of sunspots appreciated from
investigations of poured crucibles on snow, which accelerates the retirement-expulsion
of Kasimir Graff from the Vienna Observatory (1938)—The firm lives on in a
sanitized legacy of engineering solutions from one of the 27.000 corporate
registries; more than one for each of its citizens, from the Swiss canton of
Zug, the tax shelter and old growth oak forest of a newly discovered lichen
(2012)—
Perhaps sighted by the botanist Simon Schwendener in the 1860s
vacationing in the western lakes; he who is the first to recognize the
symbiosis of two species—Despite her lost Linnaean Society paper (1897)
elaborating on the confounded structure of alga and fungus, she describes
herself hared by the master conservator at Kew—Miss Potter studies a darting rabbit, and retrieves the
habit of the prey animal’s fecundity, of buck and doe, the grunt and
falling-off resulting in kindling; never again to revisit the subject of a
fungal dictionary (31 January 1897)—Before leaving the Victoria Gate, her hand
for the last time scratches and drops the white pine rust basidiospores
texturing a plucked leaf underside of a trained gooseberry—
Rilke retires briefly to Geneva (1921)—With the mother of Balthus,
Baladine Klossowska (b.1886), who was born the year Rilke matriculates to the
military school of St. Hippolytus; onymous with the saint torn apart by wild
horses, becoming their patron, Sankt Pölten—On which fellow student, Count
Wallmoden, closely reads the third and fourth enjambed lines of suddenly held-out hurdles / of our wishes
(1924)—Mitsou, who is last seen tormenting a nest of whitethroats in the
gooseberry
Canes, has an ending left undedicated to Rilke’s captions of forty panels
in Chinese ink (1921), which the mature artist inserts the thorny bush, then
overtaken by sawflies, in Girl at a Window (1955)—John Tunnard’s
Lack of memory in later years derived perhaps from making altered
schematics of the blanketing fog; admitted by even the early Square, Bird and Stone (1947) on printed
silk, that is, rockbound—When one fast ray traverses one wavelength at the slow
ray’s return, of a misnamed catalog entry at the Tate Gallery (1972), the
canvas Tolpen (1942) that befits the
signal varied equally for the coaster through the reef and encircling gillnet and
double guitar of the Cornish bay, TolPedn (1942)—Shingling overhangs, lichen
Digests mineral substrates with oxalic acid; and it is therefore suitable
for marble polishing—Rivaling all the vibrant pigments of Balthus, whose
artist’s palette is now speaking for the untraceable szlachta exonym of Count
de Rola, whose Tate retrospective telegram is publically, NO BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS. BEGIN: BALTHUS IS A PAINTER OF WHOM NOTHING IS KNOWN. NOW LET US LOOK AT THE PICTURES. REGARDS. B. (1968)—An afterlife branding made-to-order hewn granite
countertop; then there is the Balthus necktie knot, the origin of this cosmic
gray flannel arrives from what Yves Bonnefoy (1957) has to say about Nude in Front of a Mantel (1955), an immensely fruitful defeat—Eurydice,
according to Ovid, walks haltingly from
her wound (X.86), neither impelled nor compelled, but merely unidentified
to the animating Lyra
Of the Summer Triangle; highest in the Northern hemisphere on the ides of
July—der Abgrund
Der menschlichen Seele,
Wallmoden passes on to the inscrutable Cuba von Pistohlkors on the preemptive
military cull of the eldest of the Spanish Riding School, including the
bloodline of the Danish stud Pluto (b. 1765), and his recollection of the
spearhead of mounted ceremonies when he boarded at St. Pölten—Striding two
abreast along the Mariahilfer Strasse after the last showing of the Apollo-Kino,
she digresses on Hölderlin (1797-1800), the supposed voice of the age, who
makes much of Diogenes Laërtius’s account of the Olympian charioteer (496
B.C.E.), who, at no time anticipates his grandson, Empedocles, poised to leap
into the crater of Mongibello–Overhead, the disciplined squadron held their
payloads, then diving with the unified wail of the Stuka Jericho-Trompete
spooking a column of Polish counter cavalry to be fired upon by a solitary
StuKa Ju87—Observing the wrinkles formed in real-time on a thin casing of the
short, compact torpedo upturning a slow funnel of earth, for an ensuing second,
Wallmoden sinks with the sharp bite into his left hand mistaken for shrapnel by
the twisted ventral brackets of a prototype of the Henschel Hs-293
(1939)—Brainchild of Dr. Herbert Alois Wagner; with Wernher von Braun among
others evading the Soviets in Operation Paperclip (May 1945), with cases of
blueprints containing his investigations from 1925 of insect wing strategic
airlift and recovery of bounded vortices—Researches into the plan of a
fire-and-forget munition radioed in by coordinates for smuggling merchant ships,
to which the Allied response is; quite possibly, from Frederick, Maryland, and
Wagner’s provisional department, the Felix the Cat VB-6 (1945)—From this
opening of aeronautical primacy, wreckage rematerializes into a nuclei on a map
Goering remainders to Luftwaffen
Feld-Divisions—
The Party had overtaken University of Vienna medical school graduates—Each
surgeon serving in the Austrian army; and Nobel laureates, Róbert Bárány
(1900, 1914) and Julius Wagner-Jaurreg (1880, 1927) in good company with August
von Hayek (1895), the father of Nobel economist (1974) Friedrich Hayek, who
abandoned the First World War influenza epidemic for taxonomic divisions—
Of Centaurea—The true blue of
alpine thistles; particularly, Centaurea
cyanus, whose flower heads in the hefted flocks seemed to her blue circlets—From
a gas cylinder of radicalized diatomic carbon at the base, where varnish warmed
to be poured on the collodion negatives of
Millais’s working progress by her father jurist and amateur photographer—Rupert
Potter appeared at dinner with B. and Bertie trailed by the faint traces of
cyanogen soap, to remove lunar caustic, on his cuffs—There too, a flame of a
baffled burner universalized by Robert Bunsen (1854), whose student is the most
distinguished Potter relation, by the element found to contain the most stable
vanadyl ion—Vanadium chemist Henry Enfield Roscoe, who later receives a
knighthood (1884) for spectral analysis, with the isolation of the metal in
Roscoelite, an ore tinted gooseberry
Of the missing left iris of the Amarna bust in the Neues Museum displayed
in 1923, and like Else Lasker-Schüler, born in Thebes—Gottfried Benn makes out
the reproach of ex-lover, Tell me – what am I that all these / Flowers blossom in my body and soul?
(1923)—Mechanical impulse to electrical oscillation of the cut quartz crystal
of a static wireless and indication of a vanishing point into an allegory of
John Tunnard’s
Weather, where the picture Phantom (1959)
leans five degrees from the ecliptic, the Moon turns its full aspect to the
Sun, fleetingly eclipsing it—Grey planes of a surface bristle and acuminate in
postwar raw concrete—From Le poème de
l'angle droit (1955), cover that retains the breath of fiery serpents, A.4 Entre bosses et dans fissures / glissant sur
les durs et s'enfonçant […] of formerly, oakmoss lichen—
Such later summer hoarfrost illuminated by their torchlights; overground
and against his panic from crayfish migrating in a cordon among leaden furrowed
trunks the shades of the liveries of officers, as morgue poet before achieves
[…] for the eye / enough celestial participation (1912)—Wallmoden, himself, marked by a dueling scar beneath
his left eye, and in this season of stag's rut, whittles the air for his lost
meeting and François Coty’s source of Le Chypre
(1917), the nose’s once left eye wiped by a retinal thrombosis, concentrating
from an aventurescent perfume emanating from certain hours in the
woods—Gottfried Benn as an intern reads Ewald Hering’s Zur Lehre vom Lichtsinne (Vienna, 1878), offering how an afterimage
encodes the three primaries, whereby the photoreceptors become fatigued by
their opponents into negligence; subsuming otherwise in his hands, a pathology
from the overlying temporal lobe compressing a tract of the optic chiasm, with
the resulting monocular defect, the two hemispheres fused by the lyra Davidis—
Ten-strings of the psalterium abridged in the Egyptian lyre—First
sightings followed the horns of the Apis bull, a winged gateway or sundisk, by
then, the cattle yoke and tortoiseshell body shoulder steadied and consigned by
Hermes’s combining intellect the radiating ribs of the carapace—Lyra’s
Sulafat, Gamma Lyrae, brought into line with the eclipsing binary, Beta
Lyrae, signposts Viennese-trained Jenő Gothard’s photographic plate of the Ring
Nebula (M57) (1 September 1886)—From the first holding of the Berlin Museum
(1903), and the XVIII dynasty of Amarna and the coregency of
Nefertiti-Neferneferuaten, whose unfinished aspect is incidentally upturned by
the wife of the photographer of the Pendlebury’s expedition (January 1933),
Hilary Waddington—At the same time uncovering the window in the gate of the
Pathexgraph as Arthur Evans raises the hornless black talc-schist, red jasper,
inlaid shell bull’s head rhyton, its left side the unrestored original, in Hall
IV of the Dolphin fresco at Knossos—Divisions
Of schist and sluices of Genesis, according to the tenets of Neptunism,
and the facsimile of Bertuch’s entry of Das Boramez, oder Scythische Lamm (1806), at the nadir of which Stanisław Lem
projects a thick layer of colloidal snow, before infilling the mimoid, and the
speaker remains mummiform within Die Mergelgrube, The Marl-pit, from a collection by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
(1844)—Left by the German speaking governess, Annie Blanche Carter, for the
contented house-holding bordering the house of correction and gas and coke
plant at Wendelesorde; later known by the Wandsworth shield accession at the
British Museum (1858) they come into after dropping off the proofs at 46 Great
Russell Street—Lichen;
alleged to leaven the loaves of the Egyptians, staid in the insolubility
of granite markers, already wreathed the base of the Warne monument she had
seen walking in Highgate after unremitting rain, a gold flecked woodwax, Hygrophorus chrysodon, out from the dead
leaves—Bunches of curled grape, agrest,
the wild gooseberry
Preserve the glazing of the elders of Lwów; apportioned to the Empire
(1772), and celebrating its lecturer
Sacher-Masoch (b.1836), and lesser known physician in the Austro-Hungarian
army, the laryngologist, Samuel Lemm (b.1879)—Zbigniew Herbert at the
Ossolineum pauses over the pages of the vegetable lamb, while reading for
Wallmoden Cuba pulls the trump, Księżniczka Kielicha, Princess of Cups—The
golden fleece; she accedes, not knowing it concerns withdrawal of the Romanian
Bridgehead to Lwów, is sea silk whose lemon gilded byssal threads anchor their
wings in a star array on the non-ground, Abgrund
Of sea grass—Among the fingerlings caught in low tides, boomeranged by
the frames of bones and attached flesh of Grey
Mullet (1953)—When the film source material, The Sea Around Us (1953) shoals submarines around the faces of
Amphitrite in John Tunnard’s
Dialogue of Two Heads (1955)—Adam Zagajewski is born on the June solstice
in Lwów (1945), Lvov, around whose Rynok square figures of Neptune, Diana,
Amphitrite and Adonis is splayed suitcases, one of which is Cuba’s—Surviving
Delphinus below the Summer Triangle and a bubble in the 3 Kelvin microwave
background rippled by plutonium’s novel implosion (16 July 1945) by an unseen
kitharode collapsed into a sand dollar dove of John Tunnard’s
Ascension (1945)—By a battery of ocean water, the dielectric by
Lichtenberg (1800-6), whose compass of motives issued in 32 winds from Freud to
Einstein (1932) in a vessel loaned by the auxiliary coastguard vessel bottom
lined in acrylic polymer slab to total darkness—The tsarist Pulkovo Observatory
(1839), its dome and meridian crumbling, is resurrected in 1946 if not by
astrometry, and the then unsolved Blazhko effect (1907) through the pulsating
luminosity and rung in the cosmic distance ladder of RR Lyrae—
From the concussion and resulting radiculopathy in the left hand,
Wallmoden’s sleeping crab claw reaching for the second piece of explosive
bitten into the Ab-grund (1936-8)
Swaying not giving way parting the estate’s erupting bookcase of the
Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499 and Zibaldone quaresimale da Rucellai
(d.1481); the latter’s vellum pages pleated to Boethius Adeo nihil est miserum, nisi cum putes (II.4.18)—Invoking the
descendants (1250), the utter sententiousness of Fortune that compels Giovanni
Rucellai’s sailcloth and sumptuary business in purple dyestuff—An unconscious
congregation of forms replete with industrialist Vienna’s Paul Friedländer
(1895) synthesizing thioindigo of the Carpathian carpet, isolated 6,6'-dibromoindigo
experienced again in Tyrian purple, the footprints still visible in the settled
plasterwork—Prolonged with the shadow path on a Mediterranean escarpment where
grey oricello color shell sails and
the magnification of aceto-orcein of elastic tissue, of karyokinetic divisions,
Acid-base indicator litmus (1812)—Finding her in the Lviv oblast of 1945,
much longer and off-course from the uncorrupted reciting Constantine Cavafis’s Before the Statue of Endymion (1895),[...] on a white chariot drawn by four snow-white mules—Rain scald on the solitary Mutevolezza until this head injury
manifests, where the foreign exchange student insists on changing conveyances
en route to the American Consulate in Cracow—Marked with death’s head for
desertion, and dried blood mistaken for the tincture of orchil lichens
The student, mule and cart blown away in
a barrage of splinters out of the sylvan muzzle brake of a Sturmgeschütz;
somewhere, along the Baltic Amber Road whose holdings were uncovered by
Schliemann at Mycenae (1877)—Disintegration loops of mourning those years
separately; and martial, in unison, for un
trou de mémoire, un trou de loup
from the Gallic wars pointed for meaning behind the Aldine crest of a trident
and dolphin, in which case Cuba asks if he would like be shown, grappling him
with her long legs—From delphys as from Delphi, a retaken discussion of Earth
of water, letter tzaddi, the fish hook and secret of the Law, which pulls the
fish out of water on the fifth day, resumed by Derrida, a heritage which is more or less coherent or ruined, it must be said that every discourse is bricoleur (1978b: 285)—Taking in the exhibition of
Adriaen Coorte’s hundredfold output between 1683 and 1707 at the National
Gallery of Art (2003), which includes the currant gooseberry—
Within the nightfall of an auditorium, he calls to mind Martha Bernays's letter posted from Wandsbek (28 May 1886) on the episode from Novalis’s
“Hyacinth and Roseblossom” (1802) in which its lead at last lifts the veil of
Isis abstracted from the flora, among them, the gooseberry—
Papered until admission within this distant text of neurology, Paul Klee
illustrated best (1949)—Determined in stretch induced affinity of myofilament
excitation to coupling, and shown from Baltimore test site, the rate of heart’s
elastic competence firing under spontaneous calcium sparks (Cheng, Lederer, & Cannell, 1993)—John Tunnard’s
Diagram of the Sea Bed (1947) transfers
these lattices of Klee’s—By an untied sea belt, Laminaria saccharina that is
the source of calcium alginate and natural hemostat, wound out of which the
claw of Cancer the Crab may be found between of the two brightest stars of
Castor and Pollux and Leo's Regulus among submerged lunar period and urchin Sun
on the Tenby beach, where Beatrice eyes the driftwood script lichen,
As it may or may not have come into the nomenclature, Xylographa opegraphella—Novalis, who studied
Sanskrit during the arrangement of The
Novices of Saïs (1802), understood that it speaks in order to speak—From
Capricorn in Abhijit (अभिजीत), the
hidden, victorious one Krishna uninvolved for one day in a 27-day sidereal
lunar month, and has fallen into the tranquil rhomboid of Lyra—
Citing the Mahabharta’s acts of adharma as they were performed in einen
Abgrund
Blickst (Beyond Good and Evil, IV.146;
1886); reprised in the Sils-Maria Dionysian-Dithyrambs
(1888), Nietzsche, whose sensibility was likened to Arion and dolphin founder (I.24) of the Greek colony of the Appian way, Tarentum, Colonia Neptunia; and who is thought
to be reconstituting the divisions
Of fascists, granting that Zarathustra is A Book for All and None (1883-1891)—Wallmoden, in his quarry among the scattered salt of Isis tears by turns the divisions mentally completed of a gooseberry net and caught fast in the June flame trees—With Cuba Pistohlkors as the volatile sovereign, combined in the rain of John Tunnard’s overlay of radio static, after Paul Celan, Heidegger’s most untiring student; and together, reckoning Eingeschossen / in die Smaragdbahn—Inserted into / the emerald-trajectory, […] At lichen growth and Chiron’s colure through the descendants, their mile high ice layers fleetingly obscured before the lyric, the Unground / Ungrund (1976)—
