Replenished canteens of those who would immure her (1558); their lime
Mortar amended slips gathered for angel’s water—Three gibbets adjusted
Calvary there—Autoglyphs of Jesuit New World Assumption schools whose infinite
Regress, chosen by de Gaulle (1942), is the two-barred cross in brickwork—
For all genocides uttered by a dice roll; she is uncalled, and declares herself, Esther—
Pronounced from a night window, starred Adiyaman; Hamedan—The latter, Esther’s
Concealment by the adopted delivered on dreams of cataracts—Fortress Mont-Valérien’s
21st of February listings, of birth dates, the current century’s bonded brickwork—
Eleven years, Aragon’s red poster (1955) is already fossilized buffer, burnt chalk lines; withered lime
Glazed vehicles for the ceremony’s bloodstain; orbits for which our terrestrial year is no adequate measure adjusted
For the sine of latitude, a wire’s reinstating force—There, a pendulum fixed to distant masses of this infinite
Universe—The Panthéon’s custody of what’s left of two Manouchians, the displaced and outlawed for infinite
Remembrance in lyrics; Auden’s strophic yesterdays and to-morrows of Spain (1937)—Esther’s
Appointment is bittersweet; the suppliant exhibited—Another age’s civic involvement adjusts
Dregs of Vichy regime Communists, and those remaindered by Vel d’Hiv (1942) to haunt the streets, then Mont-Valérien—
There were twenty-three of them when the guns flowered, as on lapels, on low-profile brickwork
Signs before which policemen ask the passengers to uncover their hair—Slaked lime
Of scrupled squadrons; a Manouchian woman conveyed on her birthday (10 May 1944) to a lime
Washed cell in Stuttgart for beheading—When a leading left foot lifts off the curbstone into the infinite
Red Sea shelf breaking a ground of photo medallions (1943)—Fixed blades of surgeonfish, of budding brickwork,
Queneau’s entropic Les Ziaux (1943), occupied with Élie Lascaux’s Limousin fern allies—Esther’s
Tribe of leftist swordsmen and archers wrong-footing opponents; she is inscrolled with mineral salts adjusted
To captivity, the banquet’s redoubt—Resistant lives, a hair’s breadth in a chapel at Mont Valérien—
Their legends cycled off after a tombola of Auden’s birth, 21 February, where Mont-Valérien’s
To my understanding, is a Queneau base sonnet for infinite combinations—Esther unhinged her voice
After the price, adjusted for inflation, had been paid, as for Mont-Valérien, Pyongyang’s assumption of emigrants—
2 comments:
When I read about Elizabeth Taylor, I had my doubts about a Virago Press writer with Labour affiliation; not because I am an absolutist, but one finds idiotic compassion often where it is most unneeded.
I really like this novella, and it entered my evening when the darkness of being alone seemed unmollified despite going to dinner and the gym, and then confronting an unending list of things to do before I go back to work. To be an unattached, aging woman is sometimes frightening, like the protagonist. I think the premise would start as a musing Mrs Palfrey, extending the sham of Ludovic as her grandson who works at the British Museum, as making good on it with a weekly invitation and then dinner at the Claremont.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mrs_Palfrey_at_the_Claremont/FiFOEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Mrs%20Palfrey%20at%20the%20Claremont%20thank%20you%20for%20your%20kindness%22&pg=PA41&printsec=frontcover
It made me think of this 1986 album, and my favorite lines of the Momus/Brel conjuration is "And in the underground we're drowning / Accelerating through the years [...]"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5JPUf88s-0
I have a sandy-colored cat, who was starving and miniaturized forever from early life, and she has a dark outline to her askance eyes, Sindy. Like the alternative to Barbie. She is much better, now.
At the time of the publication of the novel, Sindy 1971-2:
https://www.oursindymuseum.com/1971-2/
Blonde Redhead's The Shadow of the Guest (2025) reminds me of that cynicism and momentary of hope of someone long-awaited entering through the door.
https://www.hotpress.com/music/blonde-redhead-announce-new-album-the-shadow-of-the-guest-23085451
For a future Card, Nun (50). Avoir le coeur sur la main
Or is it Nun (50). L'ombre de l'invité ?
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