Venice

Jacklyn 2022-10-31 10:44:51




No, I don’t pick strawberries for you, I
won’t weave sharp glass into your hair,
I don’t polish a conch mirror for you,

when I sit on a gondola, I see
that the features of the cloud are
about to be pierced by the sunlight. The

water is fatal. gray-green
new porcelain blue smoke burning of
my eyes lapel flowers are pale orange

this morning fell to the man station
ears drilled in a diamond-shaped beetle

listen, I do not take you to the lighthouse
will not Planting grass seeds in your head
will not write you a uniform

city, biting one’s forefoot
in vain, telling me that

the people on the golden shore are dying in an orderly manner and entering a long lunar eclipse
with symmetrical karma That desperate old man has darkened his sideburns. He even painted a little rouge. No, I won’t cross this bridge, I won’t touch the corners of your mouth when I wake up, I won’t talk about Venice with you 2009-5-9













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  • Gustav von Aschenbach: I remember we had one of these in my father's house. The aperture through which the sand runs is so tiny that... that first it seems as if the level in the upper glass never changes. To our eyes it appears that the sand runs out only... only at the end... and until it does, it's not worth thinking about... 'til the last moment... when there's no more time left to think about it.

  • Gustav von Aschenbach: You know sometimes I think that artists are rather like hunters aiming in the dark. They don't know what their target is, and they don't know if they've hit it. But you can't expect life to illuminate the target and steady your aim. The creation of beauty and purity is a spiritual act.

    Alfred: No Gustav, no. Beauty belongs to the senses. Only to the senses.