| Antonio Rossi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FROM DIAPHONIES | FROM SEXTERN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Translations by Stephen Sartarelli and Thomas Epstein. | Translations by Howard Rodger MacLean in collaboration with the author. | Translations by Howard Rodger MacLean in collaboration with the author. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A carpet collects conjectures, denials, worries recalled, it’s the final grasp before the dive into the dark of space, the daylight of the breathing hollow; and again just soot and a vice or something else that grips armpits, throat and cheeks no longer like the color of minium. |
From what basement, case or package spring or fall clippings we notice by number, uneven size and easy mobility, or else a lamination, a polished, leafy surface, pointed pupils, a separate contour, a wrapping, a nodular segment. |
If scratches and swelling occur upon contact with points, and vapors hurt wrists or carve cruciform effigies of which shall be said they shall be eclipsed, and twistings reveal membranes marked by slight protuberances, a sheet of brass reflects in one side, impure by folds and scribbles. |
A mouth utters a name, repeats it, awaits the next day the better to modulate it, almost spells it out by surprise from towers and basements, articulates it with secret inflection until outside a day arrives that is not really a voice but its surrogate and astonishment, impulses, clothes thrown away and much is imperceptible and fades, falls silent. |
Independently we break free: in well-organized compartments intensely or languidly observed and by a surmise that falls away from frequent corners toward the destructive whole abandonment and the unbridled dismay that one or two hours later makes us jump to entreat suddenly quenching and ready and creates beliefs and suspicions that analysis and reports may barely succeed in putting to rout. |
If a cleptomaniac throws herself from the rocks in her sleep she is stopped by the industrial scraps and ropes below; and animals and passersby are overcome with wonder as gestures float by one by one between phony watchtowers. Likewise if the other eye’s vision is already nul if the other ear’s hearing is already nul block-units or single inferences and frenzies are endlessly stirred up, broken down and strewn over dirt piles purposely tampered with, to which access is taken for granted. Intemperance shall be the top priority. |
Although in a solid setting; an ersatz dressing-room; among derelict boxes destroyed for this reason; desired frequencies it seems to elude or entangle; a smooth enquiry only the second time around; a delay; an additional dose of unrest. |
Perhaps to broad fluctuations of perimeters crowded by a maned lynx, a multiple instigating-appearing-excluding, frolicking birds of prey and crossroads, supports and frail adherences, or to perceptible vaporizations might we ascribe this persuasive stubborn mess. |
Sprayed or polished metals and abundant spatulas and unadaptable wedges and emphatically knotted cables or a set of capsules, one emerald- green, one turquoise, one scarlet and a block of houses with no more cries and a list with no more names today may mingle or take flight. |
Blind and voracious the backdrop but opportune an irruption even if incautious for which it’s possible to take fright, be rigid, beware of treacherous rains or other intrigue, hesitate or advance among warehouses until a fearful imminent nebulization. |
Usually or heatedly a parameter or viscous cabin includes or removes reluctant subjects and conceals copious scratches and additives and after tractions or dangers excludes in courses dislocated and menaced by particles. |
Only if the afternoon is slippery can one again pass through the same turnstiles and this time note a balsa dragonfly, rump cut or loin on hooks or sense perfumes not easily decipherable or affirmations such as I live time unlimited in a din of concrete mixers. |
In the same brambles or guardians surprised at rest a craving induces courses no less mad and a bit of shadow is a hook robust and ready to press unrestrained and every throat or exhibited bruise is reversed by tracks and chains in the very convulsive threat. |
The pink brings cloves and gorges ready to impede or overpower before an obscure need defers every impetus given that now cautious predators rage and in crooked buildings a crash hides torsions and anomalies or with coaxing falls headlong and hits retinae as if distracted. |
Knots and nooses that always fray after the dogged use and mixtures as if exploded don’t wander in passages or wardrobe until for hidden reason let loose they are on the insulation a deranged complex surmountable with shake between the bars twined or opened wide. |
Emptied every habitation of goods and characters and abolished pilasters and renderings and deactivated whatever connected incursion what leaks out and holds is not the sight of abnormal lilies nor the ominous hitting of an unwelcome guest not the exclusive permanent invitation. |
Some porphyry is a table on which a charcoal extracted from stable hole leaves traces of scorn: each one disseminates little palms in the shady valley where a home with evident surprise is almost laid. |
Seventh natural ligatures matter less than obliged steps towards pages opened with caution performed abandoned in a circling close to confusion to the anxious drop in pitch on register accelerate give full air wide open deserving from this clumsy decree. |
Gauges stares licks swerves distances yields interposes sneaks distorts avoids omits misleads hides purloins refuses exclaims dissipates encodes figure unshapes. |
A mind to turn itself where? Towards striae secure shadows blocks or down rebounding from ferns on the discontinuous periphery and nomadic to greenhouses pavilions fetid heaps from which sparrow linnet magpie draws happiness. |
No longer on the tower does dust settle: a molest sweeps away punishes door-handles a crag that florid appeared boats’ hulls harriers in garrigue: perimeters of intangible substance are converted and if unsteadiness is produced or kind of intent for its passage goes and dyke is made hoax. |
Summit uprooted gives weak dark fumes unpleasant if gall cerris sumac in cap or diffuser slackens swarms loses force and take courses followed by all eyes because a form brings illusions or dissuasions above all if from the dew point discompensating flies over the air. |
A fruit from a plate taken and in another deposited so that a more avid maw longer can relish taste causes surprise dissent protest when not dejection and the black traveller’s sack what doesn’t it house in its trusted pouches. |
Blue thread clasps an ash cord saves a beginner piece of nylon bumping against takes the form of a treble clef and twisted implements lie dormant stuck enmeshed in painted grids that slender mouth ignores or tries out and handle forceps leather piece sodden burst out making rapid blending. |
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