Horse, Pipe and Red Flower
Under the reign of logic: a goblet, a red flower
with boundaries, assigned
beneath a mirror: imagination
on the verge of recovering
a book: open to a drawing
and the sum of dreamt moments
a long white stem: in the illusion of continuity
like the night, a blue floor, in parenthesis
red and yellow fringes
sleeping logicians, philosophers
and saw-blades of color: the weight of self-assurance
curved and flowered, as a detachment
an empty white bowl: I return to the waking state
but what does the manuscript say?
a phenomenon on a horse
in regal pose, a strange tendency
toward dissolution
on the fluid curve: slipping off the tongue
these lapses
begin like a piano: arisen
from the deep night
a goblet in a seashell
in a bowl: this idea of aging, patterned
like a fragrance, toward the sky
this glorious acceleration: of circles
more obscure in divinity, broken
into shards of geometry: all aberration
from a prism, what the mind loves
within, a woman's eye: a rich flow
of intelligence, a wood grain
Kill, plunder more quickly, love: the ambience
without a name
but freshly painted
methodical examination: a mirror
lapsed into measurable generations
a salient fact: undefinable, pear-shaped
in the curve of a dream, childlike
everything marvelous: a man cut in half
by the window, an encumbrance
or reticence: the page turning over
on a horse's knee, raised
to be strange: you who have written
this pipe on its side, a number
of premises and facts: nothing to smoke
the charm, explication gone awry
before we stumble: zebra stripes
dictated by an absence
peeled from a cluttered table: the disinterested
curve, a play of thought
the surface dissolution: Joan Miró
Horse, Pipe and Red Flower
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