Anne-Marie Albiach
from "L'État"
translated by Keith Waldrop

 
MANIFESTO
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

French text


                    violence
are sketched the drama
the aesthetic hardens
and strength of gesture

 


the eye conceives a deadly ethics

 


obtuse in blood
said to be spilled
metaphor

 

 

 


a deliberation

 


of norms
                    of forms
the enigma
so my view overgrows

 


it has no place in this parallel
but disclaims it
adjacent stilled.
In the military
mode of its evolution


I am invisible
from lack of self–
(converse)
just beginning
he says
they disappear