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THREE POEMS OF MINE HAD BEEN TRANSLATED INTO HUNGARIAN, A LANGUAGE OF WHICH WE KNOW NOTHING: WE TRANSLATED THEM BACK ONE MORNING. THREE OF EACH, EACH, WITH A BREAK BETWEEN EACH SET OF THREE: AND NO PEEKING: LINE BY LINE. MAY 9th. 1973. IT LOOKS A LOT LIKE EUROPE. TR.

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO RAY DIPALMA AND BETSI BRANDFASS.

THANKS TO JOE BRAINARD, ANDREI CODRESCU, BILL COX, AND TOM VEITCH WHO PUNCTUATED THE MORNING. TR/VR

1.

WANDERGUT

†

slovak intellectual appears to cyclops

resembling your face

hiding ecstasy in cement works of webern

cutlass banana-scar on amber mind-nuts

†

oval, a robot tu-tu

lovingly spins metalically among the tortoises

with seventeen sporadic rotors

similarly steaming egyptian musaz

†

pieter kelnek who in moderation

seemed the energy of spinning sarcasm

semi-exerted

takes from it a slovak intellectual

2.

SALLY TO SEE YOU, TACITUS

†

amok among sicilians

seeking far with my good eye

can alcohol

so maintain europe

that the gone rue it so?

†

is it a first-greeting fist then

that sparks on nearing

a merry parent?

is this the foolish cyclamate

ten gallons of which flatten your hair?

†

exercise that lengthens dogs

mars their true coats

"holy mitred vale

of tulsa pray for us"

yes lola.... no giorgio.... hi joe

3.

AT MAXIMUM ZERO

†

seeking the still window

in stasis

a variant arrival

chortles into a hold-all

golden arrival-window!

†

lo! nears the orgone-bug

--mincy ugly tunneler--

each distant foot feels all

eggy†††agony in a homosexual's apartment

eggy future in a blimp sack

†

"ballast" (ricardo montalban)

a fat lip

leapfrogging

hold!†††ho!††††lobster's

name instructs the eggy cherub

4.

A COLT HAS ATE MOST

†

how easy to hold fast at

missolonghi††††††to hold the

visitor at varese

to hold vague jokes

golden honey with fennel

†

the nearing organ book

with huge volume

with leg-rings feels all

edgy††††who mocks that apparent old-age

that edgy suspended future?

†

"ballast" from a vibration

a first fast kiss

happily held

hold!††††ho!††††far-off

name is educated syllabub

5.

STARLIGHT UTILITIES

†

atomic minds caliban

far fiji with ebsen

canals and chocolate

romany yaks

o the guru halo!

†

tick tock (some hungarian)

it's most energetic gazing

a fey league

this is the sick eskimo

you give me a fiery hand at last

†

sadness dolor

i am immersed in tricks

hold val

ultimately licking

day††††night††††tomorrow

6.

START AND SIT

†

scylla running amok

past fiji

carnal charcoal

romantic romany

holy gorgio

†

tick tock††††a felt fist

its most gossamer journey

cloth legs

sweet silk eyes

tender feeble velvet hands

†

dogs at zero

immersed in tracks

mighty voles

using milk

daily in yesterday's gorges

7.

A COLT IS MOST

†

ho!†††he's holding it at

waving and holding

with water and whiskey

holding guns

hungarian guns

†

look at the big night organ

eating the ugly violinist

a musical festival

streaky men, gold hair

dark streets†††††gondolas

†

ballast from a blaze

a fiery volcano

horses

hold him long

my name is lettie eggsyrub

8.

UTILITY STARLIGHT

†

killing us atomic minds

far fiji

canals and calibres

alchemy

o giant halos

†

this is the first fault

it is the most i gaze on

a pharaoh's league

icy††††killing††††silent

giving a feather with latitude

†

dogs tigers

immersed in tricks

holes††††valleys††††mists

utopian lakes

days††††nights††††afternoons

9.

CELTIC MISTS

†

hold silk hold faille

muslin and hemp

vichy water and champagne

holding vanilla

hungry faces

†

icons and bugles

mints on the volga

a laughing festival

aubergines patting andirons

casks of future glows

†

blitz velasquez

a first king

hopeless

hopeful †† lingering

no lethe

10.

WHAT DO YOU SAY?

†

low level plain and copses

a certain fierce time

hiding jokes in mud bricks

fierce coals and midnight embers

†

jerking a rabbit upwards

loving laughter and misty turtles

it is 1770 in reykyavik

singing††††scheming††††masking††††killing

†

killing people with moderation

killing†††††never sinking a rock

seeing foam

taking a lovely levee

11.

A MOST COLD

†

they hold izaak at fire

moulding the tundra

clear water and ice

a bold magyar

gorging

†

no merit gets oregon

mincing††††ugly††††vulgar

at leghorn fairs

each man takes with iron

izaak takes iron

†

iron blasts from calderon

a fiery kiss

hope

hold††††o††††languor

its name is lethe

12.

SOLITARY UTAHSITIS

†

atomically minded armchair prevention

from dawn till dusk

coal by canal and car

so maintain your castle

o, from gongora hasten!

†

seacrack in falsetto whispers

is most eye-less once-yearly

to bird leg

is so silly and sick

to tender a feather amulet

†

dry self sad log

as to true immersed sea-bed

--whole valium aorta

utilised chest attack --

peer: or go hasten

13.

WHO DUN IT

†

level legs parachutes and co-ops

a sunbeam and a rainbow

hiding bodies in a cement bridge

the hotel vega burns at midnight

†

over a rabbit-stew

chocolate milk and a mezzanine tortoise

with a swede and a swiss from reykyavik

and a swede and a swiss from egypt

†

found a modulating key

taking energy from a rock

going to samarkand

turks love it

14.

WHAT NOUGAT

†

lovely far-televisioned paris by cycle

smack kisses your eye windows

hiding ecstasy in cement shell "toves"

cutlet-gook and vegetables at embered midnight

†

omelet of rabbit, turtle

lovingly rotored and mixed with tletur

my senses thunder-snap and wander

simultaneously simulating masticating egg-yolk

†

pieter kelnek born in modulatia

sense energy sarcastically roaming

see me eat "zers"

you crazy but lovable distant set

15.

SHALL THE CUP YOU SIT AT

†

syllable's are mind's atoms

from first to last

through cancer-canal

romantic jokes

"o........ †de golden halo!"

†

seek rat -- that musty head

is most ignobly elegant

for halo's light

is eskimo

or arabic

†

sad egg-stained dog

has smeared his basket

-- whole valuable fragments

used to lap milk

give him his new york halo

16.

WHAT YOU GOT

†

the far-off cattle seem to clop

a steamboat to distend it

while day exacts a solid fee

the burning cattle mind it

†

but lo! a rabbit-cat appears

gambolling endearingly round and round

the seventeen zippers of its pelt

snag simultaneously on the ground

†

pets that have not learned moderation

whose energy forces them to roam

may end as half-chewed entrecotes

beneath sweet turkish loam

17.

TAKE A DOG

†

cool perfect loving hell

remembering fizzing tunes

hiding jokes finding flakes

coasting††††embarking at midnight

†

ovals in rabid turmoil

loving geometrics and tertian symbols

a thousand thousand royals

singing singing music elegies

†

please keep in a gavotte

many rock sarabands

see me see me

turning a lovely anthem

18.

HOW COLD IS MOST

†

how easy to hold fania's hat

a muscled yogi will hold it

this visitor to our ranks

will hold it vaguely

go hunting with fania

†

loan your writ or go in a bug

mind the ugly will

allegro!††††feldspar!

behold the clear painful beauty of your tie

behold saki futilely inflate you

†

"by allah!" -- from a valise

a quick fist

an opal yak

old†††††o....†bangkok

fate is far from syrup's ego