Songs to Joannes + 

I + 

Spawn + 

of + 

Fantasies + 

Silting the appraisable + 

Pig Cupid + 

his rosy snout + 

Rooting erotic garbage + 

вАЬOnce upon a timeвАЭ + 

Pulls a weed + 

white star-topped + 

Among wild oats + 

sown in mucous-membrane + 

I would + 

an + 

eye in a Bengal light + 

Eternity in a sky-rocket + 

Constellations in an ocean + 

Whose rivers run no fresher + 

Than a trickle of saliva + 

These + 

are suspect places + 

I must live in my lantern + 

Trimming subliminal flicker + 

Virginal + 

to the bellows + 

Of Experience + 

Coloured + 

glass + 

II + 

The skin-sack + 

In which a wanton duality + 

Packed + 

All the completion of my infructuous impulses + 

Something the shape of a man + 

To the casual vulgarity of the merely observant + 

More of a clock-work mechanism + 

Running down against time + 

To which I am not paced + 

My finger-tips are numb from fretting your hair + 

A GodвАЩs door-mat + 

On the threshold of your mind + 

III + 

We might have coupled + 

In the bed-ridden monopoly of a moment + 

Or broken flesh with one another + 

At the profane communion table + 

Where wine is spillвАЩd on promiscuous lips + 

We might have given birth to a butterfly + 

With the daily news + 

Printed in blood on its wings + 

IV + 

Once in a mezzanino + 

The starry ceiling + 

Vaulted an unimaginable family + 

Bird-like abortions + 

With human throats + 

And WisdomвАЩs eyes + 

Who wore lamp-shade red dresses + 

And woolen hair + 

One bore a baby + 

In a padded porte-enfant + 

Tied with a sarsenet ribbon + 

To her gooseвАЩs wings + 

But for the abominable shadows + 

I would have lived + 

Among their fearful furniture + 

To teach them to tell me their secrets + 

Before I guessed + 

вАФSweeping the brood clean out + 

V + 

Midnight empties the street + 

Of all but us + 

Three + 

I am undecided which way back + 

To the left a boy + 

вАФOne wing has been washed in rain + 

The other will never be clean any moreвБ†вАФ + 

Pulling door-bells to remind + 

Those that are snug + 

To the right a haloed ascetic + 

Threading houses + 

Probes wounds for souls + 

вАФThe poor canвАЩt wash in hot waterвБ†вАФ + 

And I donвАЩt know which turning to take + 

Since you got home to yourselfвБ†вАФfirst + 

VI + 

I know the Wire-Puller intimately + 

And if it were not for the people + 

On whom you keep one eye + 

You could look straight at me + 

And Time would be set back + 

VII + 

My pair of feet + 

Smack the flag-stones + 

That are something left over from your walking + 

The wind stuffs the scum of the white street + 

Into my lungs and my nostrils + 

Exhilarated birds + 

Prolonging flight into the night + 

Never reachingвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ + 

VIII + 

I am the jealous store-house of the candle-ends + 

That lit your adolescent learning + 

вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ + 

Behind GodвАЩs eyes + 

There might + 

Be other lights + 

IX + 

When we lifted + 

Our eye-lids on Love + 

A cosmos + 

Of coloured voices + 

And laughing honey + 

And spermatozoa + 

At the core of Nothing + 

In the milk of the Moon + 

X + 

Shuttle-cock and battle-door + 

A little pink-love + 

And feathers are strewn + 

XI + 

Dear one + 

at your mercy + 

Our Universe + 

Is only + 

A colorless onion + 

You derobe + 

Sheath by sheath + 

Remaining + 

A disheartening odour + 

About your nervy hands + 

XII + 

Voices break on the confines of passion + 

Desire + 

Suspicion + 

Man + 

Woman + 

Solve in the humid carnage + 

Flesh from flesh + 

Draws the inseparable delight + 

Kissing at gasps + 

to catch it + 

Is it true + 

That I have set you apart + 

Inviolate in an utter crystallization + 

Of all + 

the jolting of the crowd + 

Taught me willingly to live to share + 

Or are you + 

Only the other half + 

Of an egoвАЩs necessity + 

Scourging pride with compassion + 

To the shallow sound of dissonance + 

And boom of escaping breath + 

XIII + 

Come to me + 

There is something + 

I have got to tell you + 

and I canвАЩt tell + 

Something taking shape + 

Something that has a new name + 

A new dimension + 

A new use + 

A new illusion + 

It is ambient + 

And it is in your eyes + 

Something shiny + 

Something only for you + 

Something that I must not see + 

It is in my ears + 

Something very resonant + 

Something that you must not hear + 

Something only for me + 

Let us be very jealous + 

Very suspicious + 

Very conservative + 

Very cruel + 

Or we might make an end of the jostling of aspirations + 

Disorb inviolate egos + 

Where two or three are welded together + 

They shall become god + 

вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ + 

Oh thatвАЩs right + 

Keep away from me + 

Please give me a push + 

DonвАЩt let me understand you + 

DonвАЩt realise me + 

Or we might tumble together + 

Depersonalized + 

Identical + 

Into the terrific Nirvana + 

Me youвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКyouвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКme + 

XIV + 

Today + 

Everlasting + 

passing + 

apparent + 

imperceptible + 

To you + 

I bring the nascent virginity of + 

вАФMyself + 

for the moment + 

No love + 

or the other thing + 

Only the impact of lighted bodies + 

Knocking sparks off each other + 

In chaos + 

XV + 

Seldom + 

Trying for Love + 

Fantasy dealt them out as gods + 

Two or three men + 

looked only human + 

But you alone + 

Superhuman + 

apparently + 

I had to be caught in the weak eddy + 

Of your drivelling humanity + 

To love you most + 

XVI + 

We might have lived together + 

In the lights of the Arno + 

Or gone apple stealing under the sea + 

Or played + 

Hide and seek in love and cob-webs + 

And a lullaby on a tin-pan + 

And + 

talked till there were no more tongues + 

To talk with + 

And never have known any better + 

XVII + 

I donвАЩt care + 

Where the legs of the legs of the furniture are walking to + 

Or what is hidden in the shadows they stride + 

Or what would look at me + 

If the shutters were not shut + 

Red + 

a warm colour on the battle-field + 

Heavy on my knees as a counterpane + 

Count counter + 

I counted + 

the fringe of the towel + 

Till two tassels clinging together + 

Let the square room fall away + 

From a round vacuum + 

Dilating with my breath + 

XVIII + 

Out of the severing + 

Of hill from hill + 

The interim + 

Of star from star + 

The nascent + 

Static + 

Of night + 

XIX + 

Nothing so conserving + 

As cool cleaving + 

Note of the Q H U + 

Clear carving + 

Breath-giving + 

Pollen smelling + 

Space + 

White telling + 

Of slaking + 

Drinkable + 

Through fingers + 

Running water + 

Grass haulms + 

Grow to + 

Leading astray + 

Of fireflies + 

Aerial quadrille + 

Bouncing + 

Off one another + 

Again conjoining + 

In recaptured pulses + 

Of light + 

You too + 

Had something + 

At that time + 

Of a green-lit glow-worm + 

вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ + 

Yet slowly drenched + 

To raylessness + 

In rain + 

XX + 

Let Joy go solace-winged + 

To flutter whom she may concern + 

XXI + 

I store up nights against you + 

Heavy with shut-flowerвАЩs nightmares + 

вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ + 

Stack noons + 

Curled to the solitaire + 

Core of the + 

Sun + 

XXII + 

Green things grow + 

Salads + 

For the cerebral + 

ForagerвАЩs revival + 

Upon bossed bellies + 

Of mountains + 

Rolling in the sun + 

And flowered flummery + 

Breaks + 

To my silly shoes + 

In ways without you + 

I go + 

Gracelessly + 

As things go + 

XXIII + 

Laughter in solution + 

Stars in a stare + 

Irredeemable pledges + 

Of pubescent consummations + 

Rot + 

To the recurrent moon + 

Bleach + 

To the pure white + 

Wickedness of pain + 

XXIV + 

The procreative truth of Me + 

Petered out + 

In pestilent + 

Tear drops + 

Little lusts and lucidities + 

And prayerful lies + 

Muddled with the heinous acerbity + 

Of your street-corner smile + 

XXV + 

Licking the Arno + 

The little rosy + 

Tongue of Dawn + 

Interferes with our eyelashes + 

вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ + 

We twiddle to it + 

Round and round + 

Faster + 

And turn into machines + 

Till the sun + 

Subsides in shining + 

Melts some of us + 

Into abysmal pigeon-holes + 

Passion has bored + 

In warmth + 

Some few of us + 

Grow to the level of cool plains + 

Cutting our foot-hold + 

With steel eyes + 

XXVI + 

Shedding our petty pruderies + 

From slit eyes + 

We sidle up + 

To Nature + 

вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†that irate pornographist + 

XXVII + 

Nucleus + 

Nothing + 

Inconceivable concept + 

Insentient repose + 

The hands of races + 

Drop off from + 

Immodifiable plastic + 

The contents + 

Of our ephemeral conjunction + 

In aloofness from Much + 

Flowed to approachment ofвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ + 

Nothing + 

There was a man and a woman + 

In the way + 

While the Irresolvable + 

Rubbed with our daily deaths + 

Impossible eyes + 

XXVIII + 

The steps go up forever + 

And they are white + 

And the first step + 

is the last white + 

Forever + 

Coloured + 

conclusions + 

Smelt + 

to synthetic + 

Whiteness + 

Of my + 

Emergence + 

And I am burnt quite white + 

In the climacteric + 

Withdrawal of your sun + 

And wills and words all white + 

Suffuse + 

Illimitable monotone + 

White + 

where there is nothing to see + 

But a white towel + 

Wipes the cymophanous sweat + 

вАФMist rise of livingвБ†вАФ + 

From your + 

Etiolate body + 

And the white dawn + 

Of your + 

New Day + 

Shuts down on me + 

Unthinkable + 

that white over there + 

вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†Is smoke from your house + 

XXIX + 

Evolution + 

fall foul of + 

Sexual equality + 

Prettily miscalculate + 

Similitude + 

Unnatural selection + 

Breed such sons and daughters + 

As shall jibber at each other + 

Uninterpretable cryptonyms + 

Under the moon + 

Give them some way of braying brassily + 

For caressive calling + 

Or to homophonous hiccups + 

Transpose the laugh + 

Let them suppose that tears + 

Are snowdrops or molasses + 

Or anything + 

Than human insufficiencies + 

Begging dorsal vertebrae + 

Let meeting be the turning + 

To the antipodean + 

And Form + 

a blurr + 

Anything + 

Than seduce them + 

To the one + 

As simple satisfaction + 

For the other + 

Let them clash together + 

From the incognitoes + 

In seismic orgasm + 

For far further + 

Differentiation + 

Rather than watch + 

Own-self distortion + 

Wince in the alien ego + 

XXX + 

In some + 

Prenatal plagiarism + 

Foetal buffoons + 

Caught tricks + 

вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ + 

From archetypal pantomime + 

Stringing emotions + 

Looped aloft + 

вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ + 

For the blind eyes + 

That Nature knows us with + 

And most of Nature + 

is green + 

вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ + 

What guaranty + 

For the proto-form + 

We fumble + 

Our souvenir ethics to + 

вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ + 

XXXI + 

Crucifixion + 

Of a busy-body + 

Longing to interfere so + 

With the intimacies + 

Of your insolent isolation + 

Crucifixion + 

Of an illegal egoвАЩs + 

Eclosion + 

On your equilibrium + 

Caryatid + 

of an idea + 

Crucifixion + 

Wracked arms + 

Index extremities + 

In vacuum + 

To the unbroken fall + 

XXXII + 

The moon is cold + 

Joannes + 

Where the MediterraneanвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ + 

XXXIII + 

The prig of passionвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ + 

To your professorial paucity + 

Proto-plasm was raving mad + 

Evolving usвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ + 

XXXIV + 

LoveвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†the preeminent litterateur + 