Amethyst cluster, Magaliesburg, South Africa: photo by JJ Harrison, 18 July 2009
Unkingd by affection?
One exchanges the empire of one's desire for the anarchy of pleasures.
But pleasures themselves one finds are not domestic.
And the trouble of the soul casts jewel-like reflextions upon the daily surfaces.
One has moved only to a world where the devoted household commonplaces cast shadows that are empires; where the warmth of the hearth is kept alive in a cold that extends infinitely, the dreams of a king, ruthless in his omnipotence.
A plenitude of powers, an over-reaching inspired pretension, an unam sanctum, a papal conceit over all beloved things.
We live within our selves then, like honest woodsmen within a tyrannical forest, a magical element.
Shelterd by our humble imaginary lives from the eternal storm of our rage.
Beryl, emerald variety, seen under ultraviolet light; from Muzo Mine, Boyaca, Colombia: photo by Parent Géry, 28 January 2011
Beryl, emerald variety, seen under ultraviolet light; from Muzo Mine, Boyaca, Colombia: photo by Parent Géry, 28 January 2011
Beryl, emerald variety, seen under ultraviolet light; from Muzo Mine, Boyaca, Colombia: photo by Parent Géry, 28 January 2011
One exchanges the empire of one's desire for the anarchy of pleasures.
But pleasures themselves one finds are not domestic.
And the trouble of the soul casts jewel-like reflextions upon the daily surfaces.
One has moved only to a world where the devoted household commonplaces cast shadows that are empires; where the warmth of the hearth is kept alive in a cold that extends infinitely, the dreams of a king, ruthless in his omnipotence.
A plenitude of powers, an over-reaching inspired pretension, an unam sanctum, a papal conceit over all beloved things.
We live within our selves then, like honest woodsmen within a tyrannical forest, a magical element.
Shelterd by our humble imaginary lives from the eternal storm of our rage.
Beryl, emerald variety, seen under ultraviolet light; from Muzo Mine, Boyaca, Colombia: photo by Parent Géry, 28 January 2011
Beryl, emerald variety, seen under ultraviolet light; from Muzo Mine, Boyaca, Colombia: photo by Parent Géry, 28 January 2011
Beryl, emerald variety, seen under ultraviolet light; from Muzo Mine, Boyaca, Colombia: photo by Parent Géry, 28 January 2011
Robert Duncan: Unkingd by affection? from Poems for Jess, 1952 (A Shuffaloff Eternal Network Joint, 2012)
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