cain
come

observe

mouth
crush
tongue

abraham
kill
son

work
on
wound

together
tie
cord to corpse

collect
carrion

while waiting
for
boat
sea
woman

first
to
last

fall
echo

echo's
fall

suffocated
sing

mute
melodies
murder
taught

in space
scripture stole

always
leaving

blood
on stones

assimilate
annihilation

faith
in fear

faith
in being

wiped off

face
of earth

fulfillment
of first
instant

expectorating
extinction
from first

breath
to
last

breath
to
last

verdict
pure

temptation
treason

collect
fire

wood

pull knife
on ancient
until dance
deformed

sense
aberration
concealed

nothing
noble
cain

are
you
vain

urge
unfolding

determining
it

disclosed

self
before
break
though

i
offer
i
evidence

before voyage

going further
through woods

going further
that faith
allows

breath
painful

consequence

make
manifest
man

fraud
figuring out
faith

with wheel
bent
against
building
for
first
time

structure
divine
power
mortal

absolute
attained
tainted
act
in abattoir

desolation's
force

endlessly
elaborate

before
you start
shifting soil
in belarussian
forest

aware
of feet falling
on top

you watch feet
feel for
your thigh

feet stamping
on earth
archaic
drum
men make

kicking hinges
from history
's house

suspended
between
earth
sky

terrible
knowledge's
terrain

wherever
you are

essences
eliminated

miserable entities
move

thoroughly
in tunnel

trench

death
bed
back

things
themselves

unfold
as you
undress
before
other
farmers
teachers
& the family
who sold you
vegetables
& fruit

unfold
as you see
the scars
moles skin
stretched
of someone
you went
to school
with

unfolding
in way
uniformed men
pull pull
on cigarettes

unfolding
in air
wind whistling
rapidly
past you & through
you

vanished

realm
affliction
annotated
again
& again

& am not ashamed

of going
though
again
& again

essential
essence

you

remember

disappearances
of living

universes

some
street
in
kovno

some
street
in
kovno

some
street
in
kovno

where
men
& women

thought
in thrusts
that you will
never
knows

night
knows

way words
weaved
around
each other

with
momentum
of memories
we have lost
forever

we have lost

forever
faith

faith
can go

faith
can go

fuck itself

i observe
this hour
woman drawing
diagram
on table
two men
watching
& adding numbers

& adding
number
vico
destroyed
one
again

forgot
to tell

i observe
woman
with diagram
not

lost

in bruno's
flames
only
these settlements

inherited

as
night know

as night
knows

greeks
obliterated
greatness

of africa

stealing
this
& that
story

of eagles
gliding
over penelope's
pit

surface
stares

back to back

beast to beast

climbing
on
backs

of one

another
vertabrae

utter
unfolding

remember

recall
loss's
loss

vilnius
ghetto
empty
for projection
of veit
harlan's
film
forgotten

form

less
loss

loss's
loss

broken
boats
follow
one
another
down
river

river
boats

hear holy
men sing
from
shore
shriek
you know
is secret
you cannot
share

even holding
arrows
in arms

foretold
you are

forsaken
you are

pitiless
as you
pretend

living
souls

still

 

 

luciano prisco 'death fugue'