Personne a rétablir mon esprit ✠ in distress his faint heart—and he calls me beinn. ✠
Mais toi tu es le bateleur mon fils—ma batisse! ✠ he says a white fox in the snow—a
mole on the mound. C’est le refuge que tu cherches. Look on my affliction…yes
these are the first three signs. Pour toi l’oeuf et la passation. Please; do not curse me!
your own bridge! He wants to be home. There is no woden to comfort me. There is no
world. An uncertain thing among them. But in that hidden pattern the fateful wound
incurrred. Acceptes-toi ce cadeaucée.
Sighing has rottenfrog its bellting…lamenting: ina-ina! inninna! itang venturus est.
Cù cù cù o crow you have come to take my play away.
Lakbay now sean now òg now finds that which I hid in the rock. A book. For where
the water is there the leaves grow. O may his tears again be taken up into the four seas
and my bones again be dignified. His eyes are the mouth of a jar. His eyes are the face
of a clock. With all the martyrs and masters my memory to reverence he must be the
one. This is not a story-book (I may not reveal its contents).
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Vertige, vertige, vertigineux; dommage, deuil, sabot.
Where he is now he does not know.
I looked out the window and saw you squatting on the red anemones, holding a book
I would like to read. What is it you are trying to tell us?
The word I bring you is a rasping heron. In your lust for rebirth you have forgotten
this sound
A-HUNTING WE WILL GO
A-HUNTING WE WILL GO
Yes that is the voice of the seizer WSJRHP
WE’LL CATCH A FOX AND PUT HIM IN A BOX
AND NEVER LET HIM GO…
In the lemonadeberry is ā
WE’LL CATCH A FISH AND PUT HIM ON A DISH
AND NEVER LET HIM GO…
In the babbling brook is ū
WE’LL CATCH A BEAR AND CUT HIS HAIR
AND NEVER LET HIM GO…
In the toyon is ṝ
WE’LL CATCH A PIG AND DANCE A LITTLE JIG
AND NEVER LET HIM GO…
In the lake at the dam is ḹ
WE’LL CATCH A GIRAFFE AND MAKE HIM LAUGH
AND NEVER LET HIM GO…
In the treasureflower is ī
WE’LL CATCH A MOUSE AND PUT HIM IN A HOUSE
AND NEVER LET HIM GO…
In the mugwort is āh
And in this way the sounds of the six lineage goddesses are sealed upon his body
forever. The six places of his body are ratified and strengthened. He screams with the
awful pain of it. I recognize this. I knew this would happen. I recognized this and
knew it was going to happen. I already knew that it was. That was this. It is
happening again. I knew it would happen.
For he is made blind but for the light of a single lamp.
Whereupon like the voice of a mockingbird these words from the ancient gorge
annunciated:
HEM A HEM
So that his heart takes on the green light of sage. So that his neck burns with the red
glow of the manzanita. So that in his eyes glimmer those moonlit fields of chemise.
Was it you who gave me that book?
PUT OFF YOUR SHOES O LAKKUM. IT IS RIGHT AND JUST.
WITH THRONOS AND CRONOS. MAYBE OF SERVICE. NASA
AKING LAMBAK NG AWA KA. THE HOUR IS COMING—IT IS
MY DESIGN TO KEEP IT HIDDEN. WHAT IS IT THAT YOU
HOLD IN YOUR RIGHT HAND?
It is my wand. With it deasail na tuathal. I make myself young or old. I win at cards. I
disappear. I learn the names of things.
WORLD WITHOUT END.
Behold it is a living snake.
What is this vision? Who can heal this wound as deep as the sea?
THE BLACK FIRE OF TURNING AGES AND THE KEY TO ITS
CEREMONIES. THIS IS THE MARK THAT HAS COME DOWN
TO YOU. THE EAGLE RISING OVER THE LAUREL. THE
SCORPION QUIET IN THE ROCKS. HURRY FOR THERE ARE
GREATER SIGNS THAT WE MUST SHOW YOU.
Lakbay offers up enjoyments to sixfold light and dark—a sign unto the yet-
unfinished:
To the river the artemisian incense
To the unseen fire the enkindled lamp
To the springtime wind the balm of aloe
To the bones in the dirt the mariposa lily
To the house of wood the white buckwheat
To the all and nothing the golden yarrow
It is said I should put you into a chest and put that chest in the river and let you wash
up on faraway banks. But do not fear for I would not send you unto an enemy. I cast
the garment of love over you that you might be reared under mine eye... When you
see my sunken arcana in the wine-dark descending you must follow… Keep me in
your rememberance.