Darkness and Dazzle
a variation by Richard Price
Richard Price reading Darkness and Dazzle 1928.2 KB
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Ask, answer.
Accident, arrogant. Call it love.
Deny it, expertise.
Cynics, please, and crude.
Refined science,
not forensics.
This is energy, ecstasy,
love, love –
oh and signs.
Love starts,
obliterates. Love is
darkness,
darkness.
Love senses, sees.
Intelligence by force, as if.
Astonished in foreign territory.
Intelligence shines,
perpetual searchlight.
Considers,
can’t make up.
Love’s appetite,
current.
Sanity and salvation separate,
intention replaces reason:
vice loves best.
Power – suicidal,
long
against nature -
distracted,
forget you’re alive
(you’re dead if you forget).
Love’s desire,
beyond measure of nature,
can’t sleep.
Rearranging
colours, turning one laugh unstoppable,
affection scared into shadow.
Well.
All agree who suffer it.
Grip commands
a gaze, one miragey place.
An anger, a blazing.
Look.
Attracted? Paralysed.
Anywhere else.
From a
glance, though, though, though,
pleasure.
That replying glimpse,
lethal,
yearning’s reality,
sharp-pointed prize.
No, don’t think
I don’t think.
Listen –
it’s radiation.
Set in darkness –
no fraud, someone to trust –
dark matter, birth, mercy.
Translated by Richard Price
Page(s) 5-6
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