Paul Brown
Extracts from NACHTRAG 2. January 1974.
The room of the Little Seamstress
She bade me strip and I warned her: Be wise, agree with this thing and call me in the little passion of your loins, succour from the snake. And her nod did hear me, with both her hands she split me and pulling the small branch from the tree tasted of its sap. A mile I lay in her mouth, the skin of that journey seemed impossible to estimate (like the 2 youths, their 2 horses and their lilies in the story - they are all, in a certain sense, one).
I called gently to the maid, each step of her mouth wandering lightly as a photograph, a scene where I am precisely myself the water soft beneath my hands and for years the landscape stretching like a titan into the small matter of memories and of light. Yet still in that mouth my love was a leaven in me. I made slowly a sweetness, touched and entered into the kiln with a potters care and lay inch by inch absorbed in the heat of the furnace.
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