(NAUSIKAA, HOMER, and AUTOS on the beach, early morning; the sky is cloudy in shades of pink and violet-grey.) NAUSIKAA: the nights are getting darker, and weve been working like a dog, and like a horse, and like a woman; HOMER: but he would conceal her (for)by(to)the shining- radiant shield. ὃ δέ μιν σάκεϊ κρύπτασκε φαεινῷ. NAUSIKAA: but somehow at times, the memories come through, AUTOS:…
(NAUSIKAA and HOMER on the beach, at sunrise.) NAUSIKAA: you call me cute in a way we cannot fight, HOMER: had not Achilles himself risen-up(indeed)and said the(muthos)story-word; καί νύ κε δὴ προτέρω ἔτ᾽ ἔρις γένετ᾽ ἀμφοτέροισιν, εἰ μὴ Ἀχιλλεὺς αὐτὸς ἀνίστατο καὶ φάτο μῦθον: N: so we call surrender; (Rise, Achilles.) ACHILLES: now no longer exchange-in-turn, (you-two) (them-two), o Ajax and o…
(KOURAI and HOMER on the beach at sunrise, slack-tide.) KOURAI: push pause HOMER: (loosed) λῦτο K: and let the world rest H: but the contest(assembly - games - arena - struggle)disper s e d (unyoked - undid - unfastened - unbound - dissolved - set f r e e released - came undone - relaxed - unfol d e d ) (λῦτο)δ᾽ ἀγών, K: while we arrange our thoughts H: but each people scattered to go (and…
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AUTOS: O(we would be)lord, indeed you have(and hold)lovely Lukia and Meionia and Miletus, delightful(himeroeis)city on the sea, KOURAI: indeed-undead, you winesack with dogs eyes and a deers heart. A: but himself again(bow wow)of Delos sea-washed-round greatly(you)lord(himself). ὦ ἄνα, καὶ Λυκίην καὶ Μῃονίην ἐρατεινὴν καὶ Μίλητον ἔχεις, ἔναλον πόλιν ἱμερόεσσαν, αὐτὸς δ᾽ αὖ Δήλοιο περικλύστοιο μέγ᾽…
but of all human beings, they know by having seen(a few)( glimpses of what could be ) to(m)imitate(mimeisthai)mimitate(sthai) (a wall of birdsong from the east) the babbling, chit-chattering, stammering of tongues of all human beings(a few)( glimpses of what could be )and indeed imiter - 真似する - imitar ꦤꦶꦫꦸ - nabootsen - 모방하다 efterligne - efterlikna - etterligne jäljitellä - подражать - naśladować…
but(him)self, o bearer of the silver-bow, lord who throws-from-afar(hekatebolos)Apollo, at one time(and indeed)across rugged Kynthos you go(you take your way) (pass)(set out)(run)(get onto, out of, into something)(you go on-board or disembark)(a ship)(to bestride and protect a fallen friend)(or to drag the body off)(of an enemy)(you mount a chariot and stand beside another), but at another(time,…
there(o)you, eie!(coming and going)(hearing and seeing)Phoibos(pure, bright radiant one), the goddesses(seeings)(you run)(you shine)(you gaze)(she would gaze)(you would be put in place)(by looking at)(by contemplation)(by the sight)(o seeings) were bathing(you)with beautiful(wood)(reefing rope)freshwater purely and cleanly, were wrapping in white(light)(bright)(clear)swaddling cloth(fine, thin,…
but they(goddesses, wobbly)send Iris(rainbow)forward well-built from the island(this island)to(will)(lead)(carry)fetch(bring)(to-will-break and shiver the waves)(to find yalls secret notes)(seized be?) Eileithuia(mogis-postokos), (they)(holding under)(as of hands to receive)(or a cup)(or lending ears)(supplying, affording, furnishing)(upholding, supporting)(sustaining)(maintaining)(taking upon…
)otherwise, if(you go)(you come)(you are)by me, you would suffer (submit)(dare)at least, o goddess(o dyad-of-goddesses) (dyad-of-looking)(dyad-in-contemplation)(dyad-as-spec- tacle)(dyad-in-performance)(they gaze)(we gaze)(gaze, you) to swear a mighty oath(she, PENELOPE-testing, would swear)(be sworn): ἀλλ᾽ εἴ μοι τλαίης γε, θεά , μέγαν ὅρκον ὀμόσσαι : have(it)be known now, by…
thus(she)spake; but rejoice(and hail)Delos, and exchanging and replying(o replying)(o returning-braiding)she was(amoebeing . . . o holy-mogis-pos-will-be-mother, the whole fog-)voicing-through; ὣς φάτο : χαῖρε δὲ Δῆλος, ἀμειβομένη δὲ προσηύδα: Leto, most-glorious daughter of great Koios(you would mark)(you would cry)(indeed-methinks-i-finally-do — by the dog, shes weaving- all-nighters, for two —…
but the(she-islands)(suns of chickens)(a distemper of asses)(white- tailed yellow-boobs)(underhanded arm-pits)exceedingly were(i was)trembling and dreading, and not one endured to accept(receive)or(to show forth)(display) (explain)Phoibos, even(dyads)being roundly more fat(wealthy, fertile); αἳ δὲ μάλ᾽ ἐτρόμεον καὶ ἐδείδισαν , οὐδέ τις ἔτλη Φοῖβον δέξασθαι , καὶ πιοτέρη περ ἐοῦσα : until when at…
by what means, then, will i sing you, in all ways being(o being)well-sung? for everywhere by you, Phoibos, the laws(customs)(melodies)have been thrown — (cast) (hurled)(struck)(tumbled)(let fall)of the song, across both the calf(maiden)-nourishing mainland and the islands; πῶς τ᾽ ἄρ σ᾽ ὑμνήσω πάντως εὔυμνον ἐόντα ; πάντη γάρ τοι, Φοῖβε, νόμοι βεβλήατ᾽ ἀοιδῆς , ἠμὲν ἀν᾽ ἤπειρον πορτι τρόφον ἠδ᾽ ἀνὰ…
(i)(from-afar)shall remember and in no way(o threshold, o way)would (i) escape the notice of Apollo(hekatos)from-afar, the one whom, when going and coming(o gods)(she would run)(shine, gleam)(contemplate)through the house(build, you)(she builds)(i build)of Zeus, the gods tremble(by trembling)(going and coming); and there and then(i will snarl)(easy)(i will sprinkle water)they spring up(by darting…
another day confined, the dog paces the gate, listening for her long-absent master. but who should she come home to meet, reunion of the heart. and how should we survive the relation. not because its in a book, but because its in our blood, we know the end of Argos. and i, at least, am struck by wonder. i break and shiver. in dreams woven these underwater syllables. i weigh, as it were a ratio:…
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(by the window, plush elephant withheld) leash-lady: play dead. dog: what a world! what a world. leash-lady: no, for real. play dead. (dog reads Shakespeare) leash-lady: so? dog: i wrote a poem. leash-lady: uh-oh. whats it called? dog: “a sonnet grows askant the brook” (leash-lady snorts, un-lady-like) dog: (clears throat) Our juggled heads as dog and bone, Ophelias hair and Hamlets…
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yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes ye syes yes yes yes yes yes yesss o my godddddgodgodgod theres an elephant guess what color! my plushie is a psychedelic substance it hascome to take over the universe, yall — κἀγὼ
mogis pos “in which the author fails at playing dead” or maybe “en-grave-rolling” im very sorry this is terrible i will do better tomorrow i promise or, question for the culture: should i be a good dog or like chaotic neutral?
i feel wrong i feel deadly wrong was it my flaw the day you died i couldnt fake it on a leaf its only human my human alone gone wrong somewhere how could i carry part of a song even for us how can i carry any part when i dont know your part at all when however far i look into the future i see more the garbled tangle of our past and in the past my disbelief grief-black how far i look for strangled…
(all, at least it said) then by me, these two voices en-joined let be, to we, sisters in offering promise and prayer as slight temper to make the passing storms for held jointly, in common, though wounds, in- deed, in kinship be, of beloveds, the poems and a spoken word, silent heretofore — koina my pieces impart, as you impart, as we impart as parts - carried - apart of ones-being-in-love by…
or(am i really)(it says)(be i n g l y or)have you not sensed and perceived( and have you not been run into — )that these(girlssssss) in this way, they speak (and lay )(by speaking and laying) . . . and (she has and holds and carries and you have and hold and carry and) it makes flow and pour and shed and scatter and shatter (by the forked- tongue- vip- er ) ? ἢ οὐκ ᾔσθησαι ὅτι ταῦτα οὕτως λέγουσίν…
exhalation: we need every breath you give we must bind it with our own so the One receives our dyad inhalation: (word being soul) instrument: by through-takings, would you shelter me, O whistling, flute-playing-Pan, through the body of a child, through-bodied-father embodying the all — turnings-conjoined- round O whole- playing-part grown-in, would you put-on your hands? chord: to take care is to…
and once more, again, anew, how — possibly back- wards, by the beach dog — bow wow — aouuu . . . the aim — waiting and looking — for the she-head — if someday, dri nkinsymposian-drunk, would be — to take care — you take care — it would take care — of herself by herself — but without — us finishing it — we being — her soul — we sending her up — in fearlessness — letting her howl — O whole of a…