Local Archive: The Marriage of Philology and Mystery
quotations from Shelley’s ‘Prometheus Unbound’ and Jack Spicer’s ‘Beowulf.’ Also a bit from other Spicer poems. One line owes something to a catalogue description by Delacroix quoted by Baudelaire.
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He read so much Shelley his head
Heap good he
the moral interest of the fable […] would be annihilated
pursued as Python by California Heat & Life
an insurance fable provided for collapsing through
staged forests.
Childe Cole sprang to Spicer’s Babel, pressed select
to refer to the sewer furniture of tradition
In the end, becoming someone else,
rescinding into German apartments.
the grey head of the Cole-
Phelps
Nods
Gray pocket
Traffic department in his school.
Phrased in Vulagate, APB for
Illustrious marsh-stalker sive famous
Marsh-stalker. Clasp thee, his
clue, to remorse, to
Infinity shall
be […[
has read no other books
has scaled the walls of the library
to avoid them, has been unbound
towards destroying public works
in the Municipal Hall of Records.
“Blank is the color of his true love’s Haar.
Gold is the color round his lud’s dissolved brain.
Love is the color of his crime’s true air.
Trap is the color of his liege lord’s plan.
Static is the color of his distant station.
Cold is the color of his steel glove’s rue.
Grog is the drink of his administration.
Coal is the genius of his engine’s clue.”
He read so much Shelley his head
lit off for landmarks on hearing
he’s jammed in a cold black deep.
He read poems in the orbit of a thousand
slow spheres articulating plots against the center.
[In a Beowulf radio-play Cole Phelps notes
every tic performed by language terminates in hoax.]
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