[BNP/E3, 31A – 21]

21-IV-1917

Red phantom flakes of demon snow

Poison-locate the[1] sinning air(.)

The white red ground a dim dull glow

Recreates glamour for despair

Because unuttered conscious red

Illusion startles eucharists

Out of the sexual throes unsaid

Upon the red-ghouled {…} corporal mists

Whereupon[2] lucid control-torn

Consequence between err of spirit

And low of † and the untorn

Control of lust outside flesh |*winds|

Long leaking deserts over |*winds|

Of devil range and hunchback |*merit|

[21v]

So devious lark †

Over congruity device

The marred mansion of husband

Filters in dripping sieves not blood

To where white hands her rings tattooed

The triumph of covering to dies

Oh angels of serenely truer 

A different conclusion floods

Serves to intellectual ends

For if continuing ache abends 

And finds hearts jut for the spewed ground

Whose high spaces next to sinking ship

When the lost sigh to glamour tends

And the hour stays slate a |slave’s| whip. 

 
[1] the /in\
[2] Whereupon /That sad |*and|\