Copyright 2013 by Charles Lewin ALL RIGHTS RESERVED No part of this publication may be translated, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from both the copyright holder and the publisher. Cover Photo: Malkhut Lewin Design: E. Shapiro
Printed in israel by Old City Press, Jerusalem
Chapter One
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the stunned
gazers-after the
achievers-of-After two eyes spray out and down, the look of bamboo leaves trailing rain, theyll rise in chartreuse-spring then two bamboo eyes will remember and weep ***
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moving things measure time the deserts basin filled with still-not even curiosity is curarized shifting sands exchange places in perpetual ripples of blank a reaching hand feels only its own wind ***
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sleep back lid-click-shut startle-stab of night clutch the leaves already raising the wind winding the whip to away ***
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Dead sea desert where odd lives and singulars sing prowl of the pride of ones lies at beings border hiker up the hill of unpaired-words to letter-less litter-less generous to singletons the desert is finite-fertile a white dry rainbow bleached crystal in beautys breathless-geometry ***
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the day after a time of low hills acquiescing to the unsaid the roars silent shadow exhausted from waving a widows bye un-echoed by an aqua-regia sky ***
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a dissembled garden resembling the pale light the low sun winter-heavy never appeared a few short notes from a bird-tree un-plugged by the short-ed day ***
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garden-children beauty growing grand-flowers growing beauty joy calyxes petal laughter sweet and nectar cytoplasmic surge the urge to push up and bloom ***
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dependent edema a slough in decline spirit hovers the waters remember the way between separations air waves the wings there beds Being ***
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fruit on a tree a tree that tastes of seamless green harvests violence uproots them both flies arrive ***
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powder-snow banners-up from a peak the subliming-soul frogs-up with each birth each tads noisy jump childs-childs-entry cold eyes at water level startle to see the Sky jump up from his dry sea he saw the night sky twinned in his pond then he croaked good-good-bye ***
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an endless grey-day matrix-locked immobile edge-less after the grimace beyond the grip of bed-rail-knuckles color-squeezed to dead-white a speaker in the ceiling your visiting hour is over ***
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after the soul sails up what trails behind a dark after-image of departures tail the last thing seen a frayed line that parts ***
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food is digested wine stains washed hearty party thanks cold air enters at exit instruments close the lids of cases still a swirling dark-dance a hum drums up vine-shines in shadow-sounds chord-leaf fingers-out every-thing is touched ring-tied swirled-up each part a lute and a listener a sky-baby-cry back to Birth ***
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bee bemused by mimosas vanishing as it hurries in its lingering search along emptys edge missing an imaginary friend ***
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thought-hands hang from the desert hiker feeling for faith of well-diggers who left their initials by slots of bucket-rope-burns dry-lips yearn to kiss The Hand of the unseen Keeper The date-palm-planter Who fills the void with Holes of Hesed ***
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disparate spheres adhered by loves sticky-ness which generates a group sands conglomerate being achieves a new name a family floats in its will of language and gesture big ideas knot ideal-ties these glue-joined arm-atures that hold and are held Up ***
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here t-here what things were when the whole beat ballast chips of final trips mineral chips in fossil array imprint of isnt the incomparable Sky seen by what it isnt ***
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its hopeless to feel alone in the desert not the occasional creak on the dark slope nor the howl too distant to identify nor the crackling sparks above its the shattering silence of absence undistracted by the sway of the green gown walking away its the sense of her her had been presence help-meet half and all swirled up the endless curl and the terrible knowing her ascent followed the curves of His Print ***
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the lizard sits his inner eye sees through the slit if all is one why move the feathered reptile in a flap beaks ex-aspirating for millennia ***
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dark night sits hiker sits desert sits nothing happens by chance a singular circumstance arises a welding a wedding a joyous dance a single circle surrounding All ***
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divine Dead Sea of junk anchor encrusted with worn bits that fits everything in its form-less-ness descended from panoply dull grey clay now glueless loose de-shaped everything you were de-padded silently away ***
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in noisy fecundity of the failed broken-sand and salt deserted and blown by the wind in negation of night a dreamless-sleep depleted even of repeats a lid-less eye hatches a new vision objectless to One-Objective lashed Up ***
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absolute fall to the Dead Sea sweet salt-free Jerusalem heights relinquished to rebound bounce and bound in this a lowest-higher pupation ***
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desert-sting bushed behind beauty a hiker is hooked into its scorpion-dance of fleeted-beauty a slow-sand-song up pastel scales of laddered-light ring rang rung ***
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despite the patience of painted sands theres a desert-urgency of the blank-sandstone-slab clenched white from reach for an arrow a talisman a kiss ***
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hospice mines ether-ore way station the way hay is hoed into bale-fuls ***
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descent to Dead Sea desert litter lies in geological pace salts de-fossilize to primal limber-life in floating vitalize ***
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all the chronometers and the ongoing-eagle that grapples with the snake the madness of being believing its eternity the desert knows nothing grows theres no is nor isnt just tense-less-ness towards else ***
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in face of silence what words can lips utter what hand-holds in a falling-sand-pile to the life-ending-cat that knew home and hearth how to explain cold and empty and missing and thanks unreified ***
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the desert of reaches unreached where the armature unravels still and bare whats revealed is could-should be un-pronounced only a silent text of spaces between notes of falling words barred from higher dimensions as all matter-matted fails ***
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shutting down hollow taste of emptiness metallic sheen of desert-night sand-stone sub-sonic tone bluff beautifully bare marred by an intrusive-green grey shrub lost in a declivity green with envy of emptiness ***
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imaginations pigment fades re-capped in-recall the burnt the ashed at energys lowest-rung those oxide-hues fossilized-flames in frozen-display of roar-stains ***
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record of wrestling in the desert so glaringly truthful the self melts remains remain under the blank-blue blueprint here in no-where even sleep grapples the night hugging it Nameless ***
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the grandchildren grand-worlds behind the Purim-mask of childhood each grows its own-course with calls and choruses from the pomegranate within that seethes with seeds of seditious-solutions to how tart-and-sweet link life-moments into a chain that spells out its unique-name when finally peeled freed jumping-seeds will fill the vacuum with laughter again the silent ears would have heard ***
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a place for every cat with its nip the threshold achieved by sharp teeth and zetabytes goodbye accomplice prowler fellow balancer on liminal limits ***
