CANTO 36
Goes through Northumberland What's an umber? maybe dark red f/hydrated oxide of iron w/some oxide of manganese umbrian earth, umbra, shade where the direct light from the source of illumination is wholly cut off and then, Cumberland Land of Cumbers hinderers, hamperers of redheaded hamstringers maybe mountains, the Cumberland Gap, different f/ the GAP and then, "Englangd" w/ the sound of language in it straight England physical being bodily nature, corporeal I think it's in the phrase Corporal Punishment "Fuck," sd the corporal, not for the first time. "How I feel when Venus is in Scorpio, and Rare beauty instantly all nature dowers." In detriment. Steep descent. Vesuvian, she cranks up the temp. Even this alchemy, converting each instant into the next, fashions locks on my heart. Everything now happens very fast. Laura speaks, "My first choice is to move to Ellensburg and go to grad school at Central and work w/ Fouts in the new chimp facility. Stay with Francesco, fuck him in his bookstore, my own room w/ Gustav Klimt prints, plant trees in the spring, but I'm not sure. He's older and wise, has penetrating blue eyes. I'm young & expectant, and I feel I'm on the brink of a precipice at the top of the world. Now, I'm in Tempe, near Phoenix, afraid of stagnation, covered in my own ashes. Francesco says, this is what it is to experience samsara, inward turning to dig that vibe. There's something breathing, a breathing which wants waters of life freely and gifts of the spirit. I must walk on the basilisk and wrestle the dragon, go where I want do what I want and send this sprig of pungent artemesia to him. I would also give a sun dog and the moon, low & round, the green shade of these cliffs w/ the almost voice of this creek, I send sage from my desert to his." shifting ground Blood world I thus endure a cast She only can radiate. Bless cursor Time from hour to hour love ticked away. She stepped toward me from the shadows to change my life irreparably yet insufficiently for I fail her who is so far above yet that I, made recipient of such amity, am led to the highest good!