The Fourth Month: April: with
Preview of Jeanne d’Arc
Land,
air and water. Must be added fire. Is utterly altered by fire.
Are utterly altered. And is element only and
in fact the
only element, only earthly example
of four-dimensional form hour by hour; I suppose
it’s true and must
aligned with
that ensure, that erased
inherent in (the very notion of) time.
I’d rather live in the cold. The
three-dimensional, the sky was red, the hours invented and
then bent to
serve.
Someone. Hears.
An arbitrary machine called
Heaven, a silent engine, a single woman
said no, it heals, said the flames
seal something I was just about to think
anneals. I see an edge.
May 19, 1435: The Great
Freeze
Of severe
(sever the
(was weighted so and of this cold
which dure
I saw
(this year in which no flowering
thing flowers
in a single tree,
a tree split lengthwise by the
cold
this morning
were counted
and from the cold had died a
hundred
and forty
birds, the life
of little stones, to walk around
seeing things.
