SAD SAD SAD Song Sunday. Rest in the most blissful peace Herb Murray. Only Death by Pablo Neruda There are lone cemeteries. tombs filled with soundless bones, the heart passing through a tunnel dark, dark, dark, like a shipwreck we die inward, like smothering in our hearts, like slowly falling from our skin down to our soul. There are corpses, there are feet of sticky, cold gravestone, there is death in the bones, like a pure sound, like a bark without a dog, coming from certain bells, from certain tombs, growing in the dampness like teardrops or raindrops. I see alone, at times, coffins with sails weighing anchor with pale corpses, with dead-tressed women, with bakers white as angels, with pensive girls married to notaries, coffins going up the vertical river of the dead, the dark purple river, upstream, with the sails swollen by the sound of death, swollen by the silent sound of death. To resonance comes death like a shoe without a foot, like a suit without a man, she comes to knock with a stoneless and fingerless ring, she comes to shout without mouth, without tongue, without throat. Yet her steps sound and her dress sounds, silent, like a tree. I know little, I am not well acquainted, I can scarcely see, but I think that her song has the color of moist violets, of violets accustomed to the earth, because the face of death is green, and the gaze of death is green, with the sharp dampness of a violet leaf and its dark color of exasperated winter. But death also goes through the world dressed as a broom, she licks the ground looking for corpses, death is in the broom, it is death’s tongue looking for dead bodies, it is death’s needle looking for thread. Death is on the cots: in the slow mattresses, in the black blankets she lives stretched out, and she suddenly blows: she blows a dark sound that puffs out sheets, and there are beds sailing to a port where she is waiting, dressed as an admiral.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 02:24:18 +0000
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