XXXIX
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Desolate is the roof where the cat sat,
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Desolate is the iron rail that he walked
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And the corner post whence he greeted the sunrise.
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In hill path: “thkk, thgk”
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of the loom
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“Thgk, thkk” and the sharp sound of a song
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under olives
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When I lay in the ingle of Circe
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I heard a song of that kind.
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Fat panther lay by me
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Girls talked there of fucking, beasts talked there of eating,
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All heavy with sleep, fucked girls and fat leopards,
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Lions loggy with Circe’s tisane,
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Girls leery with Circe’s tisane
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kακὰ φάρμακ’ ἔδωκεν
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kaka pharmak edoken
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The house of smooth stone that you can see from a distance
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λύκοι ἦσαν ὀρέσεροι, ἠδὲ λέοντες
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lukoi oresteroi ede leontes
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wolf to curry favour for food
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— born to Helios and Perseis
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That had Pasiphae for a twin
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Venter venustus, cunni cultrix, of the velvet marge
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ver novum, canorum, ver novum
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Spring overborne into summer
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late spring in the leafy autumn
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Καλὸν ἀοιδιάει
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KALON AOIDIAEI
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῎H θεòς, ήὲ γυνή.....φθεγγώμεθα θα̃σσον
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e theos e guné.... ptheggometha thasson
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First honey and cheese
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honey at first and then acorns
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Honey at the start and then acorns
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honey and wine and then acorns
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Song sharp at the edge, her crotch like a young sapling
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illa dolore obmutuit, pariter vocem
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Ἀλλ’ ἄλλην χρὴ πρῶτον ὁδὸν τελέσαι καὶ ἱκέσθαι 490/5
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εἰς Ἀΐδαο δόμους καὶ ἐπαινῆς Περσεφονείης,
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ψυχῇ χρησομένους Θηβαίου Τειρεσίαο,
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μάντιος ἀλαοῦ, τοῦ τε φρένες ἔμπεδοί εἰσι:
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τῷ καὶ τεθνηῶτι νόον πόρε Περσεφόνεια,
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When Hathor was bound in that box
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afloat on the sea wave
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Came Mava swimming with light hand lifted in overstroke
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sea blossom wreathed in her locks,
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“What are you box?”
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“I am Hathor.”
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Che mai da me non si parte il diletto
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Fulvida di folgore
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Came here with Glaucus unnoticed, nec ivi in harum
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Nec in harum ingressus sum.
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Discuss this in bed said the lady
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Euné kai philoteti ephata Kirkh
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Εὐνῆ καὶ φιλότητι, ἔφατα Κίρκη
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es thalamon
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Ἐς θάλαμόν
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Eurilochus, Macer, better there with good acorns
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Than with a crab for an eye, and 30 fathom of fishes
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Green swish in the socket,
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Under the portico Kirké:......
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“I think you must be Odysseus....
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feel better when you have eaten....
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Always with your mind on the past....
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Ad Orcum autem quisquam?
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nondum nave nigra pervenit.....
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Been to hell in a boat yet?
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Sumus in fide
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Puellaeque canamus
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sub nocte....
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there in the glade
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To Flora’s night, with hyacinthus,
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With the crocus (spring
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sharp in the grass,)
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Fifty and forty together
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ERI MEN AI TE KUDONIAI
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Betuene Aprile and Merche
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with sap new in the bough
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With plum flowers above them
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with almond on the black bough
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With jasmine and olive leaf,
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To the beat of the measure
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From star up to the half-dark
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From half-dark to half-dark
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Unceasing the measure
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Flank by flank on the headland
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with the Goddess’ eyes to seaward
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By Circeo, by Terracina, with the stone eyes
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white toward the sea
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With one measure, unceasing:
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“Fac deum!” “Est factus.”
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Ver novum!
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ver novum!
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Thus made the spring,
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Can see but their eyes in the dark
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not the bough that he walked on.
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Beaten from flesh into light
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Hath swallowed the fire-ball
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A traverso le foglie
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His rod hath made god in my belly
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Sic loquitur nupta
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Cantat sic nupta
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Dark shoulders have stirred the lightning
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A girl’s arms have nested the fire,
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Not I but the handmaid kindled
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Cantat sic nupta
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I have eaten the flame.
