SONNET ABOUT ORPHEUS 3 (MIROIR)
SONNET ABOUT ORPHEUS 3 (MIROIR)
In the Mirror of the Real each scene
found in negation not the lake
of the heart not the body torn to pieces
by the Furies not the tongue of Orpheus
In the Mirror of the Real reversals
doubles, endless folds, oppositions the actual
trees, stones, stars, lakes reflect
the dead, the "irreparable," the under-
world. Eurydice not a person but the cry
of Orpheus: "Eurydice O harsh justice! Eury-
dice" when he looked back and saw
poetry can’t bring the dead
back to life In the Mirror of the Real, both
the underground of the world the under-
side of his body back and forth through the black
liquid of the mirror look, Eurydice,
no hands!
Bangkok, Feb. 2002
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