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Beyond the limits of urban landscape
OCTOBER (KETHEB MERIRI)
City erotopographies
(on
Hiawatha
aria)
S
cene
1: W
hat
is
the
shape
of
the
city
?
Emblem:
As Spring comes and goes, thus the terrain was drawn
while, like a trapper on the Ontario,
going back through the north-east
suburbs towards the via Emilia
searching shelter from the ocean storm
in the evenings of the lowlands
(E)
(G#)
(A)
(D)
à la CCCP
The space between the river and the hills,
(E)
(G#)
(A)
(D)
The frightenend
limen
clutching the hillside,
(E)
(G#)
(A)
(D)
margin blending into the marshy night
(E)
(G#)
(A)
(D)
Ad lib.
under the cold signs of the
Ursa
.
The never-ending shallows where the void
traces increasingly uncertain coastal lines,
draws fossil dunes drifting away,
remote like a yellow and sandy,
distant African weather front,
like a simoon from faraway,
lost at the end of time and parallels.
The setting sun passing through it
in a cobweb of electrical broken chords
in an
alas
! of cold off-key metals:
this is the golden age
Springtime has been a foreboding
of fresh limitless meadows
in the midst of a continent to come,
its rims protected by tall cliffs
against the icy polar winds.
the jungle of June at the heart of the year
and of the hot stream of blood explodes
with a full sun within the days of panic,
at the end of the month of Ophiucus.
The fresh night air welcomes
all children left to themselves,
isolation
of things consumed,
orphanity of abandoned cities:
you can feel remote tangential forces
through their silent body
unknown, incessant waves pass
in front of you in the immensity of the plain:
heavy vehicles fleeing
the lost noise of racing lorries
or a far-off screeching of rails,
the deep breath of the urban complex
asleep, the muttering of ganglions
of vital knots, limbic system,
the oniric chatter of the dead
intertwined with conscious sleep
(it’s the fluttering of eyelashes, the r.e.m.)
(jerking like a reptile or a dog’s nightmare).
Here begins the aeolian landscape
of sandy canyons,
life in a northern
town
where rivers of lead flow,
never-ending boreal plains,
patterned ground and networks.