Timothy Lavenz: Myth

intervention by Bacco Artolini on ” Cabeza de San Juan Bautista” de Ribera Jusepe (1644)

MYTH

Insert sunset’s grip,

insert inner obstacle

brave: bids

be yond answering, blinds

reraised.

Ancient

of Days the impeccable

returned to sender without address

in connotation’s marrow

preparing

the holy fuse’s phase.

No way of knowing it

but out: speed of being

laced erratically

into radio-arrows, so that fearless

dreaming reigns in seeming true,

softening the terror

piercing sharpest night.

(Gravestate amazed

unembarassed undelayed

in coming, narrow

thoroughfare of the just

entrusted to you,

placating the unveiled

voidcraze, still counts.)

In unbloated figurance,

finally spare:

The im-

placement inself,

O clear

with you, clears

space.