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The Fifth World

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Contents

Aret of Passion..................................................................1Artful Presentation...............................................................2Man, Woman, Stone, Bird...........................................................3First the Novelties, Then the Antiquities.........................................6Pater Familias....................................................................8In Praesentia In Absentia.........................................................9A Slight Disturbance in the Poetic................................................10Secrecy and Lies..................................................................11The Forbearance of Woods..........................................................12Grammar Rules.....................................................................13Plum Toss.........................................................................14Sisterhood of Flowers.............................................................15The Odor of Onions................................................................16I Emit a Grey Light...............................................................17A Small Motion of Sadness.........................................................18The Quotidian.....................................................................19Holy Domesticity..................................................................20Realism and Allegory..............................................................21Praise and Blame..................................................................22What We Receive at Birth..........................................................23Some Impenetrable Being...........................................................24L'Amour du Monde Love of the World................................................25Consanguinity.....................................................................26A Lake of Light...................................................................27A Swig of Illumination............................................................28The Pleasure of Looking...........................................................29Starry Messenger..................................................................30Sphere of Influence...............................................................31Certain as Certain Moments Codify.................................................32As Cut Flowers Standing in a Vase.................................................33Light and Virtue..................................................................34Maximum Cat.......................................................................35Indifferently as Stars Cast Forth.................................................37A Mystery Never Clarified.........................................................38Trigon & Cubes....................................................................39Road Rage.........................................................................40The Spinoza of the World..........................................................41Ancestral Lore....................................................................42Luminous Dust of Perfection.......................................................43Xtreme Rail.......................................................................44Paradise of Necessity.............................................................45Flourishing My Little Fists.......................................................46Infinite Subject..................................................................47Intersubjective Intent............................................................49Bloomsday: 16 June 2001...........................................................50Aremideia.........................................................................52The Floral Art....................................................................53Embarkation for Cythera...........................................................54How Far They Go to the Bournes of Good............................................56First Day of Summer: Eclipse of the Sun Visible across Africa.....................58Between Bright Green Mountains and the Sun........................................59"Electric Life Forever at the Centre".............................................61Plato's Prcis....................................................................62Aristotle.........................................................................63Heraclitus........................................................................65Socrates..........................................................................67Dust..............................................................................69Pythagoras........................................................................70A Forgotten Sun...................................................................73Relinquish or Rage................................................................74Abdul-Waleed Muhammad Ibn Rushd Averroes..........................................75Empedocles........................................................................78The Fullness of Life Not Diminished...............................................81Augustine.........................................................................82Succubus..........................................................................83Zeno of Elea......................................................................84A Picturesque View of Notre Dame..................................................86The Skull and Its Annexes.........................................................88Thales............................................................................89Desse Entretenue.................................................................92Who is Buddha?....................................................................94A Mobile Array of Metaphors.......................................................95A Stillness of Numbers............................................................96The Birth of Venus................................................................97The Smell of Papaya &.............................................................98Touch of the Marvelous............................................................99Theory of the Present.............................................................100Sisters of the Night..............................................................101Altruist, Fatalist, Moralist, Skeptic.............................................102Against a Grey Day................................................................103Caribe Isle.......................................................................104ObjectOrdinariObjectO.............................................................105Rush to Judgement.................................................................106In a Landscape....................................................................108

Chapter One

The explosive view Masterful dread Deep spillover glimmers Sheen light falls Breaks upon edge Refulgent waterfall shines Stone gray speckle Smooth worn by ceaseless Liquid caress Sound of night Movements in dovecote Lap of dog chaps Dripping in satiation Creature fulfillment Mysterious habit Of comfort

Pink flesh through Nibbled wet fur Boredom and spirit neglect Precise measure of Nurse's eye She...