Bigrammatology - I
the pools where it offers
to our curiosity the more delicate
algae and the weed. water
and fire succeed the town,
the unimaginable zero summer? if
you came by day not knowing
what you do not possess you
must go by a way of
ignorance. in a dim light: neither daylight investing form with
lucid stillness turning shadow into transient
beauty wtih slow
rotation suggesting permanence nor darkness to
purify the dialect of the sea's throat or to an illegible
stone: and now cease to
matter. it
was not to
the fire leaping
to our curiosity the more delicate
algae and the weed. water
and fire succeed the town,
the unimaginable zero summer? if
you came by day not knowing
what you do not possess you
must go by a way of
ignorance. in a dim light: neither daylight investing form with
lucid stillness turning shadow into transient
beauty wtih slow
rotation suggesting permanence nor darkness to
purify the dialect of the sea's throat or to an illegible
stone: and now cease to
matter. it
was not to
the fire leaping
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