Monday, March 11, 2024

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Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Novi Sad.

"When state magic fails unofficial magicians become stronger." --Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

Avantcoureurs.

Borges: Una Rosa y Milton

From the roses that have reigned · cycle on cycle
only to viciously vanish · filched by the void,
i want just one · warded, preserved,
without mark or ping · among all past
existences. · My zeal allows me
the prize of appointing · as never previous,
that bloom unblabbing· that final flower
Milton lifted · to his lightless mug
in vain.--O blank rose · reddish or saffron or pale
broke from a branch · whose garden's gone,
your rendered duration · magic'lly remains
& glows & glisters · in this glass of verse
aureate, ivory, · ashen or magenta
as held in his hands once · that hiddenest rose.

And Must This Body Die.

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