Antonio Caldara, Da quel strale che stilla veleno, int. Andreas Scholl, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, dir. René Jacobs, in Maddalena al piedi di Christo, circa 1700, enr. 2001

Humming

stoneforlorn

alone

and the brain

dispatches strange will

through locks and coming decay

into lungs cut in dimension real

oh the fright of leaving nirvanah

the intense feeling of sudden deprivation

oh

humming

bodylost

alone

the fright

the arm lies dead against the walls

of heaven the path narrows as

i open the eyes

ever am i aware of my armpits

sweating

of

my marrow

of

my mould

cats are making love with open paws

and mouth

in the path that narrows as

i close my eyes

a heaven of screams

loses itself strange

in empty stories

alone

and my breath is slow

so slow

and mad perhaps is the air

coming in with the howls

of the cats excited

by the fear of leaving

nirvanah