Re: Mina Loy, 1961...'Photo after pogrom'

> Chafetz Chayim benAvraham wrote:
> Mina Loy, 1961
> 'Photo after pogrom'
> Between Worlds 1(2):201
> © estate of Mina Loy, reproduced
> for educational purposes
> 
> 
> Arrangement by rage
> of human rubble
> the false-eternal statues of the slain
> until they putrify:
> 
> Tossed on a pile of dead,
> one woman,
> her body hacked to utter beauty,
> oddly, by murder,
> 
> attains the absolute smile
> of dispossession:
> the marble pause before the extinct haven.
> 
> Death's drear
> erasure of fear,
> the unassumed
> composure,
> 
> the purposeless peace
> sealing the faces
> of corpses.
> 
> Corpses are virgins.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> STEPHAN PICKERING / חפץ ח"ם 'ן א'ר"ם
> Torah אליל" Yehu'di Apikores / Philologia Kabbalistica Speculativa Researcher
> לחיות -מן ר' ולש'ש'...לעולם לא עו"
> THE KABBALAH FRACTALS PROJECT



More classic Mina Loy poetry, selected by Stephan Pickering. 


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