Drafts 3-14

fromDraft 41:ÊOf This vi. The membrane burst (in fact while I was driving) and black-letter sperm traveled across my right eye. They said "read Lucretius." Seeing the imprint of one's own blood inside one's own body musically calling to friends The tickertape of time thrown out in streamers; Flecks, do you mean the opening ofDe Rerum Natura? Was there something I'd missed? Yo!Êformerly transparent eyeball, fooled me twice. This old eye-blood scatters inside the apparently settled, streaks the back screen with flicks of sibilant salamander writing. I wake to the dropping of this blood-dew any dropso human landslide. I sleep to the beating of this this: of, of, of.DuPlessis, Rachel Blau is the author of 'Drafts 3-14', published 2004 under ISBN 9781844710720 and ISBN 1844710726.