[Collage] From fabrication springs the spiral stair --a collage of lines from Sylvia Plath’s juvenilia poems From fabrication springs the spiral stair [1] Until dream takes her body From bed to strict tryouts [2] While footlights flare and houselights dim [3] Abracadabra of the rain [4] Nightshade and nettles tangle the track [5] And mock the jangling rain of splintered stars [6] And I, like the children, caught In the mortal active verb [7] Like petulant parakeets corked up in cages Of intricate spunglass routine [8] The fiendish butler saunters in and serves [9] A devil’s cataract of black Obscure god’s eye with corkscrew fleck [10] I sought my image In the scorching glass [11] A mermaid odalisque lolls at her ease With orange scallops tangled in wet hair [12] I’m through with this grand looking-glass hotel Where adjectives play croquet with flamingo nouns [13] Steepling snake in that contrary light Invades the dilate lens of genesis [14] Air alters into glass and the whole sky Grows brittle as a tilted china bowl [15] A lone beachcomber squats among the wrack Of kaleidoscope shells [16] There is nothing more for me to say The colored tenst all topple in the bay [17] Then hurl the bare world like a bluegreen ball Back into the holocaust [18] While the gnawings of love begin Mocking as Mephistopheles [19] With recollection’s ticking thorns [20] Revolving in oval loops of solar speed [21] The suave eternal serpents promise bliss To mortal children longing to be gay [22] For deadly secrets strike when understood [23] Tell me quick, darling, tell me now [24] Footnotes： [1] “The Princess and the Goblins” [2] “Aerialist” [3] “Love Is a Parallax” [4] “Insolent Storm Strikes at the skull” [5] “Temper of Time” [6] “Epitaph in Three Parts” [7] “Touch-and-Go” [8] “Morning in the Hospital Solarium” [9] “Terminal” [10] “Black Pine Tree in an Orange Light” [11] “On Looking into the Eyes of a Demon Lover” [12] “Midsummer Mobile” [13] “A Sorcerer Bids Farewell to Seem” [14] “Sonnet to Satan” [15] “Prologue to Spring” [16] “Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea” [17] “Denouement” [18] “Song for a Revolutionary Love” [19] “Circus in Three Rings” [20] “Danse macabre” [21] “The Dead” [22] “Never try to trick me with a kiss” [23] “Admonitions” [24] “The Dispossessed” -- http://blog.roodo.com/kamadevas --

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