Wednesday, March 7, 2007

How To Build A Toy Boat With A Propellor

Fragment of Cobra, Sarduy novel

Here a splendid bit of Cobra, a novel written by Severo Sarduy, poet, essayist and novelist Cuban.

penis two rivers spring your skin is a river -: one, impetuous, ascends the right side of the body, hoarse, dragging sand-plaster cover you with black ink and a fine brush drawing you up through the right side, a torrent that my breathing grows, strung one on the other, consonants, -, the other gentle, of course, up the left side, slow green spiral , algae in the meanders, the sound of falling pollen, transparency-you drawing the vowels.


The center of your body:
six petals,
six knots, six pairs
tuning. Semen retained

:
syllables to be tied:
ankle bracelets,
letters knees, wrists
sounds, mantras
neck. Semen retained
:
snake that twists and climbs: cascabe-
them between the hinges of the vertebrae
AROUND-dor of the bones and skin flakes rings
gleaming, oiled slide cartilage and surgical spinal
Nen. Lotus
bursting at the top of the skull.
thoughts tion blank.
A black line limits the figure, three channels

furrow that disrupt the body

flowers
three main points
petals.

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