[拼貼] From fabrication springs the spiral st

[kamadevas (蔗尾蜂房)]

[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”

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