DERMAGRAPHIC (CANAANITE) transla...

DERMAGRAPHIC (CANAANITE)

translated through Andrew Duncan


gazelles. gazelle-
skin, as if well-worn. upon it
image writing, and in succession goat vellum
and upon sheepskin; of thumbnail format
ten thousand preserv pieces. by what means they kneel
over it! like flying blind into the palimpsest
tangle. creature pitiless inscriptions, breath fogged. what
a fluid. "southern fruit," breathing,
"southern fruits!" eye-catching,
recto verso passages. BREATH INSTITUTE
(recovered) there

it was longing for us.

Thomas Kling was born in Bingen in 1957; he now lives upon a decommissioned ...