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Eurydice/1926 “the horse is surely listening to me”…it has a skull on its underside, eyeholes gyring down… rounds of ink…. on ink of a shadowpool….Socket an inkbody photocell….so-called body open to a deep chamber, a go-between glow absorbed utterly back and forth. Repeat….of what happens in a cell….its own rebound, own throwback and…“behind the rider sits dark care”. Post equitem sedet atra cura….imaginarily near. Inscrutable its wings….Of dark care enfolding, someone…in mounted condottiere….& there’s signs from a dark care….horse a skitter….a pendulum…horse a planchette….magneto….contact brush/bruise of a galvanometer heart shape….its heartshaped magnetic….creep….cross fluxfire….the lineto measure….don’t forget a rèculons…. through a condulet….conduit….early horse a spring….listening, its holes….throwback holes….nose, wings, hooves….scratchtap….drum….cardiographic flutter of, yes, a….& fortune sitting there….a just sitting figure….zincy bluegrey lowflashed….seam….seeme….it takes no time….the plenum….the mirror

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