FLEETING MOMENTS

Bialy Stocker, Opium

Mame

I am awash

before my own eyes–

turn the light

away

that I might

see

the world behind

the falling scenarios

whose aereobatics

descend in swells

of orientation dis-

allowed.

Spells

arise

from the solar

surface–

entire swatches of conscious life

propelled as misdirection.

Another color

not even held away.

Another general biome

not even

held

away.
——————————
Charles Stein, Barrytown, NY, 26.02.10

 

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SCHOLARLY MUSINGS

Opium

“Opium is the ‘femme fatale,’ the pagodas, the lanterns! I do not have the strength to undeceive you. Since science does not know how to distinguish between curative and the destructive properties of opium. I must yield to it. Never have I regretted more profoundly not having been a poet and a doctor, like Apollo.”

–Opium, by Jean Cocteau (1957)