"Seascape with ships," Theo van Doesburg, 1906.

                                                      after Agamben

insomnia, homer, canvas tight
half this list these ships this night

series of followlings cranes winsome
you lose some / takeoff crisp flight

white cranes a plane inclined to kingdom come
seasick and sweating heads named dynamite

wither whither ever whiter sans helen lonesome
navy line to troy, worth it this fistfight

a sea that dare not speak its name for scorn
a love that muffles and refracts my light

a message in a bottle, my crimson hypochondria
my cares my quiets / and a blindman’s

                                                      Osip Mandelstam, 1915

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