NUCLEAR MYSTICISM #mythopo #poetheme

3D Animation of Salvador Dali's "Galatea of the Spheres" done in
Cinema 4D, by Kallinikou Garufalia and published May 10, 2012. Of
the animation Kallinikou notes "the video...represents nuclear codes
move with the sound that according to Pythagoras is "the music of the spheres".

ALOFT A LOVE
ALONG THE EDGE PLAYED A LINE
STOP—BE TIRED—FEED THE CARING 

… Acis, salted wound asked god

to throw himself against himself

and a broken breaker bled

Galatea shed, the nuclear

s[hell]ed

near the antidote
nurse
dispersed
in conspectu rigor
mortis—de(i)
what shell held,
dull and dead and de
picted
 
           ***

Mneme gifts us near to shore
some farther reach, some wider
vision Galatea, milk white, made

nursing a past never past
nursing a call Polyphemus in love
never heard.

She lays unshelled the edge
falling unhooked out of the mouth
…her drop, an antidote, heart-ease

as if
just like a woman falling falls
in bleached stone breakers
soothing, darkening, blood-soaked sandy
stone, life turns foamy again.

In milk-white skin she carries reflection
something like moons in water.
But like a moon in water
shows us how water sees the moon,
we’ve still not heard that voice
of something earthy that is not earthly
the way the moon sees living psychic
matters.

Which may be why, there in the sacrifice
of a god’s embodiment a
theology of Mneme is nonetheless
both long ago and immortally near
and terribly hard to decode

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