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Show The Black Night Is My Purse, And Here's What I Empty Out: S ph r, the word, sahphar- Hebrew for count, my father, saying it; His lips, its sound, thin as the line in the horizon. One coin. The root of sahphar also means tell, recount. Sahphar. A head, a tail. Seepehr. The root, three consonants: 1. Samach ( U ) = An empty eye socket + a brow overhanging = the orifice of my oracular father; and 2. Pai ( 3 ) minus a dot = Phai ( Q] ) = The scowl creasing his face, branding him; a curlicue that skims 3. Raish ( "1 ) = A bended line going in two directions forever; his voice streaming Vowels, loose as cents: ah, eh, a, ee The words have unstable nuclei and brief life spans. Sahphar, seepehr. An index of IDs: Father, Daddy; My father, Him; The man with no name, The man with no title, The man with no nomenclature; Nomenclatureless, You Know Who Postcard with a question: "How are you?" Numbers float out, moments that count. And my father's head, like a decapitated soldier's: saying, "Sahphar!" */ |