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Show "SHEET OF MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES OF DESTRUCTION FALLING ON THE EARTH, WITH NOTES" DaVinci I have seen magnolias swell upon their boughs and splay their petals end to end with a passion that was not gentle. And knew, as they shelled the ground one by one and smouldered there that there was nothing to be done. For the earth returned heat with heat so that each morning blazed stilly white and even the rain was warmed in mid-descent and left steaming without form or benevolence. I saw that contagious summer flame at the necks of whimpering dogs, in the groins of men who hunched over the fuses of their fireworks. Saw it exhaust the tears of frightened children silenced by the chaos of colors above their heads, a gallery of shooting stars at their fingertips. For who could resist the burning in everything? Blood flushed at our cheeks like streetlamp currents, like the red rivers of the moon, like our own planet as it sparked against the night sky. We were anxious, anxious - how we could have blossomed into fragments of unfettered power and light! Each a glowing generator of the afterlife. |