AF and PF Canto One.

[Glenn Scheper]

>From two basic premises (FF makes effete, AF restores),
I read 1-6 as evidence of the effete son, living as if
looking through a pane of glass that separates his, a
narrowly constrained diminished life, from real lives.

If AF collapses the distinction, or makes oneself one's
own parent, ornithologist in 71-72 extends the AF=Bird
metaphor prevalent in poetics unto him who studies AF.
I have also wondered, does this rebirth as self-parent
only occur at the initial AF, or is it a regeneration
every time, yielding 1000's of self-parents, as at 74?

90: "She lived to hear the next babe cry." Since AF as
speech act assumes many tropes, including to cry, Maud
may await the chance to abuse each new infant with CL.

109-113: Iridule is much weighted elsewhere. Staring
reveals this trope: Since AF is used to infer, much as
a shaman's fetish to access what is transcendent, the
knowledge of some particular target partner in coitus;
separation of a rainbow from its thunderstorm reflects
this same split, much as Emily Dickinson (AC poetics!)
wrote once that she only wrote the syntax, leaving the
verb and pronoun out. The iridule is "strange" as the
hagios (saint) is uncommon, as AF and AC are uncommon.
The "oval form" is the posture, like Wallace Steven's
"ring-of-men". Since Revelation's opening of the first
seal marks virgin coitus with a whore, there sound of
thunder is attached to coitus--It is a non-speech act
paralleling the speech act of AF in its penile effect.

1-131-1000: I've seen three WaxWings slain (at 1:FF,
131:AF, 1000:decease). Prone and supine always perk
up my ears: The prone-bypass-beneath of 143-145 sound
to me like the jumbled body position of AF. Tin tells
me of an effete son, living a tin soldier's non-life.

146-148 parallel exactly my experiences in an acute
psychosis that followed immediately upon my own AF:
First a grand illumination and mania of being Jesus,
then the despair of being unrecoverably lost, alone.

For me, that act produced an internalized Other, and psychosis.
To wit: self-interpenetration produced the psychotic ideation
of a vase that was spontaneously crazing, becoming an evenly
distributed version of a Klein bottle, everywhere a boundary
where every possible extreme opposite met, touched, were one.

So, this experience felt like the collapse of a wave function,
and I took interest in Hiroshima, as if it's event wave front
were just now passing over me. My self became an atomic bomb,
cringing with every heartbeat as if that were the final tick.

At 161-163, this "tongue" is actually "penis" for I recall in
some extra-canonical work, Gospel of Thomas perhaps, that the
tongue of the beliver is the Holy Spirit: uncommon ejaculation.
Also the Fairie Queene made of AF a knight entering the cave
(his own mouth) of a female serpent, whose dugs (his own penis)
feed her offspring (himself), vomiting up words, books, etc.

And of course, some slight shame of this abject domain lingers,
even for me who's quite the out theorist and expositor of AF.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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