GR translation: wallpaper awhisper with peacocks
jochen stremmel
jstremmel at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 01:52:38 CST 2011
I would think so: before the blast they did show the peacocks proudly,
now they are reduced to a whisper, by the powdery wipe of Nothing's
hand.
2011/12/13 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
> P24.39-P25.7 As inputs to ACHTUNG got faster, often he‘d show up in
> time to help the search crews—following restless-muscled RAF dogs into
> the plaster smell, the gas leaking, the leaning long splinters and
> sagging mesh, the prone and noseless caryatids, rust already at nails
> and naked threadsurfaces, the powdery wipe of Nothing’s hand across
> wallpaper awhisper with peacocks spreading their fans down deep lawns
> to Georgian houses long ago, to safe groves of holm oak . . . among
> the calls for silence following to where some exposed hand or
> brightness of skin waited them, survivor or casualty.
>
> Is the wallpaper whispering, or is it something else?
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