THREE CLIPPED CURTALS
I
The penances presented śpacious salutations
Versicolor Raghu, piebald inventor
League dismay ascetic austerities, virtuously shall oppose
Excessive decrepitude, not reft a foeman’s Hour
Disquieted miseŕliness-unsated-hied; absention from behaviouŕ
Three shall abstain from seven,
Seven scanńed surprise; thou hermitage thou inćureth minikin
Runty dialogue, these of obesiance outspread
Piddling infrastructure
II
Perfect ablution, attainable, connubial Soma-juice
Fledged pŕeceptor, Brahmana, butterer
Revered disposer narrating meticulous sacrifice
Unrepentently narrates at histrionic refulgence being stippled—
Avoid helpless relatives, said the mendicant,
Human and suspicious, forgetting why
Ceremonious uselessly endued misery oveŕpowered kindness
Bantam borrowed consanguineous ćalamity
Trifling minuscular
III
Four worlds forsaking tranquility
Quaffing burnished betel anchorite, glittered ańd subdued
Delibeŕate retinue, thy graced-sedgy margin
Million million million upon Agni-hotra
Mightier-affrighted prospeŕity, gaining latticed ignorance…
Lower than that huśband, only fools
Denounce intelligent subjection prepared!
Picayune meadows behoveth ápartments; of the seated
Dimińutive sorrows
aj carruthers is an Australian-born critic and experimental poet, author of the poetry collections AXIS Book 1: Areal, AXIS Book 2 (Vagabond 2014, 2019), the critical volume Stave Sightings: Notational Experiments in North American Long Poems, 1961-2011 (New York: Palgrave, 2017), and the sound work Consonata (Version one: 2019).
