Les Saltimbanques (The Family of Acrobats) by Pablo Picasso

The German word einfall means "descent" "invasion".  

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"You that fall with the 
thud only fruits know, unripe," 
here wait to be shaken. 

Here we carry, or ought to (driven so much past 
bitter root), sugar, 

not for selves but for the gods to sweeten their too 
objective palates 

(at least they have tongues/mouths, 
we know they have teeth)  

to open them into our subjectivity which, secret told, is 
what they crave, our realist sufferings, such are sweet 
to them, makes them, too, more solid - 

what they seek - solidity beyond our capacities to reify 
but for Imagination which conducts/births them into material 
being. 

Our extreme suffering compensates for, gravitates their 
too refined coldness toward heat. 

They, like scattered flour, having no leaven, 
dream/desire us-the-leaven; they seek/swell 

into what we have, what we bring, we, the most baked, 
to be torn into, eaten, too, for yearning gods' sake. 

They come/fall compelled to colors, palettes, ours, upon 
worn pallets, these acrobats, as yet enfleshed lovers in 
not yet felt world and literal sense, they 

do balance, risk, stumble, break, stutter/cry, utter 
such further dimension into 

desire's bodies, breath, ashes, 
importantly, always just arriving 

forgetting the arguing seed's 
previous vertical discontent. 


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Such skies already known 

limb by limb escape 

slowly their shaping. 

They suspend, extend then 

into their felt fall, 

hard land into waking. 

What uses for tears there 

are gathered there from 

the eye, pour upon the 

cheek from which miscreant 

tongues may most drink. 


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Think again upon these things 

which go about in darkness and 

stumble against begging no pardon 

intent still on passage confused 

for words or Ibn Arabi's Black Light1

no light at all or thing but a gnosis 2

found, or given. 


Gnosis, most striven for, in minutest motes, is. 


All this to say, Ready. 

Darkness. Expand/extend 

further beyond (yet into)  

unsaid street corner, 

into inarticulate cathedral, 

into unutterable mosque, 

into wholly other loci 

dependent upon uninhabited 

blue field, crust, what 

passes for, or has, Light, 

just overtones beyond the fiddle.3


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Now here must stop 

in what is remaining light to cook 


must bend to the purple cabbage at hand, 

the courage of the knife 

the helpful drive of hunger, 


marvel yet again, it's faceted pattern when 

halved, same as the onion, the leek 


Such facets in me too reveal when 

I dare to be loved in two 

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1To read more on Sufi mystic Ibn Arabi and the black light read here at this link: 

https://books.google.com/booksid=19PdEIaFhowC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=ibn+a…

2Gnosis. The word Gnosis is a Greek word for knowledge which usually refers to any type of direct communion with the divine. Philo refers to this as secret "knowledge" (gnosis) and "wisdom" (sophia) of God. It is not only knowledge of the divine, but also of thyself, the world, nature and the Great Work (Great Arcanum or magnum opus). The Hebrews describe Gnosis with the Da'at. A Hebrew word for knowledge, that in the Kabbalah describes a mystical state one has as they ascend up the tree of life to then reach the self-giving Divine Light. The ancient Egyptians had described the Gnostic experience in many texts of their proverbs such as; "The body is the house of God," and "Man, know thyself ... and thou shalt know the gods."

Gnosis comes from within each one of us through the secret knowledge of all things hidden. But this knowledge is not something that you will just find outside of yourself. Gnosis in its purest form is the intuitive spiritual knowledge that comes with knowing thyself and thyspirit. Plato describes this process when he says "all learning is remembering." He calls this a recollection and restoration of the views a person once had, and original knowledge that was once lost. Today science describes part of this Gnostic experience that Plato had described as intuition.