SONNET ABOUT ORPHEUS 3 (MIROIR)

SONNET ABOUT ORPHEUS 3 (MIROIR)

In the Mirror of the Real each scene
found in negation not the lake
of the heart     not the body torn to pieces
by the Furies    not the tongue of Orpheus

In the Mirror of the Real    reversals
doubles, endless folds, oppositions     the actual
trees, stones, stars, lakes     reflect
the dead, the "irreparable," the under-

world. Eurydice not a person     but the cry
of Orpheus: "Eurydice     O harsh justice!     Eury-
dice"     when he looked back and saw
poetry     can’t bring the dead

back to life     In the Mirror of the Real, both
the underground of the world     the under-
side of his body     back and forth through the black
liquid of the mirror     look, Eurydice,

no hands!

Bangkok, Feb. 2002