Sivilla, vyzhzhena, sivilla, stvol.
Vse ptitsy vymerli, no Bog vashól.
Sibyl:
burned out, Sibyl: the trunk.
All the birds perished, but God came in.
has touched
the: spores, bare-eyed: bared mouth is in-
flamed, sibyl, she shudders, glows: sand singes the tips the
finger the tongue strikes sparks in her body: blazes up
*
she: sways,
sibyl, slave to slithering sands she rushes, streams
—
myriad pores — she wafts away she flashes across the sun — becomes:
sunstorm — murmurs she spits, knows: she no longer subsides
*
is:
burst, sibyl, the: sliver in the flesh she is — still bleeding? —
splinters — sundered, gaping: like the lips, stem — is:
gills, lignified
she: splits the light, drips: she rasps, that: shoots up
*
sibyl thus: she yawns, groans: oscillating the: vocal folds,
glottal gaps they
scratch: away over the chalk, scouring, rending a: crater from
hip to throat the: gullet, sibyl, she: trembles, vibrates
*
vibrates,
is: the quivering, sibyl — tremor — twitches: in swirling
sand in
whirling winds she grinds abandoned: the joint sprained, whimpers:
to
the strip: she is consumed — trembles: uprooted pines — she:
erodes
*
sibyl
she: towers up, turns into: cliffs she sizzles is the: spray in the
pores dies away she radiates: sibilants, dissolves – sss – ebbs
floods herself and: sighs
*
g
she: staggers,
sibyl she: breaks up in whirling heat she: sizzles
whistles: swamp, pond slippery thighs the: reed belt soaks she
sur-
rounds herself urgles — adder — slips away in: susurrus
*
*
and
silent, just the scent: burned soil clearing perceptible – is
past crackling – and decay: toes finger the stalk:
a mulch hollow, poking the thrown-off skin: crumbles
down to flaking soles and: starts rustling
