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The Stomach-Depths of the Eye, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Le Ventre De L'Oeil By T Wignesan

The Stomach/Depths of the Eye, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Le ventre de l’œil by T. Wignesan

Neither hither nor thither nor space nor time neither 
         height nor depth
Nothing
Nothing  without recoiling fold  nothing unheard of  
         primordial Ahan* in a static state
Abyss resounding in silence Where  without echo Alpha’s 
         latent in Omega

Where ?

Where the open mouth’s stuffed  without roof  a hole 
Without walls nor borders nor substance  a gaping hole
Identity without Self  no Eye  without pupil
Immense Void un-divided  neither All nor One
Wind which knows not itself  breath not having yet been 
          born
The Self constricted upon (it)self  its entrails spiraling
Blindness of space in no way palpable

* Ahan: no one-to-one equivalent in English; etymologically an ancient French word with several connotations, such as, labour; unbearable pain; cultivable land; harvest, etc. Here, the possible usage could be the intense energy deployed to engender the contrary of a state of nothingness.

(from Anthologie poétique, p. 32; Sophia, O.C. t. II, p. 195)

© T. Wignesan – Pais, October 9, 2014