A shelf of memory calving into the sea
like an Antarctic glacier on TV
these scenes of climate change
heightening the senescence
we try to fathom day by day
as yet another point of reference
quietly crashes away
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A shelf of memory calving into the sea
like an Antarctic glacier on TV
these scenes of climate change
heightening the senescence
we try to fathom day by day
as yet another point of reference
quietly crashes away
Richard Sieburth’s translation of the fourth volume of Michel Leiris’s autobiography, Frail Riffs, will be published in April. (March 2024)
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