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Clytemnestra's Dream (1)

I've followed the trail of campfires Here, here To the Isle of Wight Land of peacock, and peacock noise, Feather and flight, to find another soul Within my sound While I wait out the waxing tides of conquest Beyond, beyond Foucault's abyss (2) Above Derrida's differance (3) There is still light There is a something A hair upon a louse that still tickles with sound Still hums to the beat of clipped consonants, Still begins and ends With the movement Of my fisherman's tongue. When I murder For The wrong prayer on that windless day, The wrong cry caught in fishing nets, I feel, I feel That what I mistook for emptiness Was just the shadow of a vowel Cast a moment too long Across the sea Of intellectual desire. I need, I need To find a centered meaning in my words When I cry as I pierce his heart With the dagger's tongue. How can I commit murder If the word itself echoes Endlessly Through the chambers of speech? How can I act If the only meaning left to me Is an intellectual Factual Fictional Game of Semiotics? How can I look into his eyes If her death was all (4) Was only For the development of theory -  Evolution Of the binary Hierarchical Re-structuring And deconstructing of soul?

Copyright © October 2000 Sarah Nash

Additional Notes:
(1) Clytemnestra was Agamemnon's wife who murdered him upon his return from the Trojan war; see Homer's ODYSSEY (2) Foucault's theory of the abyss of language was that point at which meaning was left without limit, and echoed forever outwards. (3) Derrida's theory of language is that meaning is only gathered through difference; see Derrida's STRUCTURE, SIGN AND PLAY IN THE DISCOURSE OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES (4) "her death" is a reference to the moment that Agamemnon killed his daughter in order to appease the gods so that they would grant him wind to sail to Troy; see Homer's ILIAD


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