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Monday, April 11, 2011

"GHOST" by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

SURVEILLANCE, CRIME & PHILOSOPHY & CULTURE

Like an Angel, feral eyed,
Piercing to your sleeping side,
Gliding down with oily flight
In the inward of the night,
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When the livid day lights waken
You will my place forsaken
Icy till the evening's here.


As others might with tenderness
Rule your life and your youngness
I shall rule you with fear.


---trans. Hilary Clarke, FLOWERS OF EVIL, Eds. Marthiel and Jackson Mathews (New Direction Press, 1989)


May I ask thee, Great Charles Baudelaire: "What is the mystagogical terror of Angelic Fear? Heretofore, of 'Ministering Angels'???"




RSY Kim, Editor in Chief

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