Las Meninas III.  

... like a bridge over dada waters ...

THE SECRET ROSE

 

far-off, most secret, and inviolate rose,

enfold it all in these hours of hours;

when time looses its meanings

of any bye-bye.

and the proud dreaming king

who flung the crown

and sorrow away, and calling

bard and clown

dwelt among wine-stained

wanderers in deep woods;

and him who sold tillage,

and house, and goods,

and sought through lands

and islands numberless years,

until he found, with laughter

and with tears,

a woman of so shining loveliness ...

the hour of thy great wind

of love and hate.

when shall the stars be blown

about the sky,

like the sparks blown out of a smithy,

and die?

surcly thine hour has come,

thy great wind blows,

far-off, most secret, and inviolate rose ?

... dada ground control to major ryan ...