…Pahn is working a
great crane lifting
a leaden object in
the construction
(of what?)
unsuccessfully because
he is not a crane operator but
finally the
operator with crane experience comes and
Pahn
gives the crane over…
…Pahn
with Aiks
Eeunks
Daphnis
comes into a house
where they would eat discussing
the addition that
is now overseen
by the operator/technician
As the four of them look around
the main
room
noting the disorganization
of their thoughts
in the air
and
in the walls behind their minds
the operator/technician comes in and tells them
that they can use
the small part
of the expansion
Lakhehsis
comes out of the
recesses of the old and asks
in which chamber they would like to eat
They all feel the warm air in the old room and then
compare it to the temperature in the
new
holding
out their arms to sense it
passing through the cold foyer in between—
Lakhehsis gives her opinion
and they decide to eat in the new
As Lakhehsis fades
into the old part of the air
Daphnis and Pahn begin
to explore the screen
that comes up before them and find
that the files at
hand have
been ordered logically
Pahn searches for his sexual file to hide it from
the kids (even as he thinks to himself
that they being
teenagers must have their own
sexual files
hidden around the room) but when he finds his
erotic file
he sees that the technician
has locked its icon
into the screen so
that it only can be opened
by Pahn…
…Pahn is walking through a meadow watching
a dog chase birds in
the sky
He tells the dog
that to catch birds
he has to find them in the shrubbery where they are low
to the ground and points ahead to a line
of bushes where large
birds are flapping
and bumbling
through the leaves and twigs
He continues walking
through the meadow around the shrubby thicket
and on the other side he
hears the voices
of his comrades behind
him saying
something with
surprise and delight about
the small cuipas on
the cropped grass
but when Pahn looks
they are tiny ducklings
like crocus in a
lawn a muted Zwanenburg bronze
Pahn puts down his hand and
one duckling climbs on and
thittles
along his arm—Pahn hopes
that the fuzzy
dear
will brush his neck and ears
but
it hops off
before it reaches his shoulder…
…Pahn walks into a
small planky room
where ornaments are
being sold
and finds
and admires
a glass
etching of a
bird
Aiks comes in and Pahn tells
her
of the bird
etching
but he can’t find it now
He thinks that someone must
have come in
and bought it
while he was
looking away
but although he is disappointed
he can tell
that Aiks would have liked it less
and rather
Aiks is taken
by another etching—
the one
of a flower
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