The rhizome, like a subterranean stalk. . . assumes,
by itself, very diverse shapes: from its superficial
extension magnified in many ways, to its manifestation
in bulbs and tubers.
Desire is the creator of reality. . . it produces and
moves forward by means of rhizomes.
An intensive feature begins to act by itself. . .
DELEUZE
AND GUATTARI, RHIZOME
In the parched word, unformulated, it shrinks,
rancid brown membrane ((that is: a delicate drop of oil for the
morning
radiance
of the boundaries, for the tepid
line, well-traveled, that crosses, like a limpid hue, above
the vast sizzling, over the burdened back,
bulb-a drop of animal saliva:
for the inflections, for the fertilized dawn (caress)
which expands to the shore, like foam, a relief;
a fruit-bearing fur-an ulcer of light, a basting: for
expressions fragrant to the touch, to the wrinkled shadow, coveted;
a voice, a loose fiber-a fleece-at random from the chisels,
from the strum of the pick)
on the crest, at the flank, of the magnetizations;
Strokings
and the hair language of rubbings in the lobed bowl
of the bodies. Purple
at the root;
a sponge, a lime, an axillary
mirror: and in the echoes,
stature:
a lark. Rhymes in the lavender;
ice: by the liminal rump, smooth restless animal lips.
Hirsute valve,
alliance, in the overturning; plexus and tendon:
a warmth, a synovial point under the veined delights: ducts
to the pale hidden summit;
a splinter, a ribbon (cat),
an embryo for the bronze of rampant thickets, intimable;
a boiling, a dishevelled mass, a spore:
Cope-tails ajar at the peak of an inguinal taste.
Above the manes; kicks:
In the customary moulds, challenged, of existing, in
their smoky, ovulating rears:
a precise icicle,
an oil-lamp.
Cliffs.
and in the slimy folds, hints of existing,
and on its pungent banks of sand;
pearly figs; laughter;
a lemon on the excited fringes;
tearing: with inaudible glazed currycombs (wine, prehensile and
shaggy),
with thorns the mood, the hooves;
sparking laughter between the inspected
bulbs, the magpies;
phosphorus, winks, echoes
in the claw; the partridge
leaps.
The partridge: fresh bird, plentiful, with solid thighs;
marked sexual dimorphism. Its red feathers, ashen,
conceal. Leaps in ejective parabola above the strawberries;
a fluttering fever. Has gray flanks (Boiling
spongy strawberries, they exhale-from their poppy swamps,
from their verbal mesentery-the delectable lye), slender legs,
a short flight; it runs (sumptuous, overflowing taste)
rapidly.
Opens it full clean lips:
the juice moistens and scents its harness; on its skin
of random stings, eagerly encircles the graceful one,
kicking; the slippery simultaneous nectar
sinks; amazement; vast amazement
among the high-pitched buds;
kneeling, on dazzling knee-backs, erect.
On the bicep, the scrotums; Radiant, acrid. Trots.
Curbed by the illuminated
rumps; cadences; convex rhythm; violet-colored
paroxysms: face down
among deep resonances. Extendible peduncles below the belt:
Sucking from the bubbling shapes; the tongue between
the linking textures, pristine
vulvas in thermal springs, rain for the splintered
nuclei; turbulent rhizomes between the streams, the
jubilant, foaming furs of existence;
beneath fermentable reins, the blankets.
Absorbed
in the beds, expansive. Inundated.
Sensitive forms through the exacerbated straw, sprouting. Vital,
imperishable in their sudden impulses, smooth and tainted by their
ocher,
their splendor, in their yolks; unique to the rubbing
pupils.
Stampede of flames between the furrows, the peppers, the traces;
dense
and exaltable on their tips: by smell. Mineral
burst. A line, a caboose, a speck of dust; Gargoyle.
An ant in the joyful tufts, by the thighs,
the belly; in words)) taut, murky
it shrinks, harsh membrane ((citric. The perpetual shrillness
on the
edges)) drab; its net dims ((on the lubricated boundaries, the
pistil.
-His voice: savoring, performing, plundering it-Light;
in excitable spaces, the seditious act. Labial,
expandable below the cool forefinger, its smoothness; they press.
Magnetism aroused to tasty excess,
the grating. The tickling summits.
-Turning sour, squeezing-in wild splittings
tender. Vortex. Between the irons, the thistles,
instincts. Stubborn rodents
among the threads, the squares, the sieve. A clod,
a lanceolate breath, an itch.
To trail below the jammed, intensive zones.
Papillary knots among the grass. On the facets: the flashing.
An awl, an insect in the words)) sluggish,
crammed ((between the cracks the caesuras, on the reins.
Sudden and wanton they focus them-His voice: slitting it,
opening it, choosing it-, they encircle and cohabit on reflecting
edges)), hollows; their opaque crust ((among the screams,
the fetlocks, the clefts. To exist:))
*A rhizome section seen by microscope; the partridge is a potato cell. The rest appears to be or forms part of the landscape: examine it for what is connected to the libido of horses.
Translated from the Spanish by Thomas Hoeksema