Cover art for AL PINTOR SWAMINATHAN by Octavio Paz

AL PINTOR SWAMINATHAN

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AL PINTOR SWAMINATHAN Lyrics

With a rag and a knife
Against the idée fixe
The bull of fear
Against the canvas and the void
The uprushing spring
Blue flame of cobalt
Burnt amber
Greens fresh from the sea
Minds' indigo
With a rag and a knife
No brushes
With the insomnia the rage the sun
Against the blank face of the world
The uprushing spring
Serpentine undulation
The aquatic vibration of space
The triangle the arcanum
The drop of ink of blood of honey
With a rag and a knife
The uprushing spring
Springs the Mexican red
Turns black
The Indian red springs
The arrow stuck on the black altar
The angry alphabet
Turns black
The lips go black
The black of Kali
Charcoal for your eyelids
Woman desired every night
The black of Kali
The yellow and its scorched beast
The ochre and its underground drums
The green body of the black jungle
The blue body of Kali
The sex of Guadalupe
With a rag and a knife
Against the triangle
The eye bursts
Fountain of signs
The serpentine undulation moves
Wave upon wave of imminent apparitions

The canvas a body
Dressed in its own naked enigma

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