Fixed to decay Knotted by habit The rituals of bound bodies The dull resonance that vibrates through these days The afternoon’s meshes Pale clotted light I tremble in nightmares of silence Lonely nights in empty houses The night’s slow poison Aimless years from nothingness to nothingness again Kneeling before a void Brought into being in order to suffer New and dreadful liberty Pain and wrath are the singers The great work is a stone