4,.ANARCHY

                                   Anarchy is refresented in the figure of a

                                   woman whose entire posture, body, eyes

                                   mouth announce fury. Her eyes are blind-

                                   folded, her eyelids tremble. Her hands are

                                   wet, her tufted hair tousled and her cloth-

                                   ing torn. She tramples over the book of

                                   the law and a bundle of sticks. She bran-

                                   dishes a knife and in the other hand a lit

                                   torch. On the ground at her sides lie a

                                   cracked acepter, a broken yoke, a prayer

                                   rug, a pearl necklace, a silk scarf and foam.

                                   Around her there is clotted blood, motor

                                   parts, nails, screws and puddles of urine.

                            Or again in the figure of a serpent that vomits and

                                                              slobbers

De Tarnac, a preparation act,  de Jean-Marie Gleize

trad. de Joshua Clover y Bonnie Roy
Chicago, Kenning Editions, 2014.