The Anathemata
Sherthursdaye and Venus day (continued)
Here.
Where?
Here when?
Here at the spoil-dump at a war’s term
where the high-flyer stalls
after his concentric
and exact reconnaissance.1
David Jones notes
1 Cf. the name of the hawk-headed god Horus which is said to mean ‘high-flyer’. I was thinking of the mis-called ‘eagles’ that I saw in Egypt which seem to stand still at a great height before they drop on something they have sighted.
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The new rite also holds in time of war.