systems

offshooting

spreading

stemming

growing fruity

podocephalous

the fold

withered

brutti, sporchi e cattivi

crash

the crack

cracks

the guardian of the garden grave

romanticism implies poiesis, and poetic poiesis implies the absent. as death is the absolute and ultimate absence, thanatos is conjunct to eros in the garden which holds the grave, our own, that of human mortality. the guardian of the grave, the grave itself, repeats the original misfit of adam and eve, and disquiets the landscape by perpetuating their crime. obscene because haunted by death, pornographic because of the unspeakable promiscuity of the copulative two and transgressive because formal submission is forever dismissed, the guardian of the garden perverses in the most excessive of romanticisms, the phantasmic projection of our own death.
call it a pavilion.

the guardian of the garden grave