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Klạng [Klangs (Klanges), Klänge] der Klang

1. ein akustischer Eindruck, der aus dem Zusammenklingen mehrerer Töne
entsteht Ich vernahm einen lieblichen/metallischen Klang., Woher kommen diese himmlischen/sphärischen/wundervollen Klänge?
2. der bestimmte Charakter einer Stimme oder eines Instruments Sie mag den
warmen Klang seiner Stimme.
3. nur Plur. eine Folge von Tönen, die eine Melodie ergeben Sie tanzten
nach den Klängen eines Walzers.

tint (tĭnt)

n.
1. A shade of a colour, especially a pale or delicate variation.
2. A gradation of a color made by adding white to it to lessen its saturation.
3. A barely detectable amount or degree; a trace.


I.

What is foreseen is condemned to the formula.

A noun is a word that is the name of a thing.
[Noun, proper name; verb (past participle, from participium, partaking, sharing,
which is appropriate); Noun, proper name; Place, which is like a name; year, or
date, or age.]
A verb, by contrast, says doing or is.

For example: Gareth Davis Mr. Davis Gareth L. Davis—this is quite formal and
probably unnecessary though the L stands for Llewellyn, which is lovely to say and
also to read—just Davis or sometimes The performer The clarinetist The invited
artist but more likely Gareth Davis, which is neither formal nor vague and will do
just fine but also does not tell you what happened before it: his mother’s name is
and her mother’s name was and those came before, of course, but they do not,
still, start anything like induction. So: Jeanne; Hope. All naming arrives too late…

Gareth Davis plays clarinets with every form of ferity.
He is not 25.

One definition of breath is air filled with fragrance.

II.

Anaïs Nin refers to being “the keeper of fragile things.”
Is it the case that we become what we smudge? To finger is also to summon.

The first one, the one from London, at eleven years old,
it was: in the window; not the flute; made of plastic.
Clarinet, clarine, from clair: what is clear, what is bright, distinct.

Insufflate is an interesting word. It can revive.
The shape of a mouth relates to a man, but also to a river.
Other wetnesses include: the spit on the crook, the steams that collect.

Now there are six; and one was born of rosewood.
Acidity’s grinding caress wears on the keywork discolored scars.
Some things thrown away are: reeds, cork, faint whorls and arches.

III.

What was unforeseen includes:

Dissoluble tension in this beveled body.
A restlessness to each antebrachium.

The dark-blue beloved.

Ready apples,
bergamot marmalade,
clean brackish waters.

Ten tongued fingertips.
Also: gray eyes.