"Richard Powers - The Gold Bug Variations" - читать интересную книгу автора (Powers Richard)

beams.
Can egg-chaos really be all the blueprint
needed

to father out this garden-riot from just
seed?
No end to the program except a breaking
out
in species-mad experiment,
sense-shattered shout,
instruction-torrent: live, solve, copy This,
repeat.

III.

Two men, two women, their requisite
friends,
acquaintances, strangers and
impediments,
two couples at arm's length of thirty years
bend
in ascending spiral dance around each
other.
 All four have traveled far from home
and, in the hour when they need it most,
the grace of reference works won't come
to cure the persistent call of tonic.

"Picture those pay telescopes," he said,
"that sprout up at scenic views. Ten cents,
a minute's panorama, then it snaps dead.
Clicks shut. Cut off. And you with no more
change."

All four must make a full tour of the curse,
and deep in variation, for a moment, lose
the four-note theme, sight of each other,
worse,
Drowned by the pump and swell, the
flood of dates.

IV.

The calendar's fresh beauty is how it runs
through perpetual days, calling us on
to the urgencies of life science, old
names,
genus, species: May Thirds, March
Twenty-ones.