Роджер Желязны - To Spin Is Miracle Cat

belongs

to the dancer, the dance

belongs

to the dream.

Dead eyes and iron thrust.

PHILIP K. DICK

God or gods, there is a music.

Once I thought it a stringed thing,

but now I know it's pipes.

Listen as it stills the cricket note

in the soul's dark night.

Love is only part:

Hate in our time

and partial mind

may bring the soul of man to God.

But then again, Cratylus,

who knows? Which Sistine roof

was Michael Angelo's proof?

Under Santa Ana's lights

Philip Dick has known dark nights

barrel of gun

note of pipe

Easter picnic eve

despair koan

and scratched these lines

where neon glows:

Where sound the notes

in every order,

traffic pass -

worlds without end -

by.

Pipe now the last

insomniac shepherd

beyond the dawn,

where bars of light

hold up delinquent day.

Traffic turn left

where fat horses

gambol.

The world's a world away.

TO SPIN IS MIRACLE CAT

a line of dust behind me

dust beneath my wheels

having lived at all

is miracle cat

and peace is war by other means

said a wise old man

the clarity of the blue curve

overhead the bowstring of day

veed taut the tinny notes

of this my radio the sad call

from the pages of a book

are all if truth be known

I can hold within my head

deer on the mountain

blackbird in the air

the world is circle

and movement I its center rider

and each is something else

by other means dust

beneath the wheels line

behind the car our

paws need licking when we

pause to sort the way

that cat is the quantity

the maximum quantum

leap of dust to blaze

of day starting with eye

sometimes catching language

often losing words to circle

and movement to utter leaves

like trees to spin

is miracle cat

TO SPIN IS MIRACLE CAT

by Roger Zelazny

Firs published in this form in October, 1981 and limited to 720 copies, of which 220 were specially bound and signed by the author; of these, 200 copies were numbered and 20 copies were marked "Presentation Copy". The text was set in Paladium, a type design based on Hermann Zapf's Palatino, on the Compugraphic EditWriter by Jeff Levin of Pendragon Graphics, Beaverton, Oregon. Text paper is 60# Warrens "1854", an acid-free paper with extended shelf life. This book was printed, smyth sewn and casebound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, in connection with Paul de Fremery & Co., San Francisco, California.