Possibilities in Shade by Mariano Peyrou, trans. Terence Dooley David Greenslade ‘the couplet’ a troubadourian coupling

‘the couplet’ a troubadourian coupling of lovers and the knife fight rhythms of iambic pentameter

accretive whole

and urging into being both the living and the dead

Exquisite – a beautifully-written

Possibilities in Shade by Mariano Peyrou, trans. Terence Dooley David Greenslade ‘the couplet’ a troubadourian couplingFear is the liquid state of pain as a wound is the solid state of fear. Mariano Peyrous pulsating and mesmerizing meditation on love, time, and memory, here elegantly translated by Terence Dooley, is at once minimalist and expansive: its subtle repetition of key nouns and verbs creates a dreamscape in which two parallel lines meet in your eyes. If parallel, how can these lines meet? The path to understanding repeatedly confronts a mountain, because