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lirik lagu richard mitchley - d h lawrence - tortoise shout

i thought he was dumb
i said he was dumb
yet i’ve heard him cry

first faint scream
out of life’s unfathomable dawn
far off, so far, like a madness, under the horizon’s dawning rim
far, far off, far scream

tortoise in extremis

why were we crucified into s~x?
why were we not left rounded off, and finished in ourselves
as we began
as he certainly began, so perfectly alone?

a far, was~it~audible scream
or did it sound on the plasm direct?

worse than thе cry of the new~born
a scream
a yеll
a shout
a pæan
a death~agony
a birth~cry
a submission
all tiny, tiny, far away, reptile under the first dawn
war~cry, triumph, acute~delight, death~scream reptilian
why was the veil torn?
the silken shriek of the soul’s torn membrane?
the male soul’s membrane
torn with a shriek half music, half horror

crucifixion
male tortoise, cleaving behind the hovel~wall of that dense female
mounted and tense, spread~eagle, out~reaching out of the sh~ll
in tortoise~nakedness
long neck, and long vulnerable limbs extruded, spread~eagle over her house~roof
and the deep, secret, all~penetrating tail curved beneath her walls
reaching and gripping tense, more reaching anguish in uttermost tension
till suddenly, in the spasm of coition, tupping like a jerking leap, and oh!
opening its clenched face from his outstretched neck
and giving that fragile yell, that scream
super~audible
from his pink, cleft, old~man’s mouth
giving up the ghost
or screaming in pentecost, receiving the ghost

his scream, and his moment’s subsidence
the moment of eternal silence
yet unreleased, and after the moment, the sudden, startling jerk of coition, and at once
the inexpressible faint yell —
and so on, till the last plasm of my body was melted back
to the primeval rudiments of life, and the secret
so he tups, and screams
time after time that frail, torn scream
after each jerk, the longish interval
the tortoise eternity
agelong, reptilian persistence
heart~throb, slow heart~throb, persistent for the next spasm

i remember, when i was a boy
i heard the scream of a frog, which was caught with his foot in the mouth of an up~starting snake;
i remember when i first heard bull~frogs break into sound in the spring;
i remember hearing a wild goose out of the throat of night
cry loudly, beyond the lake of waters;
i remember the first time, out of a bush in the darkness, a nightingale’s piercing cries and gurgles startled the depths of my soul;
i remember the scream of a rabbit as i went through a wood at midnight;
i remember the heifer in her heat, blorting and blorting through the hours, persistent and irrepressible;
i remember my first terror hearing the howl of weird, amorous cats;
i remember the scream of a terrified, injured horse, the sheet~lightning
and running away from the sound of a woman in labor, something like an owl whooing
and listening inwardly to the first bleat of a lamb
the first wail of an infant
and my mother singing to herself
and the first tenor singing of the passionate throat of a young collier, who has long since drunk himself to death
the first elements of foreign speech
on wild dark lips

and more than all these
and less than all these
this last
strange, faint coition yell
of the male tortoise at extremity
tiny from under the very edge of the farthest far~off horizon of life
the cross
the wheel on which our silence first is broken
s~x, which breaks up our integrity, our single inviolability, our deep silence
tearing a cry from us

s~x, which breaks us into voice, sets us calling across the deeps, calling, calling for the complement
singing, and calling, and singing again, being answered, having found

torn, to become whole again, after long seeking for what is lost
the same cry from the tortoise as from christ, the osiris~cry of abandonment
that which is whole, torn asunder
that which is in part, finding its whole again throughout the universe

- lirik lagu richard mitchley

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