FLAUBERT'S anti-Bildungsroman


uncovering secrets
traits, fetishes,
statistics,
in linguistics,
the fate
of impersonal mystics
in St. Antony's confessions
on a  deserted retreat
mad as in a ballistic state
of critical escalations
multiplying impressions
digressions
theatrical intentions
incantations,spelled out
in a literary dictionary
all incandescent jells
of alchemy's retribution
alien retention calls out
in a resurfaced dimension
arbitrary conjunctions,
spiritual injunctions
retributory functions
of eye, nose,ear, throat,
in retroaction, all words
without satisfaction.