In The Heart Of The Heart Of The Shrine

Anne Kawala

before the shrine with the heart I have come equipped with what
what, what, what knowledge,
before the shrine, my heart filled with gaps,
what memories, what medieval memories
at the beginning of the shrine, my medieval memories
were equipped with hop-back hints: hoplaback:
primary school: turbulent times, there are fortresses, wars and crusades, we don't know exactly and hopla,
first grade: they are still barbarians, there are monks, tooth pullers, serfs, rabble, beggars, vassals, suzerains, witches, poverty, and hopla,
fourth grade: wars, outside castles outside abbeys nothing no security, Christianity, oh, they are heavy, salt excise, gate money and so on, people die young, nothing no democracy, let us await the return of birth, let us see the arrival wait for the renaissance, then it will be readable, before that, oh oh, it's chaos...
 
about the Middle Ages my vague memories ask me: clarify
they ask me: clarify the answer to this question that the encounter
to the question evoked by the encounter with the heart, with the shrine of the heart, with the hints of memories, my vague memories ask me:
answer to the question what prompted this encounter, answer to:
did the church allow mortuaries in the Middle Ages?
how, how, in 1514, the church resists a hand plucking the heart from a breast in order to surround it with a golden shrine after bathing it in a bath of mercury?
 
about the Middle Ages my vague memories ask me: clarify
they ask me: clarify the answer to this question that the encounter
to the question evoked by the encounter with the heart, with the shrine of the heart, with the hints of memories, my vague memories ask me:
answer to the question what prompted this encounter, answer to:
but what is the position of women in this society?