Letter killeth. Cabala : sacred text is "literally" true.

href="http://www.lulu.com/content/884878 signifies the "death", the sloughing-off, of "Henry", student of Pound, "epic poet", sinner-man. The poem, completed on early morning of Good Friday, begins where it ends:

Stub born
grew the
rose.

and

Time flowers on the lips of whispered clay.

Blackstone puts dab of ash on forehead.