Anatolia, Ivan, must bear the the
rain
bull antlered temples surrendered
last witness before She was driven down
& the Trojans guilty as anyone
so melt the ironworks, railyards
gathered in pastie rot memories
we'll drink deeply from the bardic strain
and fiddle while dawn corrupts the house of god
power suspended
across heart-fed rose
(binds its
savaging)
(terse infusion:
bone meal and lime
cut into
death throe terror
activates salvent (feathers
her nipple
oracular
plains of myrrh
Phaseostrophe 110
He went down to himself
length of rope
and lake of sin
listening bone ironies
close enough to shoulder the animal
he'd carve from absolution
"Nothing's changed.
Did you think a few lightbulbs
and combustion engines could
dispel the hunt?"
carrion
suitcase
ritual condoms
seal mainline righteous
scraping his wounds -
mumbling
mumbling
down to himself
nothing eyelash ruse
coughing genitalia (the gesture's mnemonic)
lone and clean strung
sardonically breathes
I. The King in his dreams
BUILDING
H a tower
Builders' ballet. Alarum
II. three figures
LAST LIGHT
WAITING
FIRST LIGHT
Breathe
Below wavely ~
III. SYLLABLE LINE
Breathing
I am losing the hold
of my body. My hand
is writing my mind holding
the idea FORTH each word
IV. I am sinking. Brood.
Above a chess table.
He'd like to build.
Fasten to earth to drill
V. ALL CARDS
VI. Ice formations
UNDER STARS
ASTRAL. Lighted
building in a ballet
VII. PASSAGE
I
VIII. SUN
All without a sense
of Time/place
arising from my feet
IX. I am walking across
the Hall.
_
X. TAB. RASA
some locked door
behind which there's
only
black space
XI. TOME
Building
somnial work
Great building
XII. WRITING IN DREAM
READING IN DREAM
OUR LIBRARIES HERE
XIII. Hand. I feel sinking
I feel sinking,
SINKING.
XIV. CONFESS. SONG
thus repeated lines
sinking. Branch the
I have sung
mind. Consciousness
VISION.
XV. Still GUIDE
This.
Through a dark
passage. Red fire in ink
drawn.
XVI. All IO SIN CATALOGUE
I feel like wise
___
KING
ORDERED.
????????
___
XVII. CASTLE /dream building
White stone
dark granite texture
of paper documents
XVIII. Tablets
law of
Medicine
Sin tablet.
XIX. CLOUDY AREA.
______ Field of Flowers.
ARRANGE. words.
XX. some thing
I am reading a text
The rubric says
REPEAT AFTER ME
XXI. Script to celebrate
XXII. Older Sense
A
XXIII. With mottled skins
changing rime
emir. EMIR.
Appendix: The Ruin of the Bestiality Legends
The relic text opening to retrace into the tightly ideated
psychosomatic union, the horrible gemination, singing
standards as blood-eye icons confluent to preside upon
twinbirth, prayer for these half hearts ill gaping, rose
aster emitter to twine cordial in heir-blood coexistence and
writhe in sealing the virgin sores (clad for worn), rotating
snare mantras in an ordered rhythm.
Upon the Lord Sebaoth scull the keyscale script to
coordinate the fratricide theory, the man against himself in
clone colonies addicted to gored blood.
Gilt silhouette: long legged birds of marshes, twin pelicans
to pierce their breasts.