Ezekiels battering the Earth
Lucifer’s light the second of heaven, flushing night’s cheeks with flowery shelta
Riven with age leaking molten ichor
Gloops of sun sweat sloughing
Great scyphozoa of fire
Like a scalding big top
Things immovable under universal laws, hardy solids
Reduce to bubbling heaps
Shattered facets argentify the heel cutting ground
Glass from shattering mirror on the carpet, argyropoeian votives
Judas’ ingots, creak of taut rope, creak of knee awkwardly bended
Rush of a river and angels of the end below
Rush of blood behind the eyes
Every window and mirror is broken, spelling endless misluck
Misrule of nations from on high
Mist rolling undoing nations, poison in the sky
Mountains from the sky
Rotating so fast that observers reported them as stationary objects
Radars alive like Galaga cabinet screens before shorting out
Black disc of offed machine, Aztec scrying mirror
Mourn for what is gone
Lugubrious sons, strangers to yesterday’s vigor,
Like clipped gulls floundering on Latin trawler’s deck
Bound for sun-mad captain’s stomach
Bean chaointe kneeling don’t mind her bad hips and sleepy foot’
To Mourne, mountains which remember recession
Of Ice Ages
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