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God mountain maker

He takes his scales to everything and modifies the surfeit

With an arch engineer’s autistic precision

The spread legs of his vast compass form a darkening arch over the world.


His works are balanced

Light twinned to dark, exceeding it in number if not in boldness

Craft built like the universe was

Spheres within spheres within spheres, emanating from Him

Song of rotation, song of grinding, song of angles, song of nailless Solomon

Drill bombs bore deep

Exposing diamond hives and reservoirs of old extinction

Explosions force birth new mountains

Buckling stone like dishevelled carpet unfurls upward

Placid scientists in xanthine hazmats collect core samples

Rare plants from sino-tibetan exclusion zones vex botanists

Untypical behaviours replicable under trial circumstance

Inner helices probed, occulted data teased out like squid ink

Berries resembling blue peppers, thin stretched bulb skin like old balloons

Chagrin communicated as a volley of tremors, trapping workmen below

Tomorrow’s diamonds.


No external force acts upon him

Nothing without alter his will

Long gestating his planned creation

He sets markers upon time

The largest thereof a glass monolith

This momentolith called T

Prima materia of ultimate alchemy is nothing

Nothing will come of nothing, quoth the Thoth whose lyrics shook the sphere

Nothing to nothing to nothing, then back to one again

Contingent destinies circle a single mandatory part, his becogged mind

Violent birth of long-dreamt world.


Shadows of the Creation

Ravenous for human chymos

Blood bloated the ill manifested adopt graven gaps and ledge shielded delves

Wonders at the conclusion of each day’s labour

Long-planned spontaneity

A wonder to each city of lore: Murias, Falias, Gorias, Findias.

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