Emergence From Mist

Arcuate hill-round above brineless sea station of observation, 

Broken glass prayer at dockside pillar to Zeus of Disembarkation.

Against Kapok trunk party’s scribbling cartographer leans back 

Striated, flesh feeling, some give; shoulder sinks imperceptible inch as into wet moss

No dizzying ninemileround testaments Kahn’s maths

Same of His dreams, of sinuous rilles

Midway maybe where domes float

Sun unbuttoned the morning coat

Steep ridges like mole’s traffic spanning the boiling basin

Bidden by their wind, windless and winding they trace terran sutures

Like coal seams 

Months to years and turgid time moving with pooled honey’s alacritous pace

Woman’s touch

Like gold seems.


Birds flew from the mist’d orb, as if had animated them

The mist web spun from frame to frame hid every inch of forest

Tree’s celebrating out of its recession

Mist reducing like salted snow, revealing tin-tight sentinels thousands

Whooping gibbons take throne on palm frond ribbons

Yon mist’s night advance routed by royal-seeming morning, ermine clad 

Midnight hands feeling their way, hid night away in deeper night

Braying, baying and bee hums glade thrums, men in pairs saying nothing

Jungle corral 

Deep therein dum dum dum tom drums hidden Schönbrunn

Days marching the total immensity of this vernal eternal, the worried Colonel unfurling like cat-clawed stringball

Millions of buried buildings, surreality hyperreality boreality

Eagles claw-trawl second sea of robing mist, fistful of screaming rodents of which we are jealous

Our zealous Capitan unflapped vows neither disaster nor disease will supplant him

Misfortune, Ms. Calculate [wire-laced love], Masculintellect

Sharp tarot fan of unsheathed bromeliads.

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