Tag: alchemy
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Bombposition
Nothing plain about Megiddo Farplain midway devil o’er fiddles Last day and first day reaching around Forces cleaving the blue of the air, the horsemen four aground A belfry with a tongueless bell, inside its shell a thing from hell, its servants girdled round. What will the end look like Suddenly, you’ll see it as…
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Intention
When you don’t mean what you say Don’t get what you said What’s important in naked light of day Won’t matter when you’re dead. Cain first and worst cursed Sevenfold avenged his purported avenger Blistered roaming until last comes first Old at Babylon, older at Jeddah. Despisement is the harshest fate Even Apollo reads unread…
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Inheridance
Uranus didn’t like his kids, passed that onto Saturn Fathers give sons unwanted boons; cruel cosmic pattern. Life is a spear, long hard and kills you Life is a short walk to the graveyard you’ll go to Life ceaseless self-crewing cruise Life palimpsest of successive bruise Life endearing mystery, quest for goldsouled alchemy Life like…
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Last Cathedral
Green droplets of soup Summer logic Haze which is not mist, July’s height Collecting tree secretions in cups and vials Collecting days in twine belted files Distilled experience supremed in a phial No more Cathedrals will be built Says what about imminent return Vaccinated against the possibility, immunitising eschaton No more Davids shall be freed…
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The Camps
Machine apartheid the rule of law Encampments of ostracised women, who serve machines Hair tossed, smell of gasoline on her breath, oil drying on her inner thigh Machinecest, mother of the new diseases With fannies like jellied eels after an hour beneath a hairdryer Charles Babbage erotic nightmare in a tent Using his teeth, upon…