I was a Ravine

When I see a power line at midnight, I see myself, and I don’t know why.

The devil and his cavalry!
Death met me 
Death led me 
It was July under a late moon
Calling me to survival
I was dying in desire under a late moon
Like a ruination garden 
It was killing me like victory
my destiny in depleting each summer eve
Incineration angel, fever like a flame  
I dreamt of you witnessing me one summer eve
summerfire killing me like desire
and I grieved! I grieved!
A golden golem of god
the daymoon felt me kindling
Like a Nazarene in the tomb of existence 
And I witnessed the golden oblivion
it was singing my name and I believed like a moth to a flaming light it had me singing desire fever in my flesh! the hulls of Hell's ships burning in my eyes! the soft of snowfall it was survival like fire that I longed for a frozen songbird wounded in the wastes of ice it was death that met me in the hulls of Hell and would not forget me the wounding was like a scripture of golden oblivion I slumbered on the eves Desire submitted to me one summer eve in surrender and I witnessed— 
Summer storms and rains 
Like the soft of snowfall 
And I'm sorry I stayed 
Lightning in the veins 
It was a nightmare with limbs 
appendages of dark apocalypse 
I was dead as a Dahlia in the fields
Salt mercury sulfur 
Meeting my maker in the summers sacrament 
I was more creature than creation 
Ophelia sleeping in the water lilies of existence
Grief was an angel speaking 
Stakeout I forgot my ambition 
And I forgot! That I wanted to finish them! 
Hadean era in the black summer skies
Yes I made a catalogue of the gods that deserted me 
Chambermaid in the the nights of Time  
I was a creature forged of fire flame 
The summer cracked like lightning
scarred from the slender deeps of Lethe 
that vanishing isle Desire like the rebellion of angels 
emerging from the dark fist of twilight
into the commandments of fire I made them ash 
from the Banishing flames of cherubim 
Mountains of the marching darknessl
Mountains of the marshed darkness
Where did you wander wife of Cain 
The streetlights were slumbering 
A flood zone of resurrection fire
it was twinkling like desire to me
the rising! the rising of the light!
it wasted inside me 
annihilation in the star minefields
The miracles! The miracles!  
I was a frozen songbird encased in ribbons of ice 
Like Narcissus leaning into shallow pools of disembodied gods
Mountains of the marching darkness
Mountains of the marshed darkness
Briars in captivity
Poisonwood thornblood it was desire killing me 
I made my homes valleys of bones 
Soul-eating sun hierophant in a gospel of Gold  
a menagerie of divinities that wanted to kill me
It was a delicacy
to be eaten by God 
even the sky has stitches 
and I witnessed 
the star settlements erupting 
into the moon’s grotto 
empire of light on the fire cliffs 
I hid like a leviathan of the night 
Fire on the golden roads to the marvelous land 
I summoned storms in my homes 
THE KINDLING 
emperor of ethereal visions
I was Lazarus risen 
Appetite in my ribs 
Like a labyrinth of wanting 
I endured extinction
Newborn in the lungs of the earth 
The Heart Started as a Stone
It was atonement 
the wash of living starlight crying in my collarbones it was atonement for desire like a corridor of time we were in the foothills of bone birch like a labyrinth of desire a fire in the foothills of time and I wanted it mine the hollows of
My throat were voids I was a moth looking for moonlight I was dying on the fractals
Of desire and the stars paraded their light I was at their whispering riverbanks begging for entry
I was a vessel of the sea 
Had the loneliness of foghorns stitched into me 
Had the loneliness forgotten me 
But it made me wiser
and I witnessed 
The supreme things 
In the meadow
In the sea 
Those supremacies were witnessing me 
Finding me unfinished 
Lying on the whispering riverbanks 
And I witnessed 
In the meadow 
In the sea 
The devastations 
Like angels levitating  
Wanting I wouldn’t advise it 
It was desire that was killing me like a summer star like a summer spring Oblivion I was swimming in with the burning bulbs of existence figments of fire and I witnessed—the dark unearthing me like a sleeve of Void I was a Ravine of desiring dying in the ornament of time 
I realized vanity was ambition and desire was entitlement and I wanted like a dew in the dark and I loved you like a far thing and you were distant as where the day breaks and the horizon cracks lightning 
Flowers from foghorns blooming with burning bulbs
Desire I knew it would unearth me 
In the meadow in the sea 
gloaming 
From the cold worlds of the moon 
The night shattered like glass of Milkweed 
Fire on the golden roads, fire groves on the glory roads 
I was a ravine witnessing the torched void rising 
station of summer’s dusk  
I needed a train ride to freedom
desire had imprisoned me in the glades of wanting
Martyr of red tides 
Providence was it existence
Redeeming me in Rowan 
I wanted abundance 
I dreaded abundance 
The sacraments! golden gods swarming summer 
Belladonna in a Corset of darkness
and the world was dead deer
I was a hatchling of existence
Living in the lungs of earth
In the hornets nest
In the hollows of my throat 
Blueblood eyes like bruises 
I wanted you perishing inside of me 
Genesis was a burning cloak
We heard the lilting of angels 
Before the silences 
I was a Ravine desiring
and I witnessed—