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VERONICA RHEN

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Endurance

Every ravishing eternity 
I wrestled with That Angel Antiquity of Fire living like light in my ribs
High on the liquor of moonlight 
Into the god grave I was riding fire  
In august heat I dreamt the wild violences of winter were plundering me
the predation of grief 
Desire was a liquidating eternity 
All my splitting selves unraveled in front of me 
Dispossession
I delighted in the disappearance of drifting paradise 
and I was exiled twice 
And I was exiled twice 
Yes I came back with the weightlessness of light 
couldn't you go with the November moons? 
the untethered wings of the wind unwinded into monsoons 
Burning blue with the summerfire 
The universes Adamantine
You reminded of them
Desire was wild magic to me 
I was an ornament of the earth going under the stillness of summer minutes
and I witnessed 
I was in the atrium of burning blue
in the Skein of Summer 
godless and grand 
acquiring ruination for you!
I was a disciple of fire
Eternity that harbinger of light 
in the vaults of solitude I wanted to die
 
I savored the mysteries asylum of fire in the falling darkness the ordeals would be over soon for a moment we were tombless moons and then the deepening trees met us the dead like umbral shadows I was bruised by evenings leaving me and yes I was vanishing these were violations of immensity
you had me like an emperor of darkness falling for eternity
phantom wings like limbs of light 
in the womb of God I tried to hide 
You had the wilderness of seas 
Mauled by the silken trim of lightning
the darkling stars had my appetites 
it was desire living like light 
Resurrected Ariel on the shore 
I made Communion with cold moons 
desire what a feeble flame to live
for 
I was a fugitive of daylight for it 
Madonna of the polyphony of selves I ended
I suppered in the silver skies 
Good morning sunshine, I said to the sepulcher 
Desire was spinning like liquidating eternity  
Dispossessed of Dawn
I walked the wilds and then I wandered on 
gathering vastness for a famished eternity 
I was in love with the glowing hours they belonged to me 
the devastation of Hiroshima came from the deeps
 
every summer I wanted like a haunted thing
Eternity that harbinger of light 
Madonna of the shattered visages of Eternity
Black wasting dawn 
Who will bait the biting god 
Who will abandon the grace
Bereaved in a cavern of dreams 
I was a native to Eternity
and I thought the wild world had forgotten me 
Like a wrecked thing in the wastes of Babylon
Magdalena of the moths
do your holy work of desolation 
Appetite like a death drive
it was a gilded eternity in the wilderness
and I witnessed 
the Testament of the Earth 
darkness was a prelapsarian garden 
the stars were seething with my petitions 
Harvesting evening light 
This is the Testament of Flesh
I wanted to forget
the dark day star
catastrophe and void 
Flesh eating wasps on meadow grasses 
to the dark day star 
I confessed 
Through ruin and rain
Evangelion of eternity 
Cold fox eyes like searchlights
Oedipus I was eclipsed by the eyes of Witness 
Annihilation in night like oblivion eternity
I counted the eves before I died like an accountant of dreams 
Summer going to the stone tombs 
Annihilation in the night I wish I had died
Zion they were scriptures of nightfall calling 
Ecstasy an Epitaph for the sainted night
The sacred abundances the delight
Flesh of the world wound
You Crusader of chained cities 
Had me Burning Troy like a god consuming cities
That predator anarchy
All my memories go mute at midnight 
You were like ice that survived the first ages
From the hesitating wastes
Wanting Emancipation your blood was like a barbiturate 
I was a storm light sacrament of the shifting winds 
Madonna of the saintly trinity fires
Madonna of the golden nooses 
Flesh Redeemer
disciple of daylight Revelations 
Tell the Titan of Eastern Dawn
that I wanted—
and I wandered on—
God the sun gypsy scattered his graces
Madonna of the Golden Nooses
Madonna like a Sin You Choose 
Madonna of the reveling Meteors 
Madonna like a reverie beckoning 
Weightless like a tempests of fire
It was desire 
Madonna of the shivering veils 
The grandeur of God 
A revelation I had forgotten
Doubt that the stars are fire
Doubt the storms of God were dying 
That dark oceanliner of Eternity 
Carrying an infinity of griefs 
Madonna of the vacancies 
Resurrection roses of Jericho 
I was a wasting thing 
Madonna wherefore 
Madonna whatamI
Madonna of what I witnessed 
In august heat I dreamt of predation
By the wild violences of winter 
Yes the soundless were slaughtered
in a killing spring of starlight 
Summer was a season of brutalities 
Gilded God of fire—
gilded God of furnaces—
I heard the wrath of angels 
That Horizon of Heaven waging war 
God of the furnaces of Creation  
It was irradiated starlight like sprawling dark
In the summerfire of revelation 
Like the warmth of a summer thunderstorm 
The golden gypsy of the Sun 
Her bones were Dark Floating bodies of ash 
Mountain peaks of the irradiated starless dark 
And I needed your light inside of me 
Moonbeams on the moors 
Existence was a spring I was drinking
Dozing like a coward in the deeps   
Despair tore a ravine 
unburdened by burning dusk 
you vanished like hour hands 
tarnishing in light
It was Requiem for the lion not the lamb expiring 
Imprisoned in Veiled Paradise 
Seraph of the seasons incarnating stars
Halcyon thing I was desire decaying or desire awakening 
Ushering the unborn light of meteors 
Desire lived an eternity in me  
Shrinking from the drifting winds 
and I was exiled twice 
And I was exiled twice 
Yes I came back with the weightlessness of light 
Felled eternity was like a mistress of dissolving light 
Forgotten godhead 
The Workmanship of your calamities
The Workmanship of your starlit evenings 
gaining darkness like an armament
despair made me selfish 
deep in the lidded entrails of the earth 
The workmanship!
I witnessed! 
what a vision murmuring I am alive as the flame of the burning shores 
I saw that devastation as an arc of light and I sought it fiendishly 
the burning shores murmuring I am alive I am divine 
Calypso of the frigid eternities 
I was shut in the tomb of my life 
vacant black waters from the captive Earth like stigmata in my palms 
Siren of the black Albion cliffs and I witnessed—
waterbirds drawing dawn’s dark catacombs 
seasons of fire! 
I was extinguished
The miracles were killing me 
All the stars were radiant lacunae
The universe was ending there was annihilation on the horizon
I didn't care the stars were graves first 
Like the singularity I was without origins 
And then that event horizon rushed on towards us

Tuesday 08.19.25
Posted by Nika
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