Captured by catastrophe
the brutality was like a chorus of slaves under the belt
the brutality a polyphony of lives I wanted to forget
before the devastations I decreated
yes I suppered in the silver skies
that darkness was nacreous and wise
Madonna of the selves that died
I suppered in the silver skies
Good morning sunshine, I said to the sepulcher
dispossessed of Dawn
I walked those wilds and then I wandered on
Desire spinning like a liquidating eternity
Desire like golden ruin upon the famished earth to me
I fear it was rolling on
in love with the glowing hours I could have sworn they belonged to me
at the funeral of the stars I anointed you
crisis consecrated you
Then I realized it was drowning oblivion we were sifting through
The death fires danced at night
My fever was rising
Eve of orchid wounds
We were blood carrion soon
In the chapel of The Starved
It was meandering dark
Exodus of orchid wounds
I was through and through
Dispossessed of dawn I walked those wilds and then I wandered on
You were roving with vultures
You had the strangeness of catastrophe
It was a dark and late Genesis outlasting the springs
The sky found us soundless
Exodus of orchid wounds
It was barren land
Everything was moribund
We were shrinking time
Madonna of the shivering eternities
THE AFTERSHOCKS OF DAMNATION
I burned with dusk
Moribund in time
I was sure we had been forgotten
Madonna of the shivering eternities
The devastation of Hiroshima came from the deeps
My waning life it was the wreckage of angels we were entangled in
Like the flooding world I had no origins
The serpent was salvation
I feared erasure and I feared creation
The horizons were shrinking
I declared you a jewel from the Green Gorge of the sea
Even the familiar was spectral to me
I do not know if I wanted only in a fragile way
Both the wolf in the woods and the lifeless lamb were burgeoning decay