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Axis Mundi

I dream of the gaudiness of heaven 
Axing of yet another spring sprung
Sunset was a manuscript of burning 
the clouds were carbon 
I endured the orgiastic light 
from the stabs of streetlamps
a dream rising out of the night visage 
I listened to the vestiges of oblivion 
they were hollow wombs we were cornered in  
like the drowning pall of dawns we went slumbering on 
it was a lasting road
cascading helplessness 
catapulting around the sun!
with that shapeshifter silence 
and the silence was Noise 
you were the luminous white fire 
at the shrinking horizon
order of the forgetting hours 
piety the Fall of Rome was vermillion  
Leviathan of a diffusive universe
God forgot the world in The Confusion
the cacophony!
I wanted Atlas holding the World Entire for me 
mercurial like summer sunsets 
river of Lethe Oblivion’s memory I would
Make a weapon of forgetting 
Piety I was chained in summer darkness
I spent empires in exile thinking I was free 
I had forgotten the commandments of may
but they had not forgotten me
April Oblivions could not be further
but I felt the burning 
the cacophony! rising in my ribs
and I witnessed—

Thursday 08.21.25
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