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Entrapment

Angels with their dark blue attendants carrying revelation
Clarity I scrambled for the abundances in the ash  
radiance and ruin
who can survive the shifting of the light? 
I dreamt the devastations were killing us with desire 
that the dead were baked by dark cradles of delight 
And I was frightened 
Ancestry was dark magic
it was the fire that called this time 
And I panicked 
Earths breathing appendages 
variegated and rioting 
Basilica of pressed eyelids
Like a crucifix of Oedipus 
That Revenant River had its ribs in me 
It was desire I was living 
And desire I was killing 
Machinery of night the birch was burning like a torch all eve I was witnessing
In the yoke of the horrors 
And yes I wanted more for the yawning years 
The cold morning hours arose in rioting  floods of smoke 
And I wanted to know 
and I wanted to know 
Bound in the knife mornings
A yoke like hemlock blood
I was in the epochs of the dead  
the spring the splendour 
the summer 
Eruption 
The Earth Feasts in Sieges of Sunlight 
We were on the edge of things 
There was wind in the Gutter of night 
I wanted in with the epochs of the dead the world was erupting fire in an aria of light I wanted death possessing me like the yoke of the morning 
Unwinding the Noose of the eve
That darkness was baiting me 
And I witnessed 
Like a godless thing 
death was chattering on the worlds rim
I was Unfurling 
Rebellious earth alchemized 
I think it was mercury 
Death was speaking in its arias of light
At the worlds end 
Creation I wanted it 
Creation I was deathless 
In the glowing hours 
Desire was a crucifix 
The earth possessed me 
We were on the edge of peripheries 
I was competitive with death 
It shattered my soul
How I wanted to know if the springs would quake upon us in the mercury of summer
I was through and through I spent doomed twilights in aprils to die here I was through and through not the cruelty of spring in summerfire
There was salt in the shrinking horizons 
I was subterranean  
In the Wasting carcasses of the nights  
Chained to darkness 
Like I was a far thing witnessing salted oblivion 
Always Worship the wasted carcass
Eternity was (under) us 
To evoke anything was to tarnish its invisible grace  

Thursday 08.21.25
Posted by Nika
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