Ruin by the riverside
If it was astonishment it had to be light
It was golden photosynthesis
It was the Fire that Witnessed
I was sinking in murder summer tell the vision it was fire in a crisis
IT WAS DESIRE I WITNESSED
Fires on the sutures of the horizon
Fire in a crisis
AND IT RISES
Lily of oblivion
Vengeful and brutal oblivion as the black gorging stars
liturgical smoke of silver and salt
with the delivering fire of catastrophe
burning summer fissured in aimless afternoons
A revenant with the fragility of clouded daydreams
you had the violence of heavens
and the piety of the noontides
It was golden photosynthesis
and I witnessed—
The splintering of the light
Ruin by the riverside
I was sentenced in Time
They will die by the lasso of the night ! and you will rise!
Anabasis once I was like white silence in the stars ashes
yes I will be yours in the pleasures of the nights
there was a smoke ring circumscribing the moon it was desire
god get me out it was a VOID like a wolf’s bloody mouth
the west was a fragile virgin wet with light
you had the drowsiness of firesides
incarnadine dawn I escalated to collapse
Under siege by summer sky winds
I listened to the yapping of black yew trees
Out of the orphaned reaching dark
I was abducted to the cold auroras
lightning’s limbs in waning dawns
I wanted anesthesia on the steppes of Heaven
the greed! the reverence!
yes I spent too much time in the wind
I was an anemone chained to the architectonic deep
fleeing the burning cities
and I witnessed
the footprints of fire
summers ritual sacrifice of April’s knife light
lament of the slaughtered it was desire
I died in the bestiary of the chrysalis nights
You had the clarity of winter sunrises
heaving Earth home to every gilded infinity I fell in
I was naked and dissatisfied even with the dark revelations of the abyss
collapsing like the bare and naked Messiah
Behold the forge moons
and the dahlias with their wilted defiance
Beneath the Ash of Elysium
Heaven was seething madness anyway
You had me unveiled like the entrails of a lily
those hills of ichor and petrichor were singing
absent Regained Paradise
there were masses of jurassic darkness
that was July’s last judgment
and now September screams in shadow sears before us
seize the fire salamander seas
light was your edifice
the engulfing gods I sought
heaven’s dark theater Discord
ragdoll of the incantatory dark
I wanted a cavern dark enough for angels
anemone chained to the architectonic deep
oh entanglements! it was grand wasn’t it
oh god the golden shore of sky the magnificent dark mountains the moonlight
like an axe at my neck! it was grand wasn’t it
the brutality of desolation’s shore
Darkness arrived in Decibels
evanescent Devotion like a chokehold from sacral heaven I was bound in
as the vengeant angels we were astonished by the light
Gold Ichor petrichor
Chrysalis in the equinox tomb
behold the Fishingline Forge moon
we were ensnared by the flashing dawns
in the agony of ages I sought the beauty of being a perfect creation
you had me unveiled like the entrails of a lily
Fire of Isis I witnessed another existence
belladonna wastes extinction in dark plains
our resurrected dreams were defenseless
all the miracles were vanquished
basalt meadows granite nights
we were the descendants of every surviving fire
Devotion like a promontory
Ruin by the riverside
If it was astonishment it had to be light
The Revelation! of the Sacred!
evening’s covenant
give up your dark allegiances
give up your everlasting radiance
Dahlia of the death meadows
soothing wounds from the thorn roses of the voiceless ocean
Endure Heaven’s propagating fever—
Endure the furious and brutal suns—
These were the verdicts of grave paradise like verdicts of desire
the sinking griefs red and receding into Eternity
Fallen daughters of eve an infinity of griefs
belladonna with dark abandon
wandering the Dreaming dead wastes
nocturnal black winds Butcher of the night
you vanquished the miracles
stillness upon the lightning seas
Welcome to the raw apocalypse
unredeemed Mary Magdalene
That Darkness is no Door
This is the Rapture you waited for
ancient ardor the sunset was a raiment of distant fire
The magnification!
Everlasting dark radiance
I stood beneath a sabotage of clouds like a veil of Isis
and I witnessed straying darkness beyond lidded moonlight
Sublime fire of the sunken centuries
We were deep in yearning
You had the desolation of dawn meadows
and I was so in love!
Zephyrs in pyramids of light
it was desire
like sheared armaments of violent Heaven
a sabotage of clouds breeding darkness
summer was burning sepulcher dust
and I witnessed—