The Fragility

Beauty in the breakdown 
Look what I found
Fire in a crisis 
The catastrophe, yes it rises!
The hostility of the light
in the black flats of universe
I survived the wild despairs 
Lying in morbid oblivions
Lady Promethea, your gaze was God 
Desire like a rose eternity
Rose in me 
suburban America burning dust in daylight slums 
build your evening pyres it was desire like a raving Maenad 
the brilliant dying of the light it was desire 
sheathing of the knives of the night it was desire 
god in tripartite it was desire living like moonlight 
Locust feasts berserker of eternity— 
the stillness before the killing 
and I witnessed— 
Desire burned like devastation in me 
Desire like a death to me
The Rapture!
nor could it forget me
I dissociated into Ice Eternity
with an enslavers ring 
And I forgot I was there for a reason 
You had the wrath of charging bulls
and the tarnishment of angels 
I couldn’t stay, sowing wounds 
it was desire 
shackled by the blades of daylight
Cardamom coffee at Home
You had the fragility of desire
parenthesis the breath of life 
who can escape!
the intoxicating darkness
the murmur of earthquakes 
the fragility—she was a fragile thing 
writhing in The Confusion 
The Rapture! it lived on
beyond the slow stabs of darkness 
the saffron waters of Babylon burned everything 
an invasion flamed my veins 
noble and improbable light it was desire
will you endure Heaven’s obliteration 
it was desire
in a Garden of Annihilation
remembering the miracles
I panicked 
THE GOD GRAZES ON
AND I SOUGHT— 
desire like chained eternities
You had the winged defiance of light 
Madonna of the feral sibylline seas
Madonna I heard the far things screaming
Madonna I worshipped liberty 
Your Name rose from the heaving carapace of the Earth 
Madonna of the Anguish I Chose 
You had the warmth of eternal summer’s dark waves
The mountains were moons and I was gone
requiem for the horned bulls of Babylon 
waking the blades of daylight 
it was desire, wasn’t it? 
and I desired that it would sentence me to freedom
the tyranny!
by the wanting rosewastes of Babylon I was gone
I was gone