Heirs

Poets enact the violence of language. Dreamless I desired and I witnessed—sunrise like a crucifix! this oblivion of the abandoned! still, I was singing in the midnight winds.

I had a dream of awakening before the white figments of morning
Hushed by morning heirs—the sirens warnings
I do the biddings of midnights
Genesis that wild magic I survived
White lightning into your dark irises
Desire the knife in my ribs
Fire birds of paradise rising with sunrise
These eras of fire deified me
To survive the painful miracles of Memory
Tell them I died in the sunlight
Once for desire
Once for appetite
Lady fortune riding the whirlwinds
Dreamless I desired this wind sacrifice!
Empress of surviving light
Dreamless I desired
I was a universe disintegrating
Barbarians surrendering at the alabaster gates
This beautiful dead decadence of going towards nowhere horizons
The violence! Of paradise!
You were a withering dream
Book of lamentations
in the red streams of early evening
incarnadine as the stars carcasses
grief this wild genesis
Like a rope of god around my neck
I was trapped in fractured Paradise
Behind the veil of midnight
This is exile
This is the mirror of fire
I waited for you in gossamer storms
Wandering in exile, I had to die twice
Once for desire
Once for appetite
California--Winter for the Weak
your shadow across fallen earth
Impaled by veils of starlight
I became as ephemeral as midnight butterflies
to die and die again in jade afterlifes
Songbirds gone silent in the dark transactions of evenings
That Revelation Beast Desire burned like rebellion in me
Desire burned like devastation in me
Lucifer’s rebellion in a sunrise crucifix
This void beckoning black dawn
This lightning at the precipice
It was desire like a salvific grail I witnessed
Gypsy in gown of obsidian skies
Desire like a crucifix in oblivion midnights
Madonna of the obsidian skies
Angels of obsidian on the midnight wires
That I’d like to hang my self by
Graves of civilization’s devastation
Scavenger of beckoning Babylon
It was darkness wandering to dawn
Writing! a condition of survival
for a scavenger in paradise
Decaying black dawn beckoned me on and on
Your irises like burning Pompeii
Angels falling into acid lightning
Your irises like burning Vesuvius
Desire beckoning me onward to black dawns
This is the mirage of fire
Narcissus rising into burning oblivions
Desire with beckoning Babylon
This is how you die
This is hour you resurrect this is how you survive this is how you forget
Desire that devastation graveyard of nations
Every day and dawn I survived
In your burning irises I died I died
In fire like quaking sunrise
We the decadent heirs of the midnights
Madonna vanished into drifting mists
Saint of scattered daylight
into the viper winds, I witnessed
Delight like leading Virgil of the midnights
Yes unbelievably I possessed you for a moment or two
Down my smoked throat, ouroboros
This wild magic, Annihilation
like a viper In the wind
We were graveyards for fallen paradise
You met me with your irises and I died
What delight to survive the crucifix
What delight, resurrection into this punishing stillness
I witnessed and
I vanished
I vanished into mist!
California reveries in the streetlights
This is the mirage of fire
This is how we die
Beckon me black dawn
Beckon me belladonna of the afterlife
That dark Madonna rising with the midnights
Belladonna beckoning
You were a fragile flame in my fingertips
And then I vanished—
I vanished into mist
Madonna of the flames
Madonna I called and she came with the lightning strikes
Paradise I made it my annihilation
Paradise I made it my grave
I held flames in my fingertips
Fragile acts of desperation
A rope of God in my throat
World consuming ouroboros
We survive the gorgeous dooms we chose
I was silent as the nautilus chambers
Inside the dark abysses
Apotheosis I died for this wild Genesis
Sarah in fallen paradise
This wild Genesis oblivion consumed me
This wild Genesis deserted me at evening
Flames frozen on my fingertips
What wild genesis desire rising in your divine irises
I longed for the solipsism of disappearing taillights in the mist
I envied the birds dissipating in high winds
Madonna of the otherworlds with the heirs of gone souls
Everything that deified me
Crackling like lightning
Madonna the sacrificed
I had to die twice
In a murmur of starlings whirring in the midnights
Ascend like the starving flames
Your bloodlines disintegrating
In a hurricane of starlight
Desire’s slaughter I was her carrion daughter
By the way of the rasping waves
Towards glacier twilights
These gales of the fallen
what wounded tomorrows beyond the burning orchards of starlight?
swallow me jade afterlifes
Even my namesake darkness grieved when it heard me breathing
this renewing miracle escaping fire
breathless creation awakened in the chain of Being
I was a fawn in the meadow grasslands
besieged by the beasts of Eden
in submission to stillness I witnessed
the violent articulations of twilight
God of unbecoming in burning Sinai
Hanging angels held by soft skeins
These ruins of silence I survived
Desire the inexhaustible
I resurrected into the azure skies
Sunrise like a crucifix
The fallen dissipating into mist
Dreamless I desired your bright burning eyes like surviving fires of Vesuvius
Desire that wild genesis I survived
resurrecting me in the midnights
Desire this fracturing oblivion
Desire this wild genesis
in the graveyards of Paradise