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Lucy Tonic Nov 2011
Freelance astronaut
With a ponytail
On the late-night shift
Took this rocket many times before
No nightmare grivets

Still something creeps inside
As I watch the metal birds fly
Like the wind before a tornado
Mister Rogers with a red glass eye

And I dream of forts and storm shelters
Paper crackers and magazines
But they're only crops in my head
Ding-**** the witch is dead

Got my coupons
Got my waivers
Better get on board
Blink an eye
Past the borderline
Trace the silver biblical chord

But what's this terror
What's this sensation
I'm alone and bound and tied
Promethean sacrifice
See the cavity craters
In my peripheral eye

Reading rainbow I can't read you
All I see is a misty circle
Butchered ogdoad for a baker's dozen
But three isn't what you'd expect

These ropes want to be untied
Menstrual men and cosmic spies
Feel them all from below
Hear them all from above
Like dead wind chimes
Inspired by a dream
Phae, light
phoe·nix
/ˈfēniks/
Nix, night

...burning itself on a funeral pyre and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle.

    -a person or thing regarded as uniquely remarkable in some respect.


Joseph Campbell

The Sun on it's daily journey rises with shining rays upon it's sides at the horizon; the wings. The Sun is symbolically an Eagle who rises at dawn and soars the day until time for rest. The Hero's journey is based on these movements. ⁽ᑫᵘᵃᵐ ˢᵘᵘˢ ˢᵉⁿˢᶦᵗ⁾

PHOENIX

Night and Day combined in a cycle denoting the Sun's journey. ⁻ᴵᵇᶦᵈ


I am born again
so I must journey,

Paused in a trepidation
noon to my respite,

Moon she follows me
spirit sends my sojourn,

I burn on horizon
my form to ashes,

Tested by the darkness
lair of that beast.

Eclipsing the New Moon
broken her to pieces.

Followed by the dark
By my vanquished foe!

I arise anew, again
Dawn, day, dusk, night.

Naivete
The Fall
Ashes
Katabasis
Tribulation
Rebirth
Enlightenm­ent/Ascension
King
8

OGDOAD

Og(cK): aga/okto/octo
Eight
⁻ˢᵘᵐᵉʳᶦᵃⁿ/ᴳʳᵉᵉᵏ/ᴸᵃᵗᶦⁿ

Do(u)/ At: place of serpents
Place, temple/serpent, snake
⁻ˢᵘᵐᵉʳᶦᵃⁿ/ᴱᵍʸᵖᵗᶦᵃⁿ

The place of Serpents
Council of Eight Serpentine Gods

Duat
Heaven(s)

The eight unknown actions
-deities of elemental materials
Vasus
⁻ᴴᶦⁿᵈᵘ

Sun
Sky
Moon
Stars
Night
­Weather
Water
Nature

A
PILLAR
DJED
pillar/spine

...connected to the serpent upon the rise.


THE
DRAGON'S
MOUTH
SPEWS
FORTH
FIRE
6

The fire of the Sun-

THE
DRAGON
IS WISE/ALL-KNOWING
WITH A KEEN GAZE

For the Moon is thought-
⁻ᴴᵉʳᵐᵉˢ/⁻ᴳʳᵉᵉᵏ
⁻ᴴᵒʳ⁻ᵐᵃˢ/⁻ᴱᵍʸᵖᵗᶦᵃⁿ

And Charon means keen gazer-
⁻ᴳʳᵉᵉᵏ

INSIDE
HIS WINGS
ARE EYES, MANY EYES
-stars-

Gigi
Ig-gigi

Eyes, many eyes-
⁻ˢᵘᵐᵉʳᶦᵃⁿ

BES
A beast made up of animal parts-
...parts of the Zodiac/the animal circus
⁻ᴱᵍʸᵖᵗᶦᵃⁿ

ZU-Bird
Zu
⁻ˢᵘᵐᵉʳᶦᵃⁿ

SOKAR
So
⁻ᴱᵍʸᵖᵗᶦᵃⁿ

­Zu-So:/ˈzō/sō/;
Action/the sigil of Saturn, a repeated action:
-actions that repeat
8
⁻ˢᵘᵐᵉʳᶦᵃⁿ

<A FOURTH ALBUM WITH FOUR TITLES>

8

KRONOS
⁻ᴳʳᵉᵉᵏ
SET
⁻ᴱᵍʸᵖᵗᶦᵃⁿ
Saturn
⁻ˢᵘᵐᵉʳᶦᵃⁿ
8

..­.and his number is Eight...
...eight turned sideways is,

t i m e

OG

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