between darkness and memory
split the night
dispossess the parasite
purge the venom from my skull
give me proper burial

Spring - lifeless in palm
Rendered inarticulate
By winter held hard
~the~
Erroneous truth
Breath of fire traces the mind
Opens eye upon
~wayward~
Icons, tombs of flesh
Bury the heart, withers love
Weeping silence blind
~shall~
In red cut fields strike
The fallen shields, kin in death
Haunting songs lament
~in stillness~
Raise the sea skyward
****** in brutal madness
Thunder sings soundless
~rise~
And scream into light
A beating distant land, where
Dormant, blooms the night
~eternal~

WE interrupt our program to brINg you this imporrr…tAnt MESSSSSS…

White wall…
canvas of blood…
symmetrical…
battered consciousness of time…signals switched?
(Aberration)
password: “pepper” …
red skin of the burdened goddess…
breaking the fourth wall…
shattering innocence…
breath of hunger…
awaken…
(I…resist)
teardrops soften…
like rain on a coffin…
but her memory…
my gift, not mine to give…
heterogenesis, external causation…
impute…
(I re…sist)
before the chamber door…
revelation of angles…
wings unfolding…
the golden ratio…
in the palm of my hand…
rain of salt…
offerings for the virgins…
recalibrate…
the heart of the goat…

strike me dead!

in the cradle of my tongue
burns a small pearl

shaped like the moon
heavy as death

in the rift between shadows
pulls my skull into the earth

mouth and fire effervescent
sleight of winter sky  

in sheens of thick molten blue
cruel and raw

cut like god
cracks to life

the face of thunder  
in the cradle of my tongue beset

a pearl of blackest night born
my oath to keep

you wander
through my body
like a child
with a pack
of matches

I am
awake
in this dream
of fitheavy
amorphic
darkness
full of war
parting stars  
into tremor
the beautiful silence
dust
sea
the smash of god
beneath the waves
the heave of lung
cold, gray
heavy as the day
caught in the teeth  
of sky
broken jawed
and    
soft as fire

cold moon…
trouble me not with your naked eye
dark tears of light you liquefy
and bathe in blood slow western crawl
capture breath upon god’s wall
a winter’s river sweet black as stone
in me your darkness flows alone
dispossession life is war
an unsound calm defines your core
so out of place we wander wane
the scent of sun on skin sustain  
my memory through space of kin
between the shadows of our sin
you hold my hand in lifeless rift
and you, oh you and me adrift

…cold moon
in the candle of the sea
holds
the glut of rain
against her beating breast - for me
cascading droplets
into the universe
full of glass
declares:  
“I am the sun, alas
…alas”