galaxies crash through the atmosphere,
mountains rise drunken from the sea,
trees bow erratically to the dirt
anxiously listening for fissures to burst.
earthworms squirm violently
to excavate their collapsing burrows,
immanent doom drips from super-saturated clouds,
everything trembling,
everything tumbling rumbling fumbling,
rattle-quake-shake-spatter-breaking.
transformation turned destruction,
simultaneous combustion and creation - all forms coterminous.
maybe it's always been this, but
it seems entropy got turned to full blast
and smashed the inner ear drummed balance
of the novice cosmonauts stuck in trance.
leaves still in bloom are ripped from their swaying mother's womb,
snapped branches spiral to doom - wack-spat-crack into the eye sockets of men stuck staring at blood-pockets exploding in the sky,
now blind they scurry on mangled fours to find some semblance of security to reinforce,
naked and shaking and screaming,
"father, please forgive me!"
clawing hands clasped in prayer beat at the gates of hell,
beg to be set ablaze by the passions swelling from hungry chests
or consumed by ravenous dogs raging with rabies and malcontent -
time to surrender to the flood or repent.
every night is heaven-sent,
every blight is eternity-bent.
Lucifer tangos with Persephone in his fiery bed
hands cleansed,
each step placed with intent,
each lie whispered burns red.
remember me, remember us,
all through a kaleidoscope lens,
if the picture is fuzzy
don't attempt to focus
any clarity is projected and bogus,
all reality is morphing
reconstructed moment by moment.
chaotic symphony,
learn to float in it.
learn to dream in apocalyptic creation.
it's erratic emancipation,
or bust.
Aug 1, 2015
Aug 1, 2015 at 5:59 AM UTC
galaxies crash through the atmosphere,
mountains rise drunken from the sea,
trees bow erratically to the dirt
anxiously listening for fissures to burst.
earthworms squirm violently
to excavate their collapsing burrows,
immanent doom drips from super-saturated clouds,
everything trembling,
everything tumbling rumbling fumbling,
rattle-quake-shake-spatter-breaking.
transformation turned destruction,
simultaneous combustion and creation - all forms coterminous.
maybe it's always been this, but
it seems entropy got turned to full blast
and smashed the inner ear drummed balance
of the novice cosmonauts stuck in trance.
leaves still in bloom are ripped from their swaying mother's womb,
snapped branches spiral to doom - wack-spat-crack into the eye sockets of men stuck staring at blood-pockets exploding in the sky,
now blind they scurry on mangled fours to find some semblance of security to reinforce,
naked and shaking and screaming,
"father, please forgive me!"
clawing hands clasped in prayer beat at the gates of hell,
beg to be set ablaze by the passions swelling from hungry chests
or consumed by ravenous dogs raging with rabies and malcontent -
time to surrender to the flood or repent.
every night is heaven-sent,
every blight is eternity-bent.
Lucifer tangos with Persephone in his fiery bed
hands cleansed,
each step placed with intent,
each lie whispered burns red.
remember me, remember us,
all through a kaleidoscope lens,
if the picture is fuzzy
don't attempt to focus
any clarity is projected and bogus,
all reality is morphing
reconstructed moment by moment.
chaotic symphony,
learn to float in it.
learn to dream in apocalyptic creation.
it's erratic emancipation,
or bust.
written the weeks before I graduated college
