I
Deeply bruised clouds rolled in
encircling and darkening the windows.
In the deepening gloom they held hands and spoke the cold broke the air
footsteps echo down the unlit hall
gathering speed as they fall
the sound of glass tinkling down
all around could be heard
but not seen.
Billowing breath shimmers
a luminous blue
footsteps echo down the unlit hall
gathering speed as they fall
rippling through the black snow
flitting through the earth.
The mirror quakes
and luminous sheets of bodies
waver in and out of focus
footsteps echo down the unlit hall
gathering speed as they fall.
Chanting gathers its vortex-voice
from beyond the rope and the cords:
NUIT HADIT RA-HOOR-KHUIT
low tremoring sacred words
rattling the frames.
footsteps echo down the unlit hall
gathering speed as they fall.
Harnessing the vomiting translucent
cheesecloth smoke eschewing
from the many mouths
all the doors slammed open
all the windows spider-webbed
footsteps echo down the unlit hall
gathering speed as they fall
I I
footsteps stopped but the echos could not the forms stopped writhing within their billowing curtains and dissolved in the heat, the inverted blazing triangle, an eye black and pitiless the doors slammed shut the curtains sucked outside in the gasp of the house, breathless and empty they lay, soulless sarcophagi in their own conjured night
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Confusion in Underground Clouds
PuisiThis is a collection of assorted poems, detailing one consciousness extending and swirling into another, and another, and another.
