The Psychotropic Squalls

To peer into the obverse

into smoking cane field erratums

as if haunted with the steamy colitis of whirling iridium

cancellations

as in the saliva of newts

one sees the intestinal raging of deltas

of blackened sea giraffes osmotically split into simultaneous alums

above a judgemental sea glistening with Richters

like a weakened neutron egg

its fissioning petrol mirages like spirals of irregular hunting geese

flying through flames of ulcerated smoke & gargantua

hissing a blank imperial greenness

rising above dense jetties of cobras

the shocking demise of the sea

the unlivingness of its winds

scorched by irradiations of shaking brine incisions

the burning gulfs of sun with a glint of explosive Mandean utopias*

shocks against Old Testament linear prophetics

of Jeremiah

or Ezekiel

or the bony frozen finger shaking stunted alchemical missives

from a moon burned Judea

no more than a mechanically burning moat focused on smoky

spellbinder’s disruptives

where the motion of the soul is delayed

reduced to flattened agnostic secular smoke

to a terrestrial rage which eliminates its sensuous heavenly fires

its stunning unreplicated angers

its sudden selenium spirals

its fire which staggers across the pseudo-faultlines of pre-replicated judgement

its flirtation with spirits of enriched Draconian plankton

so that the soul with its amber of flashing microbe drachmas

with its wounded tourmaline divisibilities

flaming within a light of smeared tornado weathers

within a shower of black fish scales & spleen

is entombed

within a blank thirstless psycho-motion

falling from a furnace of stars

which both flares up and freezes

which inculcates a flawed microbial botany

as in hypnotic grammatical emulsions

within a hollowed elliptical opening where we witness old

Egyptian surgeries

where the dead magically rise up from mazes

& stare in a language of scorching totemic anomaly

spawned in heretical miniature

their phantoms

seeping from quadrilateral sutures

from brief

violent

renunciatory squalls

uprooted

armed with the weaponry of ghouls

& broken birch tree lizards

seasoned by the light of psychotropic angles

blazing in the middle of a green Venusian interior God

singing

as if

in the fumaroles of anguish

with an inclement bleeding

with a littered corona

of unstable altimeter reverses

Notes:

*Mandean utopias: “Every being in the physical universe has its counterpart in the heavenly Earth of Mshunia Kusta, inhabited by the descendants of a mystical Adam and Eve.”

Source: The Stratospheric Canticles (Pantograph Press, 1995)