Gargantuan Origination: Inscription for the Collages of Dean Smith
Sandstone
carved by elements prone to the Tethys Sea
as they carved exploded & asphyxiated
alive with water that both burned & etched
as primordium
that exploded
that dictated itself
via primordial grammes
to what seems via delimited view
Luciferean & unruly
carving minerals & minerals of rock as hallucinated grammar via a mysteriously distant sea
not via its form that presently exists but of record as its own eruption
its velocity carving primordial mineral fire
that oxygenates as propulsion enriching its own anterior element not as judgmental raiment or as legible sketching
but explosion sans human origination
sans seeming civilized protraction not as needle that sculpts according to precise human episode but as anterior trance projected
before its power was projected
but explosive
elemental
predating the minerals of sharks anterior to their own explosion as waste
thus
rocks are carved by the dialectics of salt
flowing as power
that mimics the mystical
thus water
accrues as the mystical
carving spontaneous hieroglyphics not as burdensome sand
but power that engulfs & self-strategizes itself
as it implies other maelstroms
that pre-date themselves
that burn beyond local stellar orientation
knowing in themselves markings that cascade from anterior galactic spells sans illusion that grips fixation
& this grammatical water
not prelude to something other than itself
yet always implying subsequent impalpability
not unlike the stirring of galaxies that loop via gargantuan origination
Notes:
From Divine Blue Light, © 2022 by Will Alexander. Reprinted with permission of City Lights Publishers, citylights.com. For more information about Divine Blue Light, visit here
This poem is part of the portfolio “Will Alexander: Poet-as-Spectrometer” from the November 2022 issue. Audio version performed by the author.
Source: Poetry (November 2022)