Saturday, 21 June 2014

Morning Masks - David Stone/Cheryl Penn


Morning Masks

I spoke
again
against
the back sun
Mandelstam said black sun
arranged in discourse
sudden
ly a strange odor
the smell of a hotdog
sauerkraut
I knew it once
suddenly an estate
strained
bought back
marked
by cold storage,
theatre waves,
a confession.

hope against hope
hope abandoned
thwarted time calculus tessellation
inward circumvention
velvet rising curtains -
dream frame-FREEZE
The Day Begins.

The Cape of Good Hope,the canoe tail,the horseshoe crab
tales
talons
the caelocanthic raids
dismissals
forged
in
the
frozen
frigate
the frigid want.

hands clasped
need
un-masked
motionless cold
even the glowworm
died.
Detour:
a dream shard
spiked my drink
backwards.


The morning.
the chill.
a forest.
how tall is this tree?
miles?
the wood?
the age of the tree
the sights.
signals.
in front
of
some
other
water.

Galileo aimed his gyroscope -
Methuselah longaeva 
in his sights.

heartbeat?

murmur?

Ripples
beneath the other water
Swan maidens swim.

dropping an object a sphere from a tower a clock tower a subatomic rifle disdain for science among the holy seers transplanting errors
the astronomics gape ages. the folly folds.
iron tongs
for repentence
repetition
gales
soars
wiccan
sovereign
found
inherited.

disdain refrain
Inherited Folly
don’t breathe too deeply
don’t drop too swiftly
parting air
will
open gates
and the flood
will drown the world
Daedalus, caught in a-maze
Of their own making.

the float.
some kind of river?
a thought of a dream.
Karma?
time'
s
ex
haust
ive
thirst.
 daedalusian thought
a photon
's
100,000
year journey
through
miles
of infernal heat
to
reach
pure
space.

pure space?
close your eyes
my child,
hide beneath my skirt.
Perhaps
if
we Do Not Look,
Death
will
pass us by -
Cosmic Collateral Collide
A Dark Age Looms.

pure space-Bishop Berkeley closed his eyes and the universe disappeared. the closet of death.
do you have skeletons there? only on Halloween. a mere suggestion.

Skeletons suggest
Expanding transitions to
Greater causality
than we perceive.

skeleton skillets. diner platters. vices. criminal contests. in courtrooms. suggest serials. pieces. of exhaust. to eat. Banquo said. stay at home tonight that would be mostly a safe bet.


I dreamt
Casper Friedrich’s exhaustion
and mine.
dead-pan accomplice (his)
Banquo said
dream houses are courtrooms
predetermined fate
wandering in fog
do you believe in
predestination
as a safe bet
he asked?
So Romantic.


Pascal;the probability of grace. the quantum mechanics of salvation. the escalation clause. the staircase of oblivion.
the doubt of language.
ages.
Agamemnon.
is
beset
with
retirement
retention
advice
from
the font
of crisp
nebulae.

Blaise’s nature
abhorred  triangular vacuums
nothing in relation to infinity -
Jacqueline met Jasmine
a nebulas end.
Agamemnon’s retirement trouble
expedited
currency
acquisitions
golden Mourning Mask.


the point.
gorged.
labor.
fed
triangular
studies
paths
migrated
from hell
said hello
to the devil
at trial
(at Nuremberg?)
pieces of hate mail
found
out
somewhere
in the North Sea.

cannot breathe
through
fear
hate
trials
triangular paths
decimated land(e)scape
wind
freezing cold boiling suns
heliocentric compass
are we Somewhere
else


Yet?

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