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Baker's Dozen


Will Alexander

 
   

from CONCERNING THE HEMBANE BIRD



...certainly
not flight as circular enfeeblement
as deleterious enclosure
but as sunquakes
as biological abstentia
with strange hormonal phosphenes
bêreft of pharmaceutical depravity 

neither submission nor error
nor that which ignites
a mirror within a starving python's water 

one could call this moisture
ashen reptile meridians
condensed by seeming fractious defeat 

it amounts to torment in hypnopompic warrens in an ungainful braille sullied with hesitation like 
balletic nullification related to subconscious inklings which periodically rise in the partial reunion of 
sleepless monkeys 

innocuous halflings which vanish
as the Sun explodes inside itself provoking caustic vertigo in the realm so that general fauna is 
constrained in stony unhealable quanta 

so the pythons mentioned
the lorikeets
the squid
the micro-foundations which culminate in krill blighted scarred with retrogression 

this silent in-sonorous struggle
full of sodium unleashing its ratios by fatigue its dioxins being harbored inside a blasphemous testing 
ground the flesh of world fauna fiendish with disruption 

land being no more than smoke
or perhaps
a fissure of diamonds cracking under ill-gotten methane 

I feel in this instant
a grim Venusian solar cascade
like a cataract of flashes
being mountainous ozone crumbling irregularly scanned by explosive albedos by glints which 
triangulate which expand & contract by a numerical neutron table by elusive concentrations of heat 

my measurements being taken in a spell-binding valley in a broken ozone valley where true in-
pollination proliferates 

this is why I've returned from the dead as the great poltergeist who wanders who darts through 
salted manganese ruins giving document to the inclement 

this is why I land on spotted neutron logs on defective bullocks & grass to test the arcane leaning of 
the world its projection its exhibit through disrupted stomas 

so through spillage
through countless myrioramas
I have come to a sorcerous foretelling through the eyes of a sickened fetus through the heat which 
rises from tainted mustang skin

I witness
aloof collusional embryonics
where all birth is stained
all becoming corrupted
on the visible plane
within its co-agitated penumbra
evolved through anatomical struggle through sidereal devolvement through an unseasoned forte 
neutered which eclipses itself through cause & counter-cause through movement which endures 
through in-felicitous movement less & less majestic as it focuses its breath on the molecules of the 
sapiens sapiens 

& this is not to say
that the sapiens sapiens have no right have no display as to variety or significance 

no

I do not degrade my human utterance
as a sudden neural lessening 

yet
my present shape of voice
is magically tangled with human holocaust threading nullification being its vatic as its molecules 
transmute & I become the bird from a magical under-vapor moving a jeopardous flask teleporting 
my rays to Swedish lakes to algal congestion in Venice lagoons partaking of crucial ozone scintilla so 
as to desperately re-surge the ozone across an operant duration
3 billion years in the making 

not that I am suspicious of new waking but I know my power of impact its garrulous outer task in a 
kingdom now sweltering with deformity 

my voice
not simply a gloomy didactic
spawned in dark medicinal poisons
but a proto-supernal complexity analogous in endeavor to Moorish Cordova with it intensive 
madrasas its botany its medicine its velocity of percipience 

in relation to the above intensity
I can be call an Iberian indigo bird
a mysterious indigo sigil
focused upon primeval number
upon dark tarantula grasses
unleashing a metropolis of galaxies
as crucibles of transparency 

I flit to the binary Hadar
condensed in Iberia
which projects 'etheric shift' 
allowing being to vary its dimensional forms

I as bird
of numerous dimensional shifts
telepathically whirring
as power through alchemical abstentia being an infiltration of specters simultaneous across differing 
forms of the globe voracious in Sri Lankan mangrove swamps dispersing microscopic hells in the 
Naktong River disrupting carbonized waste from the Rio de la Plata 

perhaps
while fluttering across ravines of hell motions from Andromeda will call to me as an ancient 
miraculous raptor dialectically chronicled as blazeless wavering on Earth juggling death as amorphic 
delay my wings encoded with prayer amidst a battle kaleidoscopic with the gravid then suddenly re-
existing in the Hercules Cluster aligning my light with the beyond...