17.2.22

THE MERCY SEAT



deep inside the scarred heart a viper
    strikes from where the wooly mammoths 
of memory nest in turbulent germination 
  to reach a paroxysm of equilibrium 

the whipping star's fulcrum 
   opens its incandescent kernel 
  to set alight the pilot furnace 
   deep within our abominable dream

while nothing remains as it's seen
  even as the chimera stares back at us
 from the ubiquitous mirror spanning 
the works from vitreous matter to every pupil

  awake in the maelstrom of this sanctuary 
where our mirror neurons collide 
  across the habitat of the vacuum 
under the hypnotic pedipalps  

 the spinnerets of reverie have woven
    splicing together the panopticon
 of our daily ordinary weather 
   stitched in tandem by lightning storms

so lower your eyelids and rest
  while you still can since after that
this gift we have been granted will 
  be replaced by the incessant tempest
    


 
  

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