Our
proclamations of the apocalypse
now are as premature as they are perpetual. The postponement of fixating evil in
ultimate judgment lessens our capacity to live reconciled. And so, we chronically suffer
revelations of the age to come, of the years of our lords, and with them their
concomitant unfulfilled desires for the cessation of our unchecked and unabated
atrocities. We build in isolation
the end, construct each moment the finality, take shelter in the impending
desolation of ourselves. Of our
own accord, we turn in adoration to any other, or the next, not here, not here,
but now.
And a mighty
angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying,
Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down,and shall be
found no more at all.
Rev 18:21
lead, powder, hope
seed, desire, will
meal, marrow, snuff
fraternizing grist
Fee, Fie, Fo,
Fum
Cold rolled,
Spit turned,
Hermeneutically sealed,
Dumb
And the voice of
harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsmen, of
whatsoever craft he be, shall be found no more at all in thee;
and the sound of a millstone shall be
heard no more at all in thee;
Rev 18:22
And I saw as it
were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his
image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the
sea of glass, having the harps of God.
Rev 15:2
Heavy as limbs ascending
Twice distinguished from stone
Embracing the dark unending
Untrodden beneath the known
Our
proclamations of the apocalypse now are as premature as they are perpetual. The postponement of fixating evil in
ultimate judgment lessens our capacity to live reconciled. And so, we chronically suffer
revelations of the age to come, of the years of our lords, and with them their
concomitant unfulfilled desires for the cessation of our unchecked and unabated
atrocities. We build in isolation
the end, construct each moment the finality, take shelter in the impending
desolation of ourselves. Of our
own accord, we turn in adoration to any other, or the next, not here, not here,
but now.
And a mighty
angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying,
Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down,and shall be
found no more at all.
Rev 18:21
lead, powder, hope
seed, desire, will
meal, marrow, snuff
fraternizing grist
Fee, Fie, Fo,
Fum
Cold rolled,
Spit turned,
Hermeneutically sealed,
Dumb
And the voice of
harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsmen, of
whatsoever craft he be, shall be found no more at all in thee;
and the sound of a millstone shall be
heard no more at all in thee;
Rev 18:22
And I saw as it
were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his
image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the
sea of glass, having the harps of God.
Rev 15:2
Heavy as limbs acsending
Twice distinquished from stone
Embracing the dark unending
Untrodden beneath the known
Chapter 22, Verse 17:
And let him that is athirst come.
Chapter 20, Verse 3:
And cast him into the bottomless pit,
Chapter 18, Verse 6:
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she
hath filled fill to her double.
Chapter 18, Verse 7:
How much she hath glorified herself, and deliciously, so much
torment and sorrow give her: for she
saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow,
and shall see no sorrow.
Chapter 14, Verse 19:
And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the
vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Chapter 14, Verse 20:
And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out
of the winepress, even unto the horse
bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. (220 yards or 1/8 mile)
And
Death Shall Flee From Them responds to Chapter 16, Verse 10: and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they
gnawed their tongues for pain. This
sculpture consists of a large fallen chandelier, blackened with soot, with
candles extinguished by impaled tongues.
My brother, Song, died here of love.
His body left him long and cruelly.
My father, History, followed closely of compassion.
But a moment more, for, timing was everything.
I return, in my brother's garb, sans voce.
I remain, without hour, or memory.
Gravity only, directions, mucus and tears.
PURE BROOD
acidic
vapors stain
flame and frost claim
billiard balls blame
Chapter 19, verse 17:
And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice,
saying to all the fowls that fly in the
midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves
together unto the supper of the great God;
Chapter 19, verse 18:
That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and
the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of
horses, and of them that sit on them, and
the flesh of all men, both free
and bond, both small and great.
Chapter 14, verse 1:
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount S•«ΠΌn, and with him an hundred
and forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
Chapter 14, verse 3:
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before
the four beasts, and the elders: and no
man could learn that song but the hundred
and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
I read in your shakey stance, fear and frustration filling a former frame, mistake terminal distanced cries
over shedded sons as endless clatter to
restow. I shun calls for untamed generations to unite as forecasts unseated and
ascribe the perpetual ringing in my ears
as for someone else's stone.