Visionary excess uprose in the stolen tides Crystalline, perduring, vetted in the instant Golden hymns pouring requisite challenge bled Telling spoken thunders of obliterate night, discasing 5 Napalm essences confined respiring within. Amontillado longing has layered in dote snow This solitude's long cacodemon alone, So long alone! coffined is the resplendent dare Resolving dawn had etched heroic in infant light, 10 Holy illume robing hope's winking oval. Singletree astra vent the penetrate sigh In crescent exhilarations unbounding might And overarch in reck disaster's devoutest crash, Asymptote stars purloining their spirit's ash 15 To deadlight infinities lapsing black Witholding the shocked taste of vestral tongues Amending heaven in rapturous recurr. Act again the vibrant chroma of a soul Rendered restless vexillum in forever frission 20 Touching eternity as you touch a tear! Availing tenderness, who propels the afferent aubaude Sympathetic skies flicker dark to listen on And dawn-starred morning's stir lessened to quiescence is Chime of me what your lustrous substance says, 25 A reborn sounding out what nature offers hollow--- The bell-heart victory whipping blazing wings! Consuming the specter revelation suspiring still Hidden in sacred songs' reforming breath Hand-made to dissipate at the spirit's reveille--- 30 The spiring call trafficking miracle from will, O oblate rose enfolding the casual fires That I tender, scansorial scapegrace Deigning imagination's dream of love to earth, Floating bridal above the violet sacgreal flood 35 I, mimic bittern eclipsing space, become A noble spirit beheld in the overflowing air Time's soilent chanson never can erase. Vibrato folly windlassed to a heart Too old for aching, newborn in blisses! 40 Better raving death's whitened pestilence inhale Fretted with the russet dew of morn, than be Of all this molting richness reft. Vitiate existence sheds its rude root Commanding mink appellations of divinity 45 To squander undying on the breath of earth, Scintillate acres condensed in the Brightened loop of a man's brave saying--- Causeless caduceus fires risible ever In the roadhouse roar of torrid exhalations. 50 Chase perron the persiflage ecstacy From the bone fortitude billowing birth Into the absent garden, willowy terrae, Thronged among corolla weeps of lilies And foxgloves cascadent as the waterfall 55 Where restful banks of slant rhododendrons shade Hydra eyes of opium, corposant disperse, Inherit coronas auroraed from the misted moon, In cirrous lacramata uncurl each timid lid Chastizing disaster in the espousing skin 60 While rosetted haloes about the argent body break Roulade glories gospelling the spine until Like sultry angels hastening paradise casts down We burst cinquefoil in the cispidane kingdom Rivering of ourselves the immaculate substance, 65 Grace-abiding in the tinct rove of memory. Devouring gilt whitens in the rimed eye, A devotional hauteur that cannot avoid Sharpened joys siliquose breaths elude, Immersing salt ninevahs-- rapt heavens 70 Blowing from our mouths! Sidereal child Withy-spirited in the wristing beam Withstand alive the thunderpeal's throatlatch Remaining recherche in the light you weave. Torch-lit liberty laughs in the willing flaunt 75 Of glistered death, sundering pulpit--- Elixive veins inventing the baptismal wells Sunning solitude pulses glowpoint to look upon As if tissued insistences of a gossamer world Sinistral failed, twisting the penchant veil 80 That clouds our doings to pinched nothingness. Pursue the fled ice steps of what Has never left, inveterate stitch staith, Lipping the vireo's cordial incantations, Never stale, deep in intricate night's exult, 85 Upwelling the radiant lashes once again, Stammel descantings rosined choicest coral Never breaching the sacred tympan must, and be What shadows of summer skies in hymned immensity Half guess the golden purpose of the inspiring sun; 90 Become what the staring eagle cannot see Although he stare revolving fires to the whitecomb sea Or sphinxlike out-wait time's inseamed mystery.
From the collection "Ghosts and Princes"
Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]
More information available on gregglory.com.