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GARDEN OF THE DIVINE IMAGINATION
Staggering rows of pomegranate treesDrunk from invasions of bees and windImpregnated worlds, each and every one.Fruit dangles on their branchesBlack and shadowy, each teeming withTen million embryonic planetsEvery one of them spinning, compressed,An assembly of ten million moreWaiting for that inevitable sliceWhen they’ll surge forth to alterSo many foreign soils with their seedInstigating fortuitous terrains…
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ALLAHU CIPHER SONG
To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavensAnd all the beings there are upon the earthLike my arms and each hair and finger on themAnd my two eyes and all the worlds they seeAll they’ve seen wherever my feet have beenEach and all belong to me and I to all of themEvery blessed and profane…
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ASCENT TO OLD SOLOMON
I took a walk up the mountain yesterday To visit Old Solomon in his black cube cabin Hidden under leaves and canopies of sky I was tested on my way by jumping rocks And divebombing horseflies and sunbeam spears Tossed from their source eight minutes ago To catch my vessel right where it would be…
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APOCALYPSO
She wore ninety nine veilsCovering every part of herThe drums began to pulseThe flutes began to flutterThe first veil droppedNinety eight more to goHypnotic hours and epochsWe’ve been lost in our lustIt’s not what we can seeThat draws our eyesBut what we can’tWhile one veil remainedWe could still each imagineOur own private paradiseJust beyond that…
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MAGICAL ARKESTRA COSMOS
The cosmos is the tense silence at the beginning of a Sun Ra concert, like a membrane of darkness, the forces of mayhem building on just the other side of it. A baritone note pulses on the hammond organ, and the knock-knock-knock of the dionysian drum visitors who want to come in and spread a…
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PARADISE
There is adistant land remotebeyond imagination righthere before meplacid and joyfulshrouded only bythe thinnest ofveils three moleculesacross but ittakes about athousand years topierce through eachone of them
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