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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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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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HALLAJ & THE EMPTY THRONE
Al-Hallaj scaled Mount Qaf, the highest of mountains, even until his head peeked through the clouds, and then he gained a caught the tail of a passing comet that carried him into the heavens. Then he leapt onto the lowest of the stars, and climbed his way up through the seven heavens, until he arrived…