Anterior Cartography
Certain wavelengths appear
not as beatific summation
but as feral anterior cartography where terror attempts to invade
our interior translucency
translucence being magical
being evolutionary lightning
being a curious spinning of drought & transparency
that rises up from opposites
so incapability seemingly transpires where maimed grasses contort
as untreated saliva
the latter being of spiraling truncation
of oblique & dazzling darkness
possessing epileptic strength that is awkward & improvident
as if the Sun had erupted & gone ill
according to higher rotational degree
I am able to view this first spoiled leakage
from clarified detritus
from splintered metrics & sand
so how does seeming drought silently erupt & explore itself?
perhaps as a mis-focused cataract filled with dimming ocean parts
with nervous topiary eels
akin to negated asparagus rooting
thus
result as botched uranium entanglement
as flummoxed escalation
with general visage of characterological explanation creating
animated rifts along the equator of the Nile
under this condition can we say that the moon blazes from a cold
& rigorous coffin
from a despicable but dis-claiming that illuminates refractive
properties from hell?
perhaps I remain an in-human courier from Draco
from in-celibate wastes
where proto-carrion feed
via unveiled obscurity that seems to not exist
where a phylum of tar is struck by un-impeachable lightning
that irrevocably pre-exists & becomes green and green-black
this being chemistry
that has extolled itself on a galleon of waters
guided by pre-imagined birds
by a syllabus prior to a cartography of rainbows
so how does this quell evil attacking organic wetlands?
one must persist in altering one’s view
as sub-atomic mimic
allowing to view the gist
that is European capital
with its dark vehicular thirst
with its blinded mechanical pieces tragically testing measurement
it remains none other than a serpent of cataracts
of doomed & fore-shortened brain stems
allowing one to see
fiendish ghosts
riled anathema ponies
that rotate as notation according to evil as famished consequence
according to stain as it secretes as a kind of negligible quanta
according to Dark sub-quanta & its variants
this is where ignition rivals itself
by fostering inclemency as blackness
as thriving tendency that graces collective identity with jaundiced
ability
to ruin
to cast about as fate
conjoined to the skeletal negation of itself
& we know this level of option to be carnivorous
to be Salamandrine & opaque
akin to body according to brutish seizure
seemingly porous to malevolent instigation
because such culture remains sordid
not unlike congested flocks of vapour
cast in historical daylight
thus
natural cycles swarmed by exhaustion
via heretical investigation as trans-suggestive forces
because the zodiac has been transmuted
not vanquished & squandered away on a sub-liminal isle
where the mind can never explore itself or bear power according
to medicinal enrapturement
according to medicinal listening as exposure
hence
suppression has cast its lot upon our neurological realm
& so it appears that the hieratic has tilted allowing other
conditions to combine
& they inscrutably rise above telepathic claustrophobia
as shifts in one’s signaling that transpire & re-combine
according to the deftness of dice & anathema
as protected combinatorial combustion
so that perhaps an Oryx speeding through a wetland will furtively
amaze itself
via its chronically imposed cellular limit weaving in & out of itself
so that it alchemically transmutes eternity
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Credit: “Anterior Cartography” from Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane). Copyright © 2022 by Will Alexander. Reprinted with the permission of City Lights Books. You may acquire a copy from the press by clicking here.