Christine Stewart / David Dowker

VIRTUALIS

Patience arrays its strategies. The blue sky faience 
and the startling flows. Tincture of days passing. 
Rapture of plant consciousness, suppliant plaintive 
refrain. Sidereal inertia of the earth return posture 
and the vibratory distances between dreams.

This time the vertigo is temporary. It effects a textuality 
of sex. Brazen conjure. The medium is palladium 
and hypostasizes. Its valence sighs 
and lies upon the periodic table, maybe 
empty rumours and pyrite.

From the premonitory depths of the firing. A beam 
of gauzes hovers, pale northern glaze veils. The surface 
of the lake of Her serene gleams.

Crystals, larvae, buds...gemmules. Organiforms 
with felt hats and vivid fringes, fungus tumuli. 
Colonies of bioluminescent letterswarm, sensate 
substrate. Reticulum of Her thought-fur murmurs. 
(Something about this urn of a world.) Quivering 
telepresence within the furniture. These retinals 
and nerve-wing things fluttering about the telling.