Will Alexander

THE IRIDESCENT ENIGMA

from ABOVE THE HUMAN NERVE DOMAIN

"In this smokeless harrier desolation 
I have surmounted inscrutable errata 
under two electric polar moons 
shifting between the colours of slate-blue & magenta

I 
the Andean Hill Star 
hovering in these Martian x-ray wastes 
the iridescent enigma 
my centripetal wings 
beating against the soul of cartographical surcease 
with its enervated distension 
with its migrating sun loss

the triple atmosphere corroded 
by tense elliptical static 
by the drainage from barbarous glacial nerves 
so that the strange contentions of Phobos 
make the human staggering genetic 
less & less 
a catalog of spectrums 
less & less a factor 
where ciphers are beheaded

humankind 
now tending to gaze from a portico of gangrene 
from model as nervous collective

so I am alone 
having absorbed isolation 
having absorbed the general colouration of imbalance

isolated by planet 
from Augastes lumachellus 
from Lophornis magnifica 
in an alien enigma 
alone

I have left the earth & its species 
incapable of self-rescue 
of the dazzling vapour which transmutes 
which allows the watery chemicals to rise 
& take on the wisdom of vertical misnomer 
of the acid which would blend 
with the aerial oxide waters 
with the prepotent force of natural helium speech

which implodes 
which transcends present character 
constricted as it is by anorexia & debris

its retention corrosively split 
into an oblong grain which ceases 
like a bleak 'Siberian witch' in tragic forms of respiration

its sodium 
kindled by fractions which torment 
which hounds the asperation 
as to apogee 
as to consuming volation

so I as hummingbird 
as expanded broach points in the blood 
seeking elongation & task 
which conflagrates inertia

again 
the task 
so that illuminates snake through the cells 
no longer palpable as visual largesse 
as silken sanguinary spectrums 
to be bled 
& negatively fed to half-learned upheavals

I 
who now live 
above the liminal burst 
which exists 
between that which flies 
& that which stays sullied

no 
I am not marooned on ophthalmic plateaus 
cartographically contained 
as though Peru were the only distance 
the only memorial diamond to be breathed 
to be absorbed as exclusive monomial clarity

so the barrenness 
the solemn gamma-ray gradations 
the probing snows on Olympus Mons 
with its scattered rays 
with its geometric diamonds 
congealed in the orbit 
of darkened sphinxian diameter

which gives me claim 
to magical fluxation & mist 
so that my 5 former bodies of example 
gives to my aura 
a fabled discipline & a marker 
& a glance which traces odour 
according to a hieroglyphic substance 
capable of plentitudes & aggressions 
capable of neurological dis-affirmatives

here I am 
woven by gravitational nobility 
yet of free & cold space 
known throughout the yellowed Saturnian inveiglements 
or across the Uranian methane formations 
or in the Oort configuration 
where a basic elevation is opened 
where pre-turpentine milling 
of the living & the living dead 
is both broadened & destroyed 
so that the atmosphere 
an earthly debility of garrisons 
becomes 
a cancelled habitat for being

yes 
for dense & offensive procurement 
so that 
the holocaust of tribes 
the central extermination of salt 
is no longer that which will flower 
in a post-racial Kemet 
being 
the aboriginal darkness which pre-exists time

again 
the invisible fever 
which opens in the being 
a random helium morale 
a pitch of nigredo 
of a cinder inside a cinder 
which post-exists the inverse 
called by gross existence 
a pre-directional Eden

so one can never explain 
the pure charisma of my zodiac 
the instant bell of my zodiac 
under the Christian law of simple post-mortem carnage

never a blame 
cast by twists & thickets 
de-invaded 
& then annulled 
by natural solar crystallization 
known to varied shifts 
& different anatomies of creation

here I am 
graspless 
a Kemetic eclipse incantation 
which overcomes the vile 
by he 
who migrates from nectar 
who unmingles barley 
by he who detracts weight"

* Andean Hill Star - Largest hummingbird in the world.
Lives in Peru. It is 8.5 inches long.

* Augastes lumachellus and Lophornis magnifica -
Hummingbirds of Brazil.

* Olympus Mons - Highest peak in the solar system.
Located on Mars, it is three times the height of Mount
Everest, with a base three hundred miles across.

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