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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