“Above the abyss everything / is not what you thought it was, someone / else taught less than this education / was worth, in the end, wanting more…”

“Woes upon the godless / who flee the darkness to / seek the light, not to see / it but be seen by it, / a scattering of seed…”

“Shut the sky, that no rain may / fall during the days of my / prophesying, striking as / I am your mind with my wand / that flowers…”

“A spider on the skin of a / drum, spinning into the fabric of a / dream iridescent obscenities, choreography of ritual which / makes this dance seem…”

“The heaviest burden is lifting / the heart of another, knowing in / secret that every saint is just / a dead magician, swift mischievous / enactor of heaven’s…”