Judas Dangled

Judas dangled from his root

blood distending from his mouth

and pondered the complexities of fate -

Man dying for god and god dying for man

Immortal blood coursing in mortal veins

our every action is cursed -

The marble domes we erect for the dead

act as incubi for the coming birth -

The meaning is obscured because

The meaning must be obscured.

The final fundament of reality

cannot be preserved in a solution of formaldehyde.

The mind strays beyond the array of reality

and retrieves visions that manifest in waking life -

the base of sorcery

and poetry

and science

are one

The wand wiggles in desperate anticipation

of uncouth minds and froggish throats

to voice the crack in deception

until their gullets are ceremonially slit -

sacrifices to false order

garbed in glistening samite -

O you prophets and puppets

of old

come out from your vestibules

and twitch in the eternal dance

weave in my glands a song of stars

and transport flesh beyond flesh

to return with the flush of Faery.


Copyright Scott J. Couturier 2014