XI. La lucarne du lion

    

XI. La lucarne du lion

Toggling between horizontal and overhead views, she discovers a way to vary the angle in between, so that like an archaeologist at dawn she can now see this desert landscape at a very shallow raking angle, allowing her to pick up relief features that would otherwise be invisible. These prove to be fertile sources of the links she needs to be clicking on. Soon she finds herself getting crossfaded to relay stations, oases, very rarely a traveler coming the other way, back from whatever’s out head, with very little to tell beyond cryptic allusions to some icy uncanalized river on whose far bank lies a city built of a rare impregnable metal, gray and gleaming in self-contained mystery, entered only after lengthy exchanges of signs and countersigns…  —Bleeding Edge (September 17, 2013)

Since moving an hour from Manhattan, from the sear of man-made fibers, our painted orchard is a reef
Fringed with foam; only its warm-up having taken long—Alias spoon-maker, or Loeffler, keen-sighted
Through a Gordian cipher of windows, dossiers of fraud, with guardian lions signifying fire
At Persepolis (330 B.C.E), where an upturned krater incited a conflagration to conceal its exhausted
Coffers—Just before the quarterly earnings reports of the WTC tenants sitting on talents greater
Than our measure of Alexander the Great—If not callousness for those torting downwind of the columns

With carbon nanotubules in their lungs, then the next day draping of their vicious flags; those solidarity never succeeds in apprehending, out of reach, in the fifth column—
To derive another Cold War term, Ground Zero, as if it were commensurable to the atomic bomb test sites, as featureless cruise routes punctuated by sodium cyanide shocks on the left behind reefs
Stocking the aquarium outside one of most highly lauded obstetric practices—DeepArcher’s temptations set aside more rest; at least, mindless broadcasts, all the greater
Than schlepping grounds from Starbucks for a rooftop garden, now pooling on the floor of the cab, for furthering a culture of concern—Barring, once and for all, hereditary short-sightedness,
For the lack of sunlight—Olympias receives a vision from the cult center of Thoth, Hermopolis, from Nectanebo II, whose postponement of the black siltstone obelisks brought the Archaemenid Empire, firing
Past the urban centers of Syria, to his door, or until the 332 B.C.E. homecoming of the snake conceived by the consort of Philip of Macedon October 355 B.C.E., to be born that July, which insinuates up the medial malleolus as uterine contractions—Exhausting

An overhead view of the Piraeus diner’s drop ceiling tiles in green ocher and terracotta mold leaves an opening for Clokey productions red and green checkered floor filleting clay, where walking is as gravity impervious and otherwise exhausting
As carpentry joins, with oblique slabs of Gumby and Pokey trailing the silver, vernix-on-soapstone of the Moon Boggles (1967) as the twins—By the Pre-conquest Itzamná (D) and Ixchel (O), the lizard king and red-prefixed jaguar consort, who discharges columnar
Epithelia reinforcing treacherously odorous glands of panic—Belying an even more lurid basement membrane of unicode into a body of water, whose coasts would advise the further disconnected mainland for firing,
Where the immigrants end—Henry Hudson’s hull (1609) before it became a Coney Island attraction, and the Half Moon Hotel—What of the 330 million Vedic gods, but human life conferring a preference for fragments against our working ends of the reef
Knot against an ever-present disassembly into grief knot, what knot, whatnot, grass or reeving-line bends—Deflecting all the greater
Carbon-fiber shafts of arrows we refuse in an otherwise liberal procurement of learning utensils that the forthcoming bottom line for preparations is a SAT score of 2400—Self-betrayal, of not clouding their sights

Of the unchanging world, and suppressing rebellion from first outbursts in the grocery aisles—Sighting
Jean Lindenmann’s write-up in the Times (22 January 2015); more rapidly than is recovered from prior interest pyramids—Interferons having revived some aroma on the back of the cortical-rimed eye of Horus fused with a sillage of lion and unicorn mille-fleurs and lunes unshredded through this building’s exhaust
Fans—Post-awareness of a minor, well-meaning clash at breakfast; of no appetite, as a passing blip of olfaction by interferon-gamma receptor regulation (2013)—Streaming noses, from rhinosinusitis, affecting nearly all in play group, register far greater
Than initial symptoms realize, and amounting to sigilization of a scarlet thread of our inner selves—With hereto inconceivable links to the Book of Thoth stowed allegedly in Alexander's sarcophagus (323 B.C.E); perhaps now recoverable, regardless of the column
Length semantics—Having returned to the 2005 glimpses of Santiago, which meant for us then as the U.S. organized air strikes on La Moneda (11 September 1973), with the blood arriving in the shadow of neural firing—
Outstanding, however dormant, The Alchemist (1988), at the passage of vagrant stars into a grove of date palms pitched from the beloved's well six disks of perfection disallowed until the trip was made beyond the seventh water wheel of Crocodilopolis, then Arsinoe, Medinet El-Fayoum following the reef

Of tributaries of the Nile to up Old Cairo, Babylon (300 C.E.)—Threonine, with two stereocenters, amplifies the activity of whatever enzymatic reef

The residues enjoin in the plans contemplated on a backstroke; looking up into the celluloid sights

Of the basement pool—Crowley and Lady Frieda Harris reconvene at a mutual friend’s address at Hyde Park Crescent for the Thoth deck (1937)—Esther’s banquets with Xerxes I, despoiler of the Athenian Acropolis (20 January 330 B.C.E.)—Lindenmann’s slower, and therefore, karmic condition, of a career of finding the Mx gene; inducible by interferon against viral infections—In the face of put-to-call drugmakers; armed with the Interferome, there is still firing

Behind the whites of their eyes, as ocular herpes (HSV-1); while walking this trivia as one of many disregarded past lives, burns the greater

For being unrealized—From the erupted cold sore, serine/threonine kinase signaling downstream, eddying into latent circularization, up the trigeminal highway to the brain as irritation; finally, exhausting

Amyloid precursor proteins—Sending repeated messages, the conclusion, nothing in this city will ever stand at the same address for even five years—Followed by the need to look to the lighter hash marks of the game, or the 140-character news columns

Or some addling biopic; drawn into the recently described lion tomb funded by gold and silver sources of Kadmos, of the dragon’s teeth, of Mt. Pangaion, and in expansion when Alexander lead a column

Of elephants at Gaugamela (323 B.C.E) into Babylon—According to Arrian (VII.18.1-4), Apollodorus of Amphipolis estimates the death of his returning liege’s second, Hephaestion, from Peithagoras having read from a quivering, gall-streaked liver of a ram—Before the dynamics of curses reach their plenitude, and poised to reef
Black sails from tightening just one line—Flaneurs of the tapestries at Cluny, the same hierophany of the date pits of Tamar, whose palms form the upper layer of oases stilled into a charcoal surface soldering two new moons outlined in silver exhausting
All bounds of the eternal night—We observed they gathered the scent of things with their entire faces—With strike-anywhere matches within sight
Of the Three of Cups (Abundance), of January blooming Hamamelis florets and bent branches for dowsing, and recollected that July before firing
Back into consciousness—The first among anti-diversion patents, of the successor to interferon, by the Republic of Gilead’s hepatitis C cure pending disgorged penitentiaries; to the strata (let it not be said of the human), strangulated by worse scarring than left by gunfire—Greater

Than all our then considered distances, and pieces beneath Solomonic columns—Greater world concerns firing queries, of another cytokine secreted in the French Polynesian reefs conserved in humans for 550 million years—
Malte, writing as the poet reading Baudelaire in Frederiksberg, described the tapestries at Cluny to the sightless, gespenstisch, whose spectral weave we reissue to each other, The Journal of My Other Self  (1910)

Our deepest insight, when arriving across the decks at once exhausted to explain us, prefigures our pennants of the lion, of the Nine of Wands (Strength), and the unicorn, styled as the Six of Disks (Success)—