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Sliding Down Void Mountain.

"Herbarium

Truly no flower yet withers in your hand'
—Hart Crane, “To Emily Dickinson”

Quite the reverse — not Delphic, vatic;
palindromes' dreams onehow merge in statics.
Rivulets dream up their aqueducts; domes
ricochet (re-)currencies of soporifics
         a dram of henbane, a drachma’s mandrake

off words not Delphic, though wombed, vatic
that whisper impregnable yells to rhizomes.
         chimaeras on sweven draughts here
Pressed into something nyctinastic,

statics immerge how one dreams palindromes
of pained dates; details slip off the bedside comb.
Aqua vitae – aqua ardens wick

up through a mise en abyme vatic
enough to dream the dream that sleeps off Lethe —
skiagraphy that chalks its dark to trick:
         Still Life with a Coaly Pasithea on a Passing Immortel, 2002

A palindromic dream to merge in statics —
this — mounts up itself on sulcal catacombs
latent of sound how the nyctipelagic,
         credo quia absurdum est

long-lost, breathe (no, there is no Prophecy,
just verses). Fascicled into a poem,
         ACT VI., B. SCENE: REDIVIVUS
a dream slips death back, like a mad palindromist."

--Athena Melliar via @poochigian

· Elude ·.

"It is of grave import that we limn and grasp our vision of genuine collectivity and plenitude:acquit ourselves from promulgation of incessant fear and aimless reactivity, walk away from the noose of hierocracy, voyeurism and distanced complicity; that we let each other, art, poetry and architecture prevail upon us, our innards be grabbed by mother earth to cultivate the breadth of our embodied awareness to discover and consummate reverberant limits of maturity, rather than consent to the proliferating jejune and amniotic, utilizing the full spectrum of affordances in the structure of our light, our sensualia and circumambience; people… expanding limits of their personal genius and governance." --Lissa Wolsak

"The new Oxfam report, Climate Equality, shows that in 2019, the super-rich 1% were responsible for the same carbon pollution as the poorest two thirds of humanity - 5 billion people." (via @gretathunberg)