Hymn for the Servant Double
1
KA.
Mirror
Invisible if seen
On edge.
Demon gate
Inserted
In a mud ball. Your
2
Feathers
Fit for final
Gestures. Rise
3
After polite
Conversation
Hammer-wise. Rise.
I send you
4
Up there. Where?
Next to a
Pewter plate. Fake
5
Sweets. Cup
of crumbly
6
Dust. KA
Riding
A conveyor belt of
Tongues. Rising
7
Up. Becomes
A mincing Crab.
A furbelow. A quap. Or
8
Blown feathers.
Missing an appointment.
Trapped in a tun.
9
Preening. A Less-Than.
Precisely in moonlight.
Uneaten mango. More-than.
Presenting, a sphere of
Gnats tapping tangos
Near a sun-warmed tomato.
10
KA. & blackness
Planned
To do a simple task.
Must make do
In a momentary lag
Without the Pneuma.
11
Never set the table
for a sewn shut mouth
12
But assume that you're
A Tripod. Or wear
A moth hat of double
Tele-fronds.
13
& A small
Rocket
Explodes
Above an Eye
Outlined in mascara
Shattering
The Holy Throat,
14
Telling no-one
Where I lie.
Wood conquers.
Cough
That way. Cough if you can.
Step windily
If they trap
Your tattoo
In 1000 bronze mirrors,
Breast it
In a crown of terra cotta. Folded
15
Wren.
Trap smoke
In a coptic
Jar. Or secretly say
Knyx, Zoe, Shem,
Uh. Even a grain
Of spaghetti
Stains a codex
On the Q.T. &
16
Wheat gnawed
To mucilage by
Happy rats loaded
On a flywheel
& Spun beyond density
Makes a masterpiece
For goats that fear
A, E, I, O, U,
17
Struck upon milky stone
P.M. 10/6/97.
& loop Return
The Servant Double.
Knock a table
& Re/
turn.
To stony KA.
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