Borealis
On the roofs of the city of the future
Newton’s soul makes dry ice
in a bronze crucible of time.
In its latrines the calligraphy
of Shakespeare’s brain
is studied by Africans of the mind
who pick up heavenly English poets
for purposes of translation.
A Swedish princess exists to perfect
the yoga of love
and tirelessly performs
for any chance passer-by
dance-routines in which the self is won
to forgetfulness of wives.
At noon on Lenin’s birthday
the peasants drop their ploughshares
for cocktails in the penthouse of the moon
— an angel beats their shares back into swords
that lie ankle-deep in thought-frost.
Christ is crucified at Christmas
and the blood of its dawn
perpetuates
the icy noon of the body’s emancipation,
its seizure a banner on which is read,
Decay is the disbelief of things.
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