1. SULTRY AIR

The days lean against one another
And glide slowly into slippers of gathering darkness
Eve walks with velvet tread towards my orchard
Sinks in the tarn within me

A motion in the corner of my eye

Someone's heart beating in time with mine

Your heart glows through your skin
Your heart expands and contracts

Your smile in my hair
Your laughter all in me
You're travelling through my veins

Florid embrace
Strawberry mouth
I'm filled to the edges with you

A motion in the corner of my eye
Someone's heart beating in time with mine


2. UNSUMMONED

Now is the third season
The season I don't long
Cause it is here
And you are gone

You were the Incubus
Who raped my sleeping mind

Awake - Pain was the master
I crawled in a chasm

But now
Unsown seeds germinate
Unplanted trees bear fruits

The spell is broken
Unsummoned reveries gather
Unwinged thoughts fly

Wind rapidly swings its arms
Takes fruits from the trees
And flings them away

But what's ripe falls
Nevertheless
To the ground


3. LIZARD DANCE

Peek through the hole and enjoy the lizard dance
Come see the lizards' dance out of their skin

See them throw their first tails
Watch the hundredth tail
Form behind a purple body

Come see the lizards' hypnotic dance
See them dance out of their skin...
...and slip into the cauldron

"Poor lizards
Swimming naked in icy water
I'll light a fire under you...
...if I can only find other matches..."

"You fool!
You can't cook soup on me

Peek through the hole and enjoy the lizard dance
Come see the lizards' dance out of their skin

I can stand the heat
I'll sprawl in your mouth
I'll curl round your tongue
And I can assure you won't relish me

But...here, have my tail
And now give me my swim mask
I want to explore this kettle!"


4. PANTA REI

The autumn sun is restrained to wither
As the winter assumes with its pale pride

The last of life is smothered
Only the remembrance of a season's departure is left behind
As a ghastly hand sweeps the landscape
The eternal conquering of seasons
And deprivement of beauty and life
The sun is restrained to wither
Only to perish into the twilight of seasons

An eternal eclipse between phases of conquering.


5. GATHER IN ME NO MORE

This penetrating pain arousing from its sleep
This pallid flesh hiding in shades
These hollow orbits watering the ground.

Frantic ghouls
Lurking in my shadow
Reptiles
Crawling under my skin

Temptations
Swansong from the tarn
Cold caresses
Of a quivering shroud
The phasma
Cradling me in its arms
Its wormwood tongue
Rasping my face

Flee from me
Spirits of ferocity
And open the gates
Of this limbo
Come to me
Bringer of joy
And disembody
My pain

Hinder the inflow
Of figments
Let them
Gather in me no more
Stop the bleeding

Heal my wounds
Melt the frost in my veins
Dissolve the sickened-red haze
Round me
And stop the toll of the knell


6. IGNORAMUS

I am the Ignoramus
But he believes
He's concealed
When blindfolded

And he believes
He can read minds
Words written in ink on
Cerebral paper

And he believes
If he becomes learned
He'll die, therefore
He ignores all wisdom

And he believes
Sweet sweet sweetness
Would wipe him out, therefore
He tortures himself

And I'm no longer
The Ignoramus


7. LETTERS TO EARTH

Some time ago
And for a period of time
I lived on another planet
And in another galaxy
Where time
Didn't exist

Sometimes I wrote letters to earth
To ask what year, what season it was
Sometimes I wrote letters to earth
To find out how old I had become

And sometimes I was seventy years old
But other times my granddad wasn't even born
So my letters to him were returned
And I had to note on the envelope
Which year it was supposed to arrive in
Once, for a test, I sent a letter addressed
"Planet Tellus anno 2050"
But I never got neither an answer nor the letter in return

There were no seasons
No nights nor days
There were no calendars
No hourglasses

I don't know how long I lived there
I forgot the meaning of words like
"Tomorrow" and "soon" and "suddenly"
I became both patient and impatient

The strange thing, though
Even if time didn't exist
I always had plenty of it


8. SERENITY

In a transparent myriad of men
I stand, transfixed
I am lost, searching

"Am I the Crestfallen?" I ask
There is no light...
"Am I the Blinded?" I ask
...nor serenity

Redeem me, I yearn
I yearn for an answer
I am lost, searching

"Am I to vanish like water?" I ask
The desert is my daily bread...
"Am I to wither like trodden grass?" I ask
...and tears of threefold my drink

Redeem me, I yearn
I am lost, dear God
Redeem me from this nothingness


9. HOMAGE

My whispering poems
My treasures
My arch images
My treasures

They honour me
Dead, creaking trees
They praise me
Mute, mossy rocks
They worship me
Empty shells

Why exalt a man
Murdered by
His own muse
To prevent him from
Turning in
His grave?

My whispering poems
My treasures
My arch images
My treasures


10. WHAT CRAWLS UNDERNEATH

As this path was never meant to be
Trodden by man
These flowers have been
Nurtured for none's eyes

These pebbles have never
Never been washed ashore
These inner organs have never been
Exposed to light

Hyperion and Mimas orbit for the pleasure of none
The marmot whistles for none's ear
The acrobat performs in his invisible-suit
And mind's eye has never met anyone's glance

None has tore off the moss
To see what crawls underneath
Or lifted the veil
Drained the pools
Dissolved the bloodstains

None has unriddled my archaic smile
Or turned the russet key in my feeble lock

But someone might have been
Scratched by the claws
And impaled on the spears
And pierced by the thorns
...and the needles...
...and the stings…