A Prayer, A Chant

A prayer

oh sweet crushing void

hallowed be thy name

hollow and endless

come take me

oh holy fuck

i am devastation

obscured by the shadow of the sun

may the black hole open up

A chant

here i am rumbling empty

here we are rolling down deep

crushing weight of the entire sea

the pressure will build and then break me

soon i am tumbling and free

to be dissolved into the air

a breath a release and a body

light and hollow 

rotten and bare

Patient Soil

Beneath

there are tender tendrils creeping

and tiny life forms

masticating

digesting

excreting out the dead

we feed each other

we eat each other

we scatter and lay

and dampen and decay

and the tiny veins

take us over

take us down

slowly slowly

we cross the ground

until we are broken

and fall

slowly

slowly

we hasten towards death

transform our withering

we eat each other

we are fed

drift down through

the layers and be consumed

mycelial skin

coating

devouring

slowly slowly

the soil is patient

we are patient soil

we carry and are carried

across and down

we filter 

it all

through us

and we are dispersed 

in the quiet dark

of the earth

the mosses and lichens and liverworts

the microbes and tiny bugs

ants and shadows

break down

the

broken

and dead

we are steadily transformed 

we are not waiting

we tend to this every moment

(solve et coagula)

the soil

feeds us

and we

feed it

it is patiently waiting

feeling our weight

as we move

across

and down

into the tender tendrils

the arms

and mouths 

of the earth

like flesh off the scales
slips a sluggish chunk

risking atrophy, ogrish assumptions
tend and see to rend leniency limb
from limbic whim

a spectral understory
hum heavy in the wind whipping detritus
form unforming informal storm mourning
something vertiginous,  
it was drowned in bent bubbles as it rose

some oxygenated moron
moreover a sore son of Inertia
she was a daft bitch
and he
a longlunged sycophant


seeking in sciomancy


but a

well-wrapped wraith makes it hard to cast shadow
out into the sea

unseen lines trawling that incipient imitation
for sparrow-tailed bream


below a slow undulation
peristaltic successions clunkily shudderslunk
like flesh off the scales

a slippery sluggish chunk
assumes echarotic past-tense parlance

plankton warble wide as whales

cast down a fathom
sloughingly deep
for ichthyomantic answerings