tarach tarocco dyscrasia
Intrapersonal Communique ::: split|mind:alchemical)
[peace in prepositions]

Morning's insurrection,
nausea's wet fires
come
to dry sweat from these blankets
to brand these septic moments:
     Who have we become?
     And where do we run?

Who do we become,
     when sleepless nights
          follow sleepless nights?
What thoughts do we think
     in sacrum apogee –
          and what thoughts think us?

How much sleep did you lose
before you lost yourself?

My Spouse, my shepherd:
     How many sheep did you corral
     before you fenced me out?

{It sits still inside me:
Everything –
liquid, stone,
sky and fire –
     phlegm and blood and bile –
new transmutations
     old organs
          to digest
          this day}

And where do we run,
     when empty days
          follow empty days?
What words do we speak
     in the stretching dawn –
          and what words speak us?

How much did you say
before your voice overtook you?

My Priest, my poet:
     How many recitals did you give
     before you lost me in the crowd?

{It still sits inside me:
Everything –
liquid, stone,
sky and fire –
     phlegm and blood and bile –
old transmutations
     new organs
          to digest
          this day}

Morning's insurrection,
stomach's failed emetic
comes:
base organ's dumb attempt
to purge higher-order problems:
     Who have we become
     and where the fuck do we run?

{It sits, still inside me:
Everything –
liquid, stone,
sky and fire –
     phlegm and blood and bile –

(What dreams do we dream –

          and what dreams dream of us?)

It sits, envelops me:
four humors fence me in –
liver, bladder,
spleen and lungs –
     old mutations
          forming new ways
               to digest
               this day}

                I find peace
                        in
                prepositions

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09/18/2009

Author's Note: --- --- --- sacrum: Late Latin, sacred apogee: the point in the orbit of a heavenly body at which it is farthest from the earth; the highest or most distant point; climax. emetic: causing vomiting, as a medicinal substance. tarach: Arabic "reject"; possible source for English word "Tarot." tarocco: Italian derived from tara: "devaluation of a merchandise” and “deduction, the act of deducting"; another possible source for English word "Tarot." dyscrasia: ancient Greek, "bad mixture" [specifically an imbalance of the 4 humors]. Intrapersonal [communication]: pathological talking to ones self. Communique: an official bulletin or communication, usually to the press or public. splitmind: schizophrenia. alchemy: attempt to transmute base elements into noble ones (Western/European); attempt to achieve immortality by brewing and consuming the right combination of poisons (Eastern/Chinese) tarach tarocco dyscrasia : “reject the devaluation of the imbalance” Intrapersonal Communique : “the one that is many talking uncontrollably to the many that is one” splitmind:alchemy : “distilling discordance to its highest form / transmuting the fractured self into an immortal harmony”

Posted on 09/18/2009
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