Salvage
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"Salvage"
Salvage the fixating salvation
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming
the ladder from the deep of all things
reaching upwards travelling in a new time
of melting morpheme moments overlapping
dissolved differences, tight discrepancies peppering the salt stings
something honest and clean scours more pure
the bleeding jetsam some kind of expensive unknown
sprinkling the ever what's internal
like cut open shucked broken jewels hundreds and thousands
more precious than diamonds, rubies, emeralds, opals and pearls
colours communicating strange reflections passing windows
that dance and cry like curlews in a harbinger’s mist
to heal the pain pluming in the hardness
of the inevitable softening of the infernal ache
between the minutiae momentum of thighs
it is pulling like the brackish tide
an exotic existence is borne from fresh upwards
what was breech now turns in directions
spiralling like a Fibonacci paradox marking time
turning neither head nor feet first but like
a ghost shadow through walls the transparent thing floats
it breathes in the strange beatitudes watching
Phoenix feathers napalmed, skin snared and entwined
around soft silky satin pillows the place where dreams lie
held captive enthralled by bones buried beneath a chest
kissing the rapturously denuded Selkie Eurydice observes
IT is penning new unchartered chapters mapping new territories
unconquered jade horizons spark St Elmo's fires
temptation smiles pulling the heart strings of a wounded Ichthyocentaur
the poetic dilettante brushes his poesies with her quill
ignites the pataphysics, tempestuous conceits, self-immolating bonfires
of complacent myths, mariners and their land-banished omens
prodigal Calibans are sent to haunt the dreams
of other shipwrecked puppets strange paramours
praying for solitude and orderly peace
wrapped up like disordered ornaments, unique
in their cool crystalline, they become the warmest becoming
lit hot like speeding silver veins bolts of lightening
shimmering chords threaded through the all seeing
dimensionless eyes sharp as needles
sowing new seeds like bright shiny buttons in its cobalt blanket
the blue skies are different here,
like sparkling aquamarine, turquoise and sapphires
marshmallow clouds soft as ermine and mink
rose quartz, blushing pink tourmaline, golden apricots o'er moonstone
like magnets call the solitary seekers home
yet they take their time, their time is torturously divine
they are re-familiarising themselves
drowning within the suffocating love tomes
caught up in the net of each other
the hypnotised committed godwits
all now blend into wounded words grail-questing
in their Sees of sand, looking, listening for clues,
reaching out for new novitiate prayers
they are turning in the hands of something
offering themselves like Levitical tithes
as small sacrifices in for a penny in for a pound
grief pearls their wet hair baptismal now
again playing innocence happily
fishing for tadpoles and minnows
waiting and watching for a wounded king
walking a sky like one walks an ocean
to whisper us all in and deliver us from ...
devotion
some new better story
some kind of promise
intuitively calls all sleepwalkers in
like morphing zombies
we are raised up from the undertow
now we are silently whirling Mevlevi
hushed in this new reverence
(LadyLabyrinth/2022)
“The Ladder”/Royskopp
https://youtu.be/s_f1Msn608c
"In his 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, Andre Breton defined Surrealism
as "Psychic Automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express...
the actual functioning of thought...in the absence of any control exercised by
reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern."
"Dali, the surrealist painter, had a fascination with DNA
and included it in several of his works. He was, like many who followed him,
in the thrall of the double helix, calling it “a Jacob’s ladder of genetic angels,
the only structure linking man to God”.
“I appreciate that the majority of people who are not only regarded as intelligent but are indeed intelligent, capable of understanding the most difficult scientific, mathematical and philosophical reasonings, are very rarely capable of understanding a most simple and obvious truth, if it is such a truth as requires that they admit that a judgement they have formed about something, sometimes with great effort, a judgement they are proud of, which they have taught to others, on the basis of which they have arranged their life - that this judgement may be wrong.”
(Tolstoy’s ‘What is Art’)
Dali
“Galacidalacidesoxiribunucleicacid”, Salvador Dali,1963
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid
“Salvador Dali and Science, Beyond mere Curiosity”
https://www.salvador-dali.org/media/upload/pdf/salvador-dali-and-science_1409308040.pdf
Dr Christian Bok, Poet
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2011/04/the-xenotext-works
Greg Braden
"The God Code"/DNA
https://youtu.be/jMtt8Wvm1NM
Mark E. Curtis, DNA
https://curtisdna.com/authority.html
Curlews
Why do curlews cry at night? Nicknamed the 'screaming woman bird', their high-pitched, drawn-out shrieks can be heard across the night as they try to contact each other. This eerie behaviour could explain why the species is thought to have close associations with death and suicide in some indigenous Australian cultures.
Godwits
Godwits are Waders (family Scolopacidae), called shorebirds in North America (where "wader" is used to refer to long-legged wading birds such as storks and herons). Godwit originates in Old English, god meaning good, and wit coming from wihte, meaning creature.
"WE are stardust
CHNOPS
6 essential
building blocks
Carbon
Hydrogen
Nitrogen
Oxygen
Phosphorus
Sulphur
somewhere Cobalt and Gold"
(excerpt, "HUMAN", Lovejoy-Burton)
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