Dream // scorpion crawling // father swaddled in white towel // blue sky clear // terror of dirt // the white of eye // the dirt is black // the black of sun // filling vision // terror of worms // blur burning body // dream of scorpions // scurrying over father // swaddled in white towel // the sky blue // a cobalt egg // nests of silk // balls of dirt // stuck to white egg // cracking // in the fury // of the sick // white sheets // body septic // lips stretch // ghostly teeth // air thrumming // failing body // in the sap of its leaking // marsh of veins // orifices // intestines // ropy intestines // maggot worn and ripe // in the juice of its fruit // scent of corpse // hanging like breasts // swollen in milk // hospital // a heavy womb // throng of bodies // melt into land // the dirt is black // the black of sun // the dirt is black // the sod of body // ferocious // the dream of dream // of death // of dream // boiling color // the sod of body // nutrient dense // belly of death // branches // lilac // magnolia // nubbed in blood // the aspergil buds of spring // hysterical tendons // the coolness of rain // the sweat of air // father swaddled // white towel // towel white // eyes black // as church // or dirt // the dirt is black // the black of sun // father swaddled // sky blue and clear // his corpse bobbing // in dream // like apples in tub // his corpse bobbing // the dream of dream // of death // of dream // seed cradled // fruit smooth // panels of flesh // like flowers // blooming // I could taste the blood // like wine // the coolness of rain // ablutions of wine // I prayed blood // branches // of lilac // of magnolia // the coolness of rain // glistening // I prayed blood // I dipped my fingers // I marked // I marked myself // my father dead // in dream // my father swaddled // in blood I dipped myself // the sun // a womb // of terror // the dirt is black // the black of sun // the death fox yapping death // yowling chaotic forms // into presence // carrion eagle // the maw of sun // carrion eagle // the dead breach // wings shimmering // in maw of sun // bodies laid in sun // to crucify // the world // mystical dimming // of sun // a dead body // which is all bodies // laid in cross // to crucify // the world // the maw of sun // to swallow suffering // wounds glittering // wounds glitter // I prayed blood // my father swaddled // in rage of morning // wounds hiss // the hot of iron // in coolness of rain // churning visions // of mutilation // razor shrieking // a blessing // my dead father’s love // dream that is soft // with my dead father’s love // marbling shadow // void of burn // I jerk cum // on beef of time // pure white // pure white // chewed up by night // like white rats // teething on moon // braying prayers // in blood // and wheeze // in blood // braying prayers // white rats // braying prayers // lungs prolapsed // in aching // bullish tongues // cut out of mouth // braying prayers // in blood I pray // my father swaddled // in ash of fur // my father swaddled // the land is ploughed with the bodies of the dead // eyes cataract // in blood // land is ploughed with the bodies of the dead // soil molested // in mobs of sperm // braying prayers // blackening the mystery of God // sperms fryed // in the pan of testicles // blackening the mystery of God // I prayed // in blood // filmy blood // wide with each slimed dead // the land is ploughed // the dirt is black // the black of sun // the dirt is black // corpse farting its umbilical knot // baby face down // garbage in a creek // a fatality of litters // braying prayers // a harmony of disfigurement // hallucination stropped // on the leather // of stretched corpses // the land ploughed // the dirt black // blackening the mystery of God // the rectum of time // jig sawed limbs // flesh of god // cleaving wounds // in sun // in black of sun // cycles of moon // cold as bone // abraded flesh // the sputum of god // frontal bone // plowed by ball peen hammer // harvesting blind // in shitting // of divine light // black of rectum // blackening the mystery of god // in palsied heat // horse blood frothing // black of rectum // blackening the mystery of God // the dirt is black // the black of sun // a womb // of terror // blood forming // worms of sign // of blaze // of sign // marking runes // on the body // the sun // a womb // of terror // blanketing ash // blackening the mystery of god // the body // a burnt valley // chewing on womb // and milled semen // bees yellow in furred pain // the sun // a womb // of terror // the dirt is black // the black of sun // blackening the mystery of god // birds fall from sky like hail // my father swaddled // the sun // the hole in his head // the tumor // the sun // the hole in his head // my father swaddled // rutting organs // his body loose // his body loosening // in the agony of time // his body loosening // in the agony of dream // his body loosening // he is on his way // to the chamber // catheter snaking through loins // he is on his way // to the chamber // dark pools of urine // he is on his way to the chamber // dandruff bone white // he is on is way to the chamber // the night hot // he is on his way to the chamber // colon ruptured // he is on his way to the chamber // the rectum of time // a pierced cavity // glowing black // his bowels loosening // blackening the mystery of God

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S.M.H. is the author of The Extinction Cycle, The Agony of the Sun, Rituals and On Appeasing Angry Gods (Void Front Press), Psalms (SELFFUCK), and Cicatrization (Infinity Land Press).

*Image credit: Odd Nerdrum, Dawn, 1989.