Angel Pi, Lulla By

Francis Alys' Paradox of Praxis, Mexico City, 1997

little lamb

crying

crying

on the mountain

crying

atop the sacred

and filthy mound

angel of death

floating

above her cloudy crown

like a glass wing-ed fly

like a wasp on fire

incantations

incantations

to a God who is bleeding

milk

alone

the eyelids of a strong animal

a lullaby

in sleep will come

a Garden

we have tried to sew our miseries

to the tree wings of the bumble-bee

and we once slept upon

the caterpillar's rainbow underbelly

while her peacock pupils spun a web of jubilee

and received us, disintegrating

into their illuminated womb--

we almost died poetically, coalescing

without form and within eternity

piously, grotesquely, we cry rust

as the corpse of repentence is burned

a pyramid of roses acts as a primitive casket

and floats like flame upon water

the smell, thick with power and victory

we are holding hands in satiated unity

in the glory of the fleeting sunrise

death all over us, having just gone for a swim

in the left over water of baptism

its so hard most always to melt away

out of existence, into oblivion

and to be wept out of the literal 

eyes of God--

please accept these flowers, every one

adorned in finite-ity

and sucked from the belly of the air

wet with mud and gold

Light/Open Mouths

Floating in the Air, above the ground

Joseph Beuys' I Like America and America Likes Me, 1974 at the Rene Block Gallery, NYC

Photo: Caroline Tisdall

Infinite Seed and Spilling Into It

Still clip from Daft Punk's Electroma, 2007

Go on, look through my body of glass.

Manipulate the mirrors inside your eye

so as to illude my perfection into existence.

My driftwood heart is floating in a bath tub

of dirt.

And from this mountain, I can see the red star rise

in the ecstatic sky, like a colored-in triangle.

My eye lashes are attached to the vertical tug-of-blood

drops, sluggishly seeping out from an oblivious cloud;

and, the black-night fire

is reaching down from somewhere to swallow

all

Of the wild flowers, who will stand tall

and weird?

and drip in the translucent shine of destruction?

Who will walk into darkness, eyes wide?

an Other Daffodil Disassembling in Tune

Sunflowers hold the seeds of stars

on the tip of their heart's tongue,

or in the wake of the wind's repose,

and only the flutter-by knows.

She dances endlessly through the flame.

Ablaze, yet she will not consume,

nor be consumed;

while her joy lives by candlelight inside her soul.

We will whither the petals to tealeaves.

Light's blood will be forced down our throats:

a desperate medicine,

a cure for our ignorance, unknown.

In her sleep, we'll pluck her perfect wings,

and blow at them, as if at the bare neck

attached to a dandelion's weary head.

Her body's parts will fall like rain

All over us

Love alone

I can feel my soul unraveling

Stitch by stitch,

left for dead beside my body,

a mound of tangled black thread.

Contorting itself into an everlasting cloud,

it opens its mouth wide to suck the stars,

and consequently drools upon my pillow: blood.

My mind is drenched.

I eat flowers to try

My mouth hole is open but no one can see inside.

It is not me.

Carrying the weight of forests and ecstasty,

I want nothing more than to be no more.

Existence itself oozes from my eyes like an infection,

while I dream of the heaviest knife that never existed

meeting my glowing heart.

Decomposed in the Foreword Fur of Eden

Morning

has passed, is gone.

See morning.

Then, the yellow lake (and the cannibal fish),

the naked body,

rotting,

and the cloak denied.

In the morning--

The ear that heeds not, the great mountain's soft song,

when in the morning, you rise up and destroy,

and the heart of the sun is licked at by our broken tongues.

Morning.

has passed, is gone away.

See morning.

Then, the black sunflower (and the adulterous bee),

the eternal winter,

swallowing,

and the fake snow.

In the morning--

The owl that breathes not, into the mouth of the blood-horn,

when in the morning, you awake and annihilate,

and the sun suffers and settles down now over our rib cage, exposed.

Morning

has passed, is gone, 

far