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Combustion/Dream-Spark/Saturnalia

Brian Spaeth

Under the sway of a remote and uncertain star in a constellation of chalk...

Strobe-Alarm Nocturne on the 10th Floor
Numberless poisons comingle and flourish in our innermost dreams
Faceless threats and streaks of lightning around the Old Bennett Building

Ancient fireworks burn & flare in the sulphur skies:
Conflagrations and bonfires too hot to put out
Flares that leave green spots on your eyes
I choke on infernal fumes as sparks appear on my corneas

Stories boiled & leached out of wormwood
Stories steamed, pressed, and blocked into the shape of a hat!
Dreams bathed in chemicals...
Apotheosis at the corner of Fulton & Nassau!

Thoughts filtered through charcoal...
Wobbly in absential ash-mound fever—burnt cylinders and caustic sparkplug-narcosis

Stars flutter and burn, sending intermittent signals in a time of great distress...

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