Here are a few phantom-lines which spontaneously burst forth from the Well...
All my Hearts-guides now gather
In the Palace of the Tavern of the Slaves;
Servants blind in Giving, sequestered;
In prayer-circles turning, when the ecstacy is a cinder;
And the Light-mantles dissolve; Before the Whiteness
Of the exposed bone of each limb bleaches out the Eye;
And a single-tear of Pearl unfolds, In thy Presence,
When the humming of the honey-bee ceases
With the Heart-beat of a drum; Until then, All is Death;
Thy Mistress is lost; She is chained by her braids;
She cannot lose Herself; She is bound by the splendor of lights
In ribboned-bands; Lovely ribbons to strangle and wind-tight;
A tomb of vibration...depth, depth upon depth with walls
Dulling colors, frequencies of slowing-air, gelling light;
Annoint the Tomb with thy fleshy-waters and stolen jewels
Wed upon rotting wood, upon brick and stone;
Wet with lips of water, running off like curls of heavy hair;
Coils like curls, serpent-coils, with fangs to bind each strand
With thick venom; hanging-light in heavier curls before her face;
I cannot see or feel for this; the never-existent, the unraised rose;
The curls more dusky and heavy-scented, dead-bark and musk;
Until her curled-hair becomes a bed upon which death sits;
Still waiting to be raised; That which patient-waits
For One Unspeakable Whisper
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