past parentage or gender

beyond sung vocables

the slipped-between

the so infinitesimal

fault line

a limitless

interiority



beyond the woven

unicorn   the maiden

(man-carved   worm-eaten)

God at her hip

incipient

the untransfigured

cottontail

bluebell and primrose

growing wild   a strawberry

chagrin   night terrors

past the earthlit

unearthly masquerade



(we shall be changed)



a silence opens



          *



the larval feeder

naked   hairy   ravenous

inventing from within

itself its own

raw stuffs'

hooked silk-hung

relinquishment



behind the mask

the milkfat   shivering

sinew   isinglass

uncrumpling   transient

greed to reinvest



          *



names have been

given (revelation

kif   nirvana

syncope)   for

whatever gift

unasked

gives birth to



torrents

fixities

reincarnations of

the angels

Joseph Smith

enduring

martyrdom



a cavernous

compunction driving

founder-charlatans

who saw in it

the infinite

love of God

and had

(George Fox

was one)

great openings