Pioneer

In absences, a holocaust

Of self, expelling as atom smasher

a single electron, pinging off brick and sail

 

In vacancies, an inquisition

hooded in the night you roam

a hollow, singular note in

 this orchestra

 

Sliding past inflated preachers

and transvestite clowns alike

One singing out for stampedes

The other, shackles of divinity

 

You hear under all wavelengths

A longing composition

of blue serpent suits

And striped sleeves alternating

But all you see is his vague sketch

A Pencil Rough, wholly human

no nimbus of loneliness

 

A lone sub-atomic

In a clinician's sterile cell

a groping vector

Night's pioneer

Blazing a trail

Down two roads at once

 

All before first lance

A twilight pilgrim

In a warm, humid night

Crumpled around you

In warm, velvet folds

embracing the dead earth

that clothes you

like mummy strips

 

You may see my eyes

two puritans setting sail

gouging the static fields

For any scrap of nerve left to feel

 

Out of the harsh auroral blaze

Every morning my own

private holocaust

a victim by absentee ballot

naked before solar wind

 

In neophyte night

i start my pilgrimage

seeking a light more primordial

 

These harsh chords segue

from absent phrases

To a stained-glass coda

 

My blood, not of like color

rather a sable stream

the kind of coursing anti-life

imbibed by black holes

 

The eruption of supernova

In which i hear the spectrum

From the blue fringe of sea-foam

to wet paws on green forest mat

 

Quickening a new red rush

In innerspace