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Antonin Artaud
There is a rustling
amongst
this thatch of malediction
& prayer
a gesture
fulminates the spinal column - a ceremony
of ink rhythms
circulates
in these scarred, traveller’s hands
& the air
flashes silver
in a polyphony of knives.
He crouches
shrouded by
observations,
speared
from the cauldron w/a
this watchful architect of the void
who ruptures
the mise en scène of thought
as
outside the bombs rain
down on
Squinting, he receives another
apparation
a shard of body
scars,
tracings
of collapsed lungs,
radio
waves
from the debris of aircrafts
forming smoke writings
& words are flung in a mantra
against the
chalk white crumbling walls
Artaud gathers what remains
of his thoughts. a last pirouette of
remembering. a darkeningrace
hovering
over him, as he
stands bolt upright
speaks in shrill fluted tones
in gasps &
whispers
holding
council with the demons, the saints and dead soldiers
who have chosen communion with him
the squall
of voices subside
as he
turns to where
his
iron casket
the last work before departure
hovers in the burning coals.
with
eyes fixed in precise metallic sonatas
he
strikes incantations deep in the glowing metal
weaving thin
Orbits of fire.
Shoulders twist
& skin
glints with animal light
the
hands
silver
trays of hexagrams
carry the deathglimmer
& the
burnished demons
Vanish
Artaud’s breath
contains a furnace which burns
up
questions.
thinklines of skin suffuse
w/dark flames
weaving hylozoic spells
back
into the iron frame
as spittle scrawls from his lips with a hiss.
the air is thick
hesitant,
surrendering. Poised before this precipice
an abyss
of
“ni plus chef-d’œuvres”
Which
when revealed yields yet another veil.
His casket
scripted from woven
lightning and hieroglyphic
Traces —
is unable to further
endure Artaud’s cachexia
stare
&
mutely begs
for the hammer blows
To Cease
Antonin relents; his heart shifting
Inside a stooped frame. Transfixed he watches
as the blue inscriptions
glow red orange
grey : —
A revenent gaze
flickering at
the access of the mountain
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