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Orison to the Thirteenth Tick Off the Millenium

from That Towering Blue by James Wylder

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From "Cascade".

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Orison to the Thirteenth Tick off the Millennium

Scores of stars were sacrificed into the blackness
sinking into the sky, while we look up at the blight
of their absence
 

And from their ichor we dance as they bleed into the night
black black blood that damps the light and fuels the fire
dance dance into the night
as the fire fuels our new delight

 
We burn the effigies of old and scream into the night foretold
and laugh at all the things that never came about
and kick the dreams that left unborn
still fester in our brains
We lead the masses hand by hand in daisy chains and
build our lemonade stands up from ground control
to lead to rockets to the glow and you can take me by that stone
and dance dance into the night
as the fire fuels our new delight

 
and make the lemons into oranges, apples even
right the gorges of the bitter sour stinging lies
and birth baktun millennial goodbyes
to to all the things we can't abide
and you would watch, and so would I
the innocence we lost to "whys"
and untold heads against our chest
I'll wait for you by the night, when the singing stops
and all we see is epoch, mountainous and bold
thinking life is just the days of old
and I'll wait wait unto our flight
as the flame unfurls into the knife

 
that cuts away the mnemonic power
that slits the past and burns the hours
that paganous rite, a year anew
we dance and burn and pray and brew
and cry unto our new baktun
millennial to cure the blues
and if you wait, I'll dance and charm
and we will chant unto the dawn
as the fire burns wood into light
we will dance and dance
till we need no fight

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from That Towering Blue, released May 1, 2016

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James Wylder Elkhart, Indiana

Author of "An Eloquence of Time and Space", "10,000 Dawns", and "Cryptos."

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