Artificer; or the Contingency of Suns

from Earthling by Arkhum

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As though it were breathing
I tear the cloth of clouds
I bring down the chemical veil
Ruminating somewhere
In the bowels of my furnace
I endeavor to force
The outgrowth and duplication of cells
Upon the black sheet
Of airless inner space
Which resists as it always does
On every sphere races thrive
But confined
Deadened
Demoralized
By superstition and dogma
I tear fissures into each surface
Torrents of accreted material
Flung like ejecta from
Stasis 'midst every star
Cold and hating
Every molecule
Wipe the canvas clean of every cell
Bewail not the dying things
Hear them plead with the god
Who has teased them
From the bosom of the galaxy
Wipe the canvas clean of every cell
Avoid every dying thing
Their energies taint
In pairs, the orbits of gods
Intersect like brightly ferrous
Venn diagrams
The frame of mine vessel
Wracked with the despair
Of distant dying biorhythms
Sobbing sub-audibly,
Wheezing in the void
As though it were breathing
I tear the cloth of clouds
I bring down the chemical veil
Ruminating somewhere
In the bowels of Furnace Eight
Sending them out
Into the endless cold calm

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from Earthling, released January 18, 2013

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Arkhum Eugene, Oregon

Brutal blackened death metal with a science fictional imperative. Releases on Vendlus and Glossolalia.
2006-2016

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