| The Kingdom of Heaven Suffereth Violence
Something's wrong in the heart and in the heavens.
Whirling wants, souls lassoed where they should not be
and something stirs with sudden violence because—
Setting's everything in this skewed picture plane
as these auras emphasize—limbs like wings bent and wavering.…
How each angelic has its opposite
caress its brilliant blow … And in heaven's surface
layers,
loops of cadmium, titanium, and lead. Here umber
burnished backwards, here ocher gone amiss.
Heart with absence echoing home.
As in errancy I inhabit: hunger equals industry.
A fetish to finesse. Broker
of bliss and batter, whose bad?
What alchemy is here at work
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