On the Forming Substance of Orishas

Will Alexander, Poet and Essayist: A Special Section

Like spectral glass or music in hypnotic palindrome I float in measureless unus-ambo¹ as if up a flight of refracted shale I had greeted my own collusion my quaking appoggiatura in morose voudanic empyreans in a darkened gradient ideal in a treatise on immortal monsoon en-storement

yes on combined ammonia & sand by extracting dye from bitter surgical causes by flames monstrously modified by treason as if I threw from my optics a blizzard of dice a transformed connivance & flew spellbound into the jeopardous range of dense Judaic gods

who change forms who variate as monsters as plagues as ghosts who block the sun door

so my Orishas imprisoned theistically locked who advance & retreat by phantom creosote vibration by prayer as aboriginal containment

therefore the sun a lucid kestrel flambeau appearing in fictitious scintilla like a spector or a draught with both its ciphers missing again appearing as a blood drenched duenna as a life & death rotation as a quintessential acid

& so my Orishas with the double throat of a billion ethers flying across runic withdrawal flying as obscured pariahs

alive as if sulfuric bi-theism were shattered with its laws with its manacles with its phantoms

& my Orishas with their sputum coloured auras with their eyes of tortured hurricane moons as flailing solitary ghats as quintessential duplicity part quadrant & part yellow & I with lustrous looking glass pigment with my roving heretical elixir

& so there is thirst there are surreptitious muffling powders

& the deities with their scattered wounding teeth watch my Orishas turn shadow & vanish & continue to hum within my voice as in a glass of old veronal brew

Now as dialectical advantage as high above deistic moral chambers

their winged singular fate freed to roam inscrutable havens beyond the fact of an insular neutron thesis beyond the trait of canonic barrier as reversion