18 mars 2020

Valley of Confusion,
     Great Podzolic Abyss

monstrous nymphaea of nature
    eternal and in each direction.

 like mountain-walls or whole ranges
   framing a valley in the taiga.

     within the valley
     the mother of nothing sleeps
     like her own baby sleeps
     the sleep which never existed.

    and outward its center, a tongue
    ever-digging, ever-spinning
    into and through the crust of the earth.

 rich with mineral and phosphorus,
 covered though in strong webs and silks
      as to cloud, defend its heart.

 enormous hole! valley of confusion.
 it opens now slowly,
  like gates open,
    like a black gate opening.

           bare now,
         a great and podzolic abyss
          under the wind-throw of Yggdrasil,
           its roots are no longer alive.


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