1393: The Vulture and the Cross, Over a Thousand Mights, then a Fiery Night Spiralled Indecline
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/08/23
Indeclination imprecations, Hark?
1480 times.
Watching, ἐγρήγορος, awakening, roused,
I succumbed, then saw a goat in blood and oil, a bearer of the sky,
horn by horn, growls.
Hark!
Chirals on spirals, indescent,
I saw an incomparable serpent without a tree.
Wood by wood, wails.
Hark.
Both were long vultures,
hungered by apples,
hungry for human hearts.
Hark?
461 times.
Vultures silent, encircle.
The vultures circled,
and circled and circled.
Hark!
Corkscrewing down,
and down and:
down.
Hark.
They smelled death,
they say.
The Cross’d scent, they say.
Hark?
101 times.
Frankenmyrrhed gold,
they say.
Down and down.
Hark!
And down,
circling the air drain,
corkscrewing and corkscrewing.
Hark.
Corkscrewing to,
what goat?
What serpent?
Hark?
358 times.
What vulture?
What I see,
in panorama:
Hark!
Corkscrewing and corkscrewing,
corkscrewing.
Down and down.
Hark?
5 times.
And down,
Gold, myrrh and frankincense,
vultures, serpent and goat.
Hark!
Cross’d moods and crossing paths,
upon crossed wooden roads.
Three Fall tripartite, together.
Hark.
Goat, serpent, and vulture,
corkscrews drilling down,
an idea’s death was the name.
Hark?
4899 times.
Landed with a curled fiery tail of embered smoke.
Death was named of sudden renewal:
Broken, scattered, reforged — new whole inversely repurposed.
Hark!
How many harks?
For such little time left,
louder the wails now.
Hark.
A single tree,
burning in oil,
serpent ensnared ’til death soon do them part.
Hark?
77 times.
And a thousand mights,
made weak, and maybes nevermore,
that soon night.
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