Sunday, August 7, 2011

god undertoe

From the dark, outside in a car, snuggled in layer upon layer like an infinite scene between mind numbing reflections, I see her immortal face. She is at once naked in repose while standoffish and cornered like a froufrou poodle bag hung from a hook on delicate chains. Now her impossible motility, unlikely as pendulous giraffes dowsing in a broken stream, bombarded by boulders and the remnant footsteps of flimsy bygone behemoths, have me thirsting for knowledge not available in any story book of leaping hounds or grandly feathered divas. Abstract fleurs melting, rising out of artificial holes governed by lieutenants bearing their badge on wheels, are displayed like archaic skeleton keys that rise in bespeckled currents shod in pink party dresses until they hang in stasis like poems constructed by Robert Indiana in a Vonnegut guild parlayed with gold parquet. Now from within out she lays harbor to a flat surface heeding no warning as she has over many midnights now, playing her games, her dance upon the chessboard as a porcelain pawn waving and pivoting away the shadows. Her erstwhile god, in a pallid room, taps a timepiece and weighs his options, a heavy eye upon the tripping beauty who applied for the position.

Her winsome visage and form grace his studio on clapboard easels while his conclusions are as labored as the palpitation of recalcitrant snails ridden in mobius figure eights by scantily clad waifs doubling as dim muses hanging beneath clever word balloons. An icon in dark glasses, he wears a skinny black tie and draws his lightning power from pointillism and the ordinary tin can; the god fingers his chest, a flesh weave of cardigan and taupe. His student, she, is statuesque and worthy of apprenticeship. He might command a genius to sculpt her in marble then remove the artist's hands for touching unattainable beauty. She is voluptuous, lithe, winged and envisioned as a ferocious goddess with the head of an angel and the body of a chicken. The smoldering Rorschach spheres will cast its vote while blue twin bitches wearing the fur of turquoise ovids look on with distaste. So does a former mermaid in a triangle bikini and pie cut Afro acquiesce, believing that somewhere her novice leads a wanderful of sheep around a pole and will likely be doing so long after the colored pins drop from her map of Nirvana and points without.

The moon is rusting and held in the sky by twine, lecherous mutations abscond with earthly nonpareils, men kneel to buxom maidens or flail at their snubs, dropping from unforgiving heights, falling upon their swords, delving between the jaws of crocodiles when the guilt of grief dissolves their bodies into the crust of loveless airborne dust.

Behold the being that I will create by dabbing my nib into the well, at my leisure. I will forge this document melding sunfire on my naked breast, sending legions, sacking cities, and engraving upon her grimace the web of godhood. Swifts will deliver at her doorstep a procession, warped in satin, enthrone her like a madonna in a great birds nest, on a gathering post as handmaids, stuffed heads and the shrieking Lucretia worship her willingly. The trinkets of refuted candidates parade in shadow boxes upon my wall.

Patterned lemur of zigzags gathers its leaf, lays the frond beside awesome murals and carved pebbles from the nude green starlets. Inside this Dome of Radiation all see the architecture within one another and their spirits soar with the white doves as cloudburst memos rain down begging for the lord's willful ignorance. Her eyes become a mosaic watching disguised concubines led over trails of flame lined with the lustful emanation of Tiki stones. The fuscous god, i, looms afloat and sees through wafting shades of purple, his pencil headdress courting circular steps, loading a pixelated image of the successor.

No more is she a gewgaw on a checkered board, but bejeweled unto the shade of a beached monument, inked upon pages of myriad tomes. Legions will name particles and planets for her sons, shift their postures in deference, defeat untold foes with weapons of inferiority. Mighty men digest ocean worms and stare into the fiery eyes of demon kings in her name, as her god before her lays beneath her stiletto foot, beguiled then betrayed by the oils he splashed onto the white canvas, soiled by his vision.

9 comments:

JeffScape said...

I think you just invented post-modern, adbsurdist neo-romanticism.

Harnett-Hargrove said...

Yes, this is the type of trip I come over here why for. The quick-sand gets me every time. Don't try to save me. -J

Bimbimbie said...

Oh bravo, I think you just gave voice to my migraines*!*

Baino said...

Tom's back and caught in a Half Moose. I don't really know why I like it. The wording's wonderful, the story? A little lost but still magical. I'm with Jayne . . .trippy!

PattiKen said...

If Lewis Carroll collaborated with Henry Miller to write aN allegory, this might be the result. It made my head spin.

Lceel said...

I don't enjoy being critical, but perhaps Timothy Leary might make sense of this on one of his acid trips. I, unfortunately, cannot.

Unspoken said...

"He might command a genius to sculpt her in marble then remove the artist's hands for touching unattainable beauty. She is voluptuous, lithe, winged and envisioned as a ferocious goddess with the head of an angel and the body of a chicken. The smoldering Rorschach spheres will cast its vote while blue twin bitches wearing the fur of turquoise ovids look on with distaste."

And those final lines... Brilliant. I want to drink these words. Fabulous!

Tom said...

half-moose: it's not for everybody

Brian Miller said...

alright, read it when you first posted it, spun back through to read again...i like it...def will make the head swirl...but i like it.