memories of eden

Memories of Eden

flashbacks of death

forests in fire for all to breathe easy

when earth was a great vagina

& the heart a fertile womb

until the double-edged sword of time intertwined

in sickness & in wealth

in wonder & boredom

broke free the serpent of thought

coiled like a ring of smoke up from the mountains

chain-smoke the aurora

evergreens like bookends

the moon a grand nipple

now war ravages the landscape

now famine rapes the eyes

& martyred blood is a sacred wine

I fucked the goddess of confused Egypt

I fucked Mother Gaia once and knocked her up with twins

I fucked you & you knew it was me

the cherub with his flaming sword had to look the other way

you were a goddess & I was just a human slave

our child the blind bastard creator

stumbling around in the fourth dimension trapped like a polaroid

memories of Eden

in perpetual genesis

in a tight black skirt

in an undeveloped negative

like a pebble in your shoes

wet sand between the toes forever

I never tried to write a gospel

I never dreamed I’d fuck an angel

but Isis on a stick like cotton candy

like circus love like tomorrow

the breasts that rise and fall in the exhaust of the ages

between the firmament and the soil

the chasm the void the dark days between

only thing between love the magnet

& the crude metal of this tomb this man

collapsed on the altar

knowing himself naked

drunk on the dregs of the blood of Christ

hallucinating memories of Eden

sketched for eternity in young symbols

read the writing on the cave walls

just east of a lost garden

never where it used to be

forever where it seems