slabs of concurrent cedar planks,
shift of cloth-covered feet,
the satin binding of guardians,
the deep blue magic of the Beats,
revolutionaries, the canaries bent
on troglodytic domination,
the flavored mouth sucks, seminal
substance,
he practiced dime-store Sufism
in the YMCA basement, handing out
torn leaflets to the towel boys
and the secret parish priests,
shielding ancient Hindu karma
with an imaginary steel spoon,
and spiked cherry whiskies,
and grins of talented mopes,
emergent from dawn smokes
on the foreign battlefields, Gehenna,
sweet relief of mystics, long tooth,
array of the holy tomes,
wholly unreadable,
stale sentences of the Ascetics
defaming the memory of Moloch
with olive leaf
stained cargoes,
amphorae of delights, traded
once between masters,
star stuff stolen from Phoenician
harbors,
the nature of salty coastlines
kept in secret orders,
wispy battle toads
sent to do battle
against the war chariots
of phantom hosts,
themselves supplicant to knowledge,
to the weigher of disillusionment
the one true god of discernment,
the wave checker, the reality mind, the hive larva,
the parallels between allegories,
the iron bells and balsa swords of prophetic court,
Salvia, Cannabis Ruderalis, powerful reflection
Popaver somniferum, saliva
of the Himalayan tahr,
whispers of Diane di Prima tonguing
your ear
with the solvent equation that spawns cycles,
you are the limitless purveyor
of opening, the seer in psychosis,
the grappler, the masseuse, the angelic spoof,
the jam surfer, the wise old man in the forest,
the laugher at the grave, the enchanter of Succubi,
the channeler of tone, he whom the Creator granted
baseline conscience, the decider of relevance,
the very wavelength of dimensional form