I.

carnation kettle/antebellum/gristle to gogo

in tide of sentiment/tears turn tar.

white page/as mind-mirror/in which

                      (          )

is made manifest. sees itself reflected there. vast startled eyes looking

into vast astonished eyes.

II.

panacea/river-rummage/in guts of time-torrent twinkling.

take a second (            )   to reflect.

Narcissus/the 6 petals/about the radiant centre.

bright myth in buckets/The Fisher King

made whole.

III.

Pandemonium. the city of black volcanic rock.

and pluming/piling smoke/black cumulus castles

cross black sun.

the subterranean citadel/with high builded walls/

and parapets/and roiling moat of red lava/alive-

devils for denizens/the principalities/of hell.

                          MESMERIC

the eye of the serpent/sempiternal/seeing

from times birth glimmer/to dark vortex/

at times end/caught

in the frozen gaze.

IV.

prophets eye/in fine frenzy rolling

speech hurled/to deaf air-

and done.