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for t. winter-damon<\/em><\/p>\n Forever interpreting Immersed in dreamtides Enthralled by the occult Anticipating the excavation Last heard from for t. winter-damon Forever interpreting ancient texts as their tattered scrolls unrolled within his mind, treading the borders of the Axis Mundi with no more than an empty leather satchel, ranging the streets of Xanadu and Carcosa, Asgard and Babylon, tracking like a beast with a ravenous beast astride its back, whispering sacral […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nancient texts
\nas their tattered
\nscrolls unrolled
\nwithin his mind,
\ntreading the borders
\nof the Axis Mundi
\nwith no more than
\nan empty leather satchel,
\nranging the streets
\nof Xanadu and Carcosa,
\nAsgard and Babylon,
\ntracking like a beast
\nwith a ravenous beast
\nastride its back,
\nwhispering sacral curses
\nand foul blessings
\nto the eldritch winds.<\/p>\n
\nand chimerical visions
\nand cimmerian prophets
\nwhose shadows rose
\nfrom the dust of ages,
\nworshipping priestesses
\ncreated for the day,
\nfollowing transient avatars
\ndown to a dim beach
\nand the dark sea
\nof a false dawn
\nto hear the damp cries
\nof beached mariners
\nechoing in his brain.
\nIntoxicated by secret keys
\nand magical rings,
\nobsessed by puzzle boxes
\nwith hidden compartments
\nonly to be opened
\nby the wisest of men
\nand most cunning women,
\ndrunk on myth and
\nhistory and a tomorrow
\nthat foreshadowed
\nmore than night.<\/p>\n
\nand the fantastic,
\nCrowley and Blavatsky,
\nFaustus and Paracelsus,
\nLevi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dogme et Rituel
\nde la Haute Magie,
\nporing over maps
\nrevealing the locations
\nof imagined kingdoms,
\nMu and El Dorado,
\nAtlantis and Shangra-La,
\nthe Archipelago of Dreams,
\nmaps fashioned by madmen
\non a transcendental high
\nover a fifth of Ravens Rum
\nand a pinch of fly agaric.<\/p>\n
\nof underwater ruins
\nand red temples
\ncrumbling to red sand
\nin some distant desert,
\nastounded by age-old
\narchitectural mysteries,
\nthe Great Pyramids,
\nthe dour monoliths
\nof Easter Island,
\nthe astronomical
\nsavvy of Stonehenge,
\nawaiting the lab tests
\non the Shroud of Turin
\nand the release of
\na revised annotation
\nof the Bardol Thodol,
\npraying for the miraculous
\nto snuff the everyday.<\/p>\n
\ntraveling to parts unknown,
\nhead down and eyes afire,
\ncarrying no more than
\na worn leather satchel
\nstuffed with worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"