The Abyss

 

Grady McMurtry

 

5 November 1961

 

 

Point-source light of phallic tower

Scrying, spying, eyeing, lying

Sharp star-sheen; metallic power

Crying, sighing, vying, dying

 

Thicketed, the brambled numbers

Fiery steel-springs: Golden Ram

Dream-sequenced perception slumbers

Alien space-beast; abstract am

 

Star-shot canvas; serpent flower

Roiling, coiling, boiling, spoiling

Sun-burst nova; northlight hour

Toiling, broiling, moiling, foiling

 

 

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