Genre of Silence

The Genre of Silence

Its master “The first fingers petal’d up, the hand as a lamp, a calyx”.... The silver-purple, “...blue-pale smoke, as of {incense}” Cool flame above the darkness. The incandescence in repose Wood ~ not “woods”, dark as touched by the warm skilled hand Deep as formed, formed as hollow temple columns, Pine resounding, reverberant in vault-halls, As if lightly struck, otherwise still beauty of potential “Wrapped each in burnous, smoke as the olibanum’s, Swift, as if joyous.” Pale blue smoke of Palo Santo moving through warm velvet Through the velvione white indolic As on Jasmine slippers through midnight silence ... A season underground, a new Genre of Silence ... Like Rops, where the opopanax and cyclamen provokes a delirious fever “conducive towards production, or even towards reproduction.” Quiescent cultivator of the indole flower fleshwhite visitor, almost ... phantomwhite Silent breath of attraction, adept of inflorescence, Repose in sambac Pull, sans mass Centered, but all suspension Melati Putih, Sampaguita Secreted, the flesh of introspection As VineMoon over iocule As ether-mist of jasmonate prisma Methylated, etherized Swift to rise, then lazily in the nocturne breeze Cool flame above restful darkness Lantern-resinous body, deep, underneath, the Wild Opopanax, ultraviolet of lumen Diadem-moon in glowing amber Sultry night of living balm Balsam narcosis Lurksong of felinesque In the ancient Patchouli gardens, shaded in darkness Then cave with porphyry waters, Minerel Dimwarm cave ... intimate bliss The beeswax, the wisebearded stalagtites of commitment The altar of spice, the husk of cardamom, bark of cinnamon, the bloodred isoeugenol toxic myth projects Carnation And the fallen berries of Juniperis in the dew Formed by moon-time As Tuberose in the shadowsun, As in deepest nightshade: the hypnagogic bloom of Black Datura, Nepenthe of ornament Necrobiome to twilight of shadowsoul Blackest necroflower to whitest indoleflower in tranquilo night And black and white to birth-pink Carnation Ovule to Ovule Calyx to Calyx As moonbeam silvers on each; “...shed naked and glistening on to a soft, fecund earth.” As Ambrette freed from earth; As intimate diffusion Sacred and sensual Sepulchre of committed form Not “erogenous contra narcotic”, ~ but ~ Erogenous because Narcotic As two lovers inhumed and diffuse projection, eternal Deep primal musk of Monos, soft skin musk of Una