Gordon Kennedy
Orion
bone pentagram, enscrypt here
in the almanack of skin & nail
whose lines chart out all paths of comets
now & ever numbering
the five schematic cardinals
of Sigil A
the mess in the slaughterhouse we are astronomy
hot spiral galaxies red pulsar shift
all whisperd messages of blood
forever breathing out like radio
these abbatoir assistant's hands
adjust the onscreen dials:
the radiotelescope inverts, displays
one fingernail in severd bright eclipse
meat shudders on the rack:
why were we brought here
what are we to see
ghost images on liquid crystal
ghost that fucks the carcass of an ox
blood's endless trek across the screen the stone
the hunter's call forever out
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the smallest parts of us fill the sky
in the almanack of skin & nail
whose lines chart out all paths of comets
now & ever numbering
the five schematic cardinals
of Sigil A
the mess in the slaughterhouse we are astronomy
hot spiral galaxies red pulsar shift
all whisperd messages of blood
forever breathing out like radio
these abbatoir assistant's hands
adjust the onscreen dials:
the radiotelescope inverts, displays
one fingernail in severd bright eclipse
meat shudders on the rack:
why were we brought here
what are we to see
ghost images on liquid crystal
ghost that fucks the carcass of an ox
blood's endless trek across the screen the stone
the hunter's call forever out
01000001
01000001
01000001
the smallest parts of us fill the sky
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