past parentage or gender

beyond sung vocables

the slipped-between

the so infinitesimal

fault line

a limitless

interiority

beyond the woven

unicorn the maiden

(man-carved worm-eaten)

God at her hip

incipient

the untransfigured

cottontail

bluebell and primrose

growing wild a strawberry

chagrin night terrors

past the earthlit

unearthly masquerade

(we shall be changed)

a silence opens

*

the larval feeder

naked hairy ravenous

inventing from within

itself its own

raw stuffs’

hooked silk-hung

relinquishment

behind the mask

the milkfat shivering

sinew isinglass

uncrumpling transient

greed to reinvest

*

names have been

given (revelation

kif nirvana

syncope) for

whatever gift

unasked

gives birth to

torrents

fixities

reincarnations of

the angels

Joseph Smith

enduring

martyrdom

a cavernous

compunction driving

founder-charlatans

who saw in it

the infinite

love of God

and had

(George Fox

was one)

great openings