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The fourth piece from my in-progress Book "Cerebral Citadel". I suppose it’s something of a next chapter in my ongoing obsession with the imagination as an independent from of experience with its own very real treasures and dangers.
The Audio features a reading by me - as opposed to an automated voiceover.
4: The Calcified Firmament
I calcify the firmament
Shattering its story.
Exertion and excitement
Of the solar territory.
Birdsong to coin clatter
Infinity to indulgence.
Mind under matter
Choked by circumstance.
Ledgers, paper serpents,
Nymphs slip on the coils.
My fingers rip the firmament
Eyes blink, water, boil.
Waking stumbles, limbs waver.
Floating fingers closing in.
My muscles shift like paper
Blown by the distant wind.
Read the previous part here:1:3 Sun Sinks, River Rolls
(Click to see full size with greater detail) The second piece from my in-progress Book "Cerebral Citadel". I suppose it’s something of a next chapter in my ongoing obsession with the imagination as an independent from of experience with its own very real treasures and dangers.
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Happy Tomes Tuesday
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Thank you for your time as always
Graeme
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I only have a way of responding to something like this: imaginative entry, somewhere between calcified muscles and infinity. It felt like a symbolic landscape of its own.