mysterious drone swarm

(aestheticneons on tumblr)

"From the point of view of poetry, the symbolist theater succeeds more often where verse fails to fulfill its symbolist objectives." --Ann Balakian, The Symbolist Movement (1967)

Abyss.

maybe i only dreamed we escaped
like dreaming i set the alarm already
to the half-filled urn
i bring dreams to abolish
christmases
as fever deliquescent
& more not many
& pastimes born of fever only
widderguess
in the rearview mirror perse cruise of tsimtsum

"How striking it is that in a poem written at the dawn of urbanisation there seems already to be a conflict between civilisation and the natural world."

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