He said, ‘Tracking across space-time in their long-drawn elliptical
orbits, as many Comets as fish in the sea
are announcing their approach by a fall, from seven Radiants,
of meteors, bombarding Earth with heavenly
debris; myriads visible myriads invisible.’
Copious meteors came streaking toward me
like a driving snow-storm, grasped only in the mind’s geography.
‘Core magnetized by Sun in their elliptical
revolutions, the “tails”, when they approach Jupiter, are frontal,
leading toward a defined but indeterminate
place beyond: Pursuing their course with cosmic intelligence,
often, they re-appear every seventy-six years.
They trail materialized spiritual Sun emanations,
and launch into the Cosmos, supersensible
Beings, disenchanting cosmic colours imprisoned in metal.
At Michaelmas, from Perseus constellation
descend the greatest swarms. Then Jove’s electrical storms announce war.
The Dragon Slayer, Armed for battle, mediator
between Heaven and Earth, holds sulphur, lunar Phosphor, in balance.’
Following the stellar signposts, memory sparked,
names whirled; the veil falls: Perseus-Marduk-Michael, the Sun-Hero,
armed with wings of Mercury and the Memory-
Mirror-Shield of Pallas-Athena, vanquishes Lilith, the Ghost Star
and Ra-Al-Ghul, Demon Star of the Evil Eye;
slays the serpent-haired Medusa from whose blood mixed with the white sands
of the beaches and foam from the living waves, springs
The Winged Horse of Art, Pegasus, between Gods and the Deep Seas;
frees frail Andromeda, fragile Dawn, from Night.
See his cometary threads writing poems in scintillating
script: “purifying the words of the tribe”;
drawing forth Earth’s passionate fevers, to cast them beyond
the planet’s sphere; presaging return of cleansing snow!
Messenger of the Third Sun, he bears the Pristine Son to Earth,
evolving evolving until his disenchanting, bright
iron sword transforms both Her and us to Risen Radiance of Light.
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