The salt-crust of the un-dialed clock
shivers in the marrow of a glass mountain,
where the Apophenic King gleans
the architecture of a non-existent hive.
He speaks in the frequency of damp wool,
tracing the Ouroboros in the lint
of a forgotten pocket.
Do not look for the candle in the window;
the window is a cataract of frozen light
bleeding into the liminal threshold
of an unwritten syntax.
The Pleroma is a hollow nut,
cracked by the beak of a stone ibis
that drinks only from the well of Acheron
when the moon is a silver puncture in the void.
We are but the residue of the Demiurge’s cough,
folding our shadows into origami boats
to navigate the ink-black silence
of the Tetragrammaton.
The key is buried in the word that was never said,
under the root of the tree that has no name,
in the year that the sun rose in the west
and the sea forgot its own salt.
Key Characteristics of this Poem:
Elliptical Syntax: It omits logical connectors, forcing the reader to find meaning in the "gaps" between surreal images.
Abstruse Allusions: It utilizes esoteric terms like Pleroma (Gnosticism), Demiurge, and Apophenic to create a layer of intellectual exclusivity.
Abstract Nouns: It overuses concepts (architecture, syntax, silence) to avoid concrete narrative, a hallmark of obscurantist writing.
Paradoxical Formulations: Images like "frozen light" or "sun rising in the west" challenge rational interpretation.
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