Thaumaturge's Entropion.Sonnet 01

This saga, titled The Thaumaturge’s Entropion, follows a scholar-king whose quest for absolute knowledge begins to unravel the linguistic fabric of reality.

I. The Exordium of the Ink-Stained Throne

The firmament, a palimpsest of gold,Is scoured by winds of anemochory;The chronicler, in vellum-wrapped stronghold,Extends his grasp for eldritch mastery.He seeks the logos in the interstitial,Where silence breeds a fecund, dark unrest,And finds the mundane world is but superficial—A glosso-spatial riddle unconfessed.With quills of adamant and ink of bile,He charts the syntax of the stars’ descent,To bridge the ontological defileAnd forge a crown of pure enlightenment.But words are knives that cut the speaker’s tongue,And ancient hymns remain, as yet, unsung.