April 29, 2026

Thaumaturge's Periplus.Sonnet VIII

VIII. The Argent Altiplano

He climbs the ridges of a silver height,Where oxygen is thin as a phantom’s breath;The landscape is a glare of blinding white,The color of a clean and noble death.Here, frost-giants forge the armor of the wind,On anvils made of pressurized despair;By elemental furnaces they sinned,And cast their frozen shadows through the air.His boots go crunching through the diamond crust,Of snows that fell before the birth of man;He shakes away the garnets and the dust,To view the vista of the cosmic plan.The peaks are teeth that bite the belly of night,In a grimace of sublime and lonely might.

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