April 29, 2026

Thaumaturge's Periplus.Sonnet XXIII

XXIII. The Scorpio of Stygian Steel

From out the crevice of a poisoned dream,The scorpion emerges, sleek and black;Its carapace reflects a baleful gleam,With starlight dripping from its armored back.It guards the portal to the inner deep,Where transformation’s bitter work is done;Where old identities are put to sleep,Before the rising of the midnight sun.The sting is not of death, but of a birth,A piercing of the ego’s heavy skin;To find the hidden furnace of the earth,That burns away the residue of sin.He welcomes now the agonizing kiss,And falls into the velvet-lined abyss.

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