Not Because the Fox Barks

Ruth and Naomi at rest

In the people of their people

The desert is awake

Flicks its pale moon eyes

Cows and crows roam

And consume dead branches

The Lord is on the hooves

His vastness blinds the tombs

And Aleph broods

Creating starlings with brightness

And breathing planets and clouds

This is Terminal Eden

Killer of dreams

Of hopes

Of galaxies

Here the Gnostic Fox sets up his throne and stall

Docetic or just mimetic?

Dying or running from the ⲥⲧⲁⲩⲣⲟⲥ?

Or just dissolving like smiles?

Back to the Vast Aleph?

Or off at the drop to Amen Ra?

I am Aleph

I am Adam

The fish stream home

And uphill the sentries wait with ferocious spears

Practising thrusts on clouds

Clown with camels and jade

Sugar coy in the mist

Perfumes sour in her birth

But shining in shadows

Friend to histories

The Moon is with Aleph

Tucked under his shoulder

The Sun is with Adam

Tucked under his shoulder

Cain is with Aleph and Adam and I

Sneaking between my legs

Murderer

Sliding into my thoughts

Murderer

In between the sheets

Dreaming and waiting for seeds

Dreaming of rehabilitation or redemption

Can you hear my name?

Can you hear my name?

Can you post my name?

Can you claim my name?

I am nameless I am Aleph

Adamantine

And I am Adam

Pre-existent

Ashamed

And Murderer

The old man

Window in the room

Cracks open the face

He was given

Warface grasps burn

In ⲁⲙⲛ̄ⲧⲉ

All of them ϣⲁ ⲉⲛⲉϩ

Conquered hooks

Not because the fox barks

I heard of your wisdom

Not because man barks

Not because man howls

Not because Aleph stopped

Trains and sapphires

Clear as rain and Adam

Not because falls

Not as the fox barks

The legend was a he at sea

Christ arose in glory

A rose in glory

Christ is the Rose

And Murdered smiled and cried

Alone through the window

The cripple and the corn