…and So the Futures Toll

Space wigwams

orbit

the white wall

city; mankind’s dream

stripped of men

mankind’s fate

pale in fate’s eyes – eyes of the sandy

girl, iron lids falling

shutters on the Indian light

of tomorrow; child’s visions

old man’s hopes

exact copies of brainwaves

carved in white cool stone

in the red sun

anonymous; lines of first dawn

as remembered through holy books’

pages… fatal warning

of the atom age

atom warning of the space age

space warning of

the stone age – one that’s yet to come

…and in the crystals of stagnation

wizards sleep; astronauts of fire

helmets emblemed

w/ slaughter

they came first

to new land’s shores

all new lands

were treated

equal – old blood brothers, the teachers

were forced to learn from the

new breed; alphabets changed

idols altered; crosses of cosmos mistaken for wood

and golden calves of their writings

floods, whose writings, these writings

all writings, dreams and visions

thieves’ visions

converts’ dreams, chains and fires whispering

tales of the voyager

golden plate chorus

of our era

era:

the blinding mold

of life’s oven; oh why do you see death here – death

fog white fog black

fog

our fog:

helmets of the coma warriors

veiled in pyramid snow

touching the restless lids

of a lady, I will name here first;

Slavia spreads the day fan, Slavia

names nothing

garden exists forever… underwater beings

chant for siren princess…forever

the futures toll.