Scarlet Babalon

The curtain parts
The room is strung with ivy
A narrow stream of water
divides the floor

I am the blood
I am the body
Partake of me

Insects don hats and spats
and file to work in the
grinding refrigerator drone
How many are you? One?

I am the beginning
I am the end
Partake of me

In the drawer, behind the mirror
Under the bed, a hollow head
of crumbling pastry, sweet and sour
Now you are hunted
How many are you? Two?

The oscillation of constellations
A shedding of serpent skin
Pinwheel dervishes divide and multiply
I am blind I see all
How many are you? Three?

Dervishes pinwheel dervishes divide and multiply

the mirror grinding refrigerator
drone
How many are many are many are you?

Oscillation of serpent skin pinwheel
dervishes pinwheel dervishes divide and behind

the beginning partake of crumbling pastry, sweet,
divides the room floor
hunted

How many are you?
curtain
parts
the room
floor
I
am
the
crumbling
pastry,
sweet
and many
Are you? Two?
am
the
body
partake
of
drawer,
behind
grinding
refrigerator
drone
How
many
are you?
One?
Are you? One?
habv
Isects
Dov
Hagvu I
hm The
Bepin ying
dividkrz they floor k am thu
bodym Partmko
k fije
to
woqk qon
me
Inheces

jith
ivy
v naurow
hanc Partgce
of
Hw mnz you?

Now...
in the tunnel,
your eyes are regrooved,
your fingers amplified

I am the dark I am the light
How many are you?

David W. Aronson
June 2000