stand regal
legally mesmerized
firm pillar of salt
one foot touching desert
one foot reaching heaven
who could
suck the salt out
hydrate mineral bones
who would
assault lawful creation
level basalt rifts
bring about paradigm shifts
so many imperial juries
conceptual cave paintings
impossible torch marks
proud scorches and scratches
stretching far
criss-crossing
middle earth
zonal relation to zone
embodied landscapes
diverted from oceans into seas
churning salty gravity
chloride in a watery spray
sodium washed and tumbling
humbling pillars of oxygen and hydrogen
gaseous over writhing seascapes
a vortex of water spouts
uncaged sport at play
frivolously tossed
expressly whipped into froth
mad hatter's gargling saline broth
litigious and judicially tried
penalties with a poetic sentence
evaporating haiku after vaporous haiku
remolding every crystalline day
I knew I couldn't stay
so I grew avian wings
flew high above worldly things
such premium eagle vision
successfully fledged and soaring
adoring feathered flight
akin to lofty albatross and arctic tern
staring down at long last
sorting lines of life below me
reality from confused delusion
latest crash victims
left wandering and betrayed
blatant congregations
displayed over time
like out of control stars
scarring every already marred surface
those masters of human mosaic
lightning bolts through canyons
storms rearranging high voltage
aurora illuminating untouchable galleries
never a prosaic world
credence eternally high up
teetering above sacred peaks
featuring eden's celestial love
teaching healing and hovering
emblazoned with a cosmic golden crown
atmospheric recovery
resolved with towers of osmotic love
reverently adorning amorphous glory
glorious choirs chanting
penetrating life with a joyful mix
adding each new residential line
behold every reticent word
unfolding mysterious stories
unearthed in forbidden dreams
digging reluctantly deeper
uncovering forgotten seas
discovering new leagues
regions of corrosive salt
adept in the apocryphal end
all that chemical toxicity
verily mucked out
such reckless thrillers
ninety-nine percent
global wringers
one percent
tillers of the sacred earth
sweet singers from birth
unencumbered by penalty
free of vocal fault
androgynous pillars
leached out of humanity  
consumed by miracle salt
mindful of sacred relics and bones
assuming every distasteful desert
hasn't classified and mummified
every faceted jewel and rarified gem
those gleaming golden granules
shimmering sparkles
deviance from crevasses and cracks
treasures in this drought stricken world
assuming distant heaven
hasn't constricted and nullified
each expressive swirl and twist
expressing largo and limbo
those misty in-between places
no matter the gist
how much multiversity
encircles magic mandalas
post torrents of cyclones
entranced by turbulent rain
tall pillars of salt remain
stand regal
rigid in this crystalline world
imagining another epic creation
every caustic vibration
each radical isotope
equations describing every chemical situation
constituents foregoing universal physics
leaving inscriptions on cave walls
prescribing cosmic and divine maturation

 

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