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I pray that I would not dream of mirrors
I would keep one eye on them uneasily
I feared that they would begin
to veer off from reality
or that I would see my face
in them disfigured by strange misfortunes
the horror of spectral duplication
their eerie cosmic pantomime
mirrors of metal and the shrouded mirror
of sheer mahogany which in the twilight
of its uncertain red softens the face
that watches and in turn is watched by it
it only takes two of them facing
to build a glass labyrinth
I saw all mirrors on earth
none of them reflected me
we are our memory
that chimerical museum
of shifting shapes
the crystal spies on us
everything happens and nothing is recorded
in these rooms of the looking glass
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Hadiqat - Procopia
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Continuous cities
duplicate houses in repetition
re-creating themselves every morning
the scales of their past
harden into an immovable carapace
a view from the curtained windows
nameless faces gnawing on leaves
devouring settlements
bridges and hills
devouring the sky
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From concentric circles
like tree rings growing
a meridian spectre
looms on parallel bodies
ranging on the perimeter
of late summer's walls
distances transfigure
like transparent dragonflies
extinct forgotten species
lurking for ages in lethargic hideouts
leap from obelisks
like gleaming basilisks
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Variations on a theme
the reader goes through them
like a figure in the carpet
the writer dies
with a secret left unsolved
the story ends
consecrating the discovery
of a repeating pattern
hidden in many volumes
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Pestilential weather
clouds blow out the sun
a barren mist covers the sky
cyclopean pylons
shapes of hideous giants
from the pale frame of the mountain
shadows advance
oblique solar blades
sink into the edges
of the balusters
from the inner temple
an appalling noise
lugubrious cavernous drums
an infernal lament
the cut off beak of the statue
opens into a grin
the god speaks
in growling curses
and the desert moves
like a slow guarding beast
crawling towards
the exhumed shrine
landslides pour into crevices
from ledge to ledge
a low choir of a thousand
swirling murmuring voices
sand flows down
from the precipice
touching the pedestal
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From this city
armies departed
some came back
now they are no more
we once had two tyrannies
incessant obloquies
in each everyday act
now they are no more
a man who knew every word
observed with minutiae
every part of flora and fauna
defining them for all time
writing with burnished metaphors
the vast chronicle
of tumultuous sunsets
and the forms of the moon
they are no more
they have never been
they will never be
from generations
ordinary vicissitudes
the eternal matter of art
now they are no more
what once happened
happens again ad infinitum
visible columns disappear
and the dream of one
is the memory of all
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Apocryphal enlightened figures
usurped the wiseman's name
inventing fictional works
and false attributions
to inflame the great star
with the heliotrope
to divine the future
with the chelonite
in an allegorical dream
Mercurius riding the peacock
consigning the keys
to his mythical dwelling
and a chest with four locks
that hid the alchemical mysteries
like the other key
to open the sanctuary
which somebody cast
into the azure
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Orrery - Crimson Hexagon
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A thousand wells above
a subterranean lake
everything that moves below the sun
is pushed by waves crashing against
the calcareous sky of rock
gods residing within mills
and water columns
or in the crimson hexagon
above the roofs
away from these valleys
the empty earth stretches out to the horizon
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Outside the chamber
into an interminable passageway
down a flight of stairs
into the library lounge
the other labyrinth
a timepiece in the hall
shows overlapping dates
between two hemispheres
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Searching through all
the 14,516 palaces
each one a replica
in every single detail
every inhabitant and prince
believing in their own uniqueness
unbeknownst of the existence
of more than ten thousand duplicates
in every room
the same setting
repeating
simultaneously
each shadow cast
by palms and statues
fountains and drapes
in every room
the same setting
each vase and pillar
each corridor and hallway
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Italian underground label formed by a collective of musicians and specialized in black metal, noise, experimental and extreme music. Shipping worldwide!
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