As/Is







6.13.2005


LINGTOM

The orator Augustine

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A noted Manichaen convert

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to Christian principles

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Bishop of Hippo and
author of confessional lust...

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.....searches in between
the beatings of my
breast for swelling love
buried in the chaos of constant
meditation.

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His spirit leads me to colour
washed emerald intersecting
a nude pink horizontally hung
on an oak wainscot

where victims parade into
the dayglo drift of a rose rotted
skyline

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And shadowed in the turning
flame
coffin ghosts squat in sillouhette
clotting the root knot vein of mortality.