#522 - tunnel at the end of the light

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tunnel at the end of the light

getting through the Bible

for godsbother

 

where’s mum and the finger follows along?

 

tree either end

that was the forest

and we live the fire

get through

some do

 

eye for an ear or other bit

 

fair to say that the way you know isn’t

that goes for the names too

 

cleansing blood up

grew a lopsided limp along

here’s dusty old Gilgamesh

villages gone

 

clap your hands

and steadfast

 

you begin without reading a word

hence visitations

pictures on the walls of the dream

toenail on a palanquin

generations of adore and die

 

genitals thereof and guess which fruit ?

 

incline your ear

set me as seal upon your

hear this all peoples

then shall the lame man leap like a hart

 

just a draft

it’s not the instruction manual

I would kiss you none would

 

I was a wall

 

annointed king over

then there is forsaken

there’s footstool

fools shall not err within

 

in the eleventh year, first month, seventh day

the Nile is mine and I made it

fifty thousand of their camels

two thousand asses

two hundred and fifty thousand sheep

 

render to walk upon

loaves fishes wine

 

the station clock’s gone

and the destination boards

 

Nebachudnezzar pops in just for the spelling bee

 

all things new

and you must be

 

the fig puts forth its figs

and come along with

hello hello

 

shall I compare thee to a mare?

shorn teeth, up from the brush

 

nothing in here rhymes

we wear away the tune

 

you find yourself asking

 

pages these are of another beginning

 

whiff of superstition

back again reading

 

wings dark

angels take a tumble just before the siren

 

all beardthrone pale approximate

the Bible is a mighty pile

 

here are vengeance and spite

have I mentioned how graceful the hooves?

 

come pharisees, samaritans

load up everyone

a rising tide floats just one boat

send out a dove

think olive

fat fed beasts

things done for the sake of the kingdom of heaven

 

then there’s seeing nakedness

and when the water in the skin was gone

she went and filled

someone said

then this was the vision

that very night

parted seas

 

make mine apocrypha

 

carved the middle out just to hide a key

many and many have sought refuge

caught fire in the book, scribing

 

noble fourfold

let’s have Mithra

by Jupiter

Highway 61

and when they had crossed over

pharaoh’s mobe phut

and shutupshop

 

cast out this

let forth

wherever does it say ‘lo and behold’?

 

each testament to its own lamp

(light under bushel – barn soon ablaze)

 

that year was it – whose numbers?

and render unto

 

the moving finger, as such

by quinquereme

burnished barge, so on

 

who did the wailing?

who had a gnash?

 

sun goes yo yo

nothing new there

vanities!

ministers of grace give ear and counsel announcing

something very special

(seraphim, cherubim)

a judgement seat!

 

here’s covenant ark

and ladder in pyjamas

 

where’s Jason when that rotted plank fell?

   and so much for siesta

here’s Icarus, that flighty fool

 

crusades!

 

oh merciful, on Bouraq

wield a righteous sword

inquisition later

 

three wise swaddling donkey

suddenly you’re a salty pillar

always look ahead!

 

drop the tablets

pick up sticks

obey my commandments

(tally first)

 

many coloured undies

trust, betrayal, ashflight

 

now, which plague were we about?

 

take manna

 

best dwell in the garden

pile up the spice

 

hard pull fessing up

take it from me

dirge, plainsong, hymn, carol

a cot for mercy mild to look in

and in my most beautiful heart for a visit

it’s the truth that sets you free

 

really started something back then

 

lily and valley

mandrakes give forth

there will I

let us into the fields

no thirst will quench such love