And in the climate of dreamsWhen you recall her. when the world of the dreamexpands, wavers in light,when you stand at the edge of blessedness and sun,

Then we shall make you remember,shalI make you live againthrough the long denial of body

For you were first dark in the light's hollow,expanding like a stain, a cancer

For you were the shark in the slowed waterbeginning to move

For you were the notched head of a snake,sensing forever warmth and form

For you were inexplicable death in the crib,the long house in betrayal

And you were more terrible than thisin a loud alley of visions,for you passed through unharmed, unchanging

As the women screamed, unraveling silence,halving the door of the world,bringing forth monsters

As a child opened in parabolas of fireThere at the bordersof two lands burning

As the world split, wanting to swallow you backwilling to give up everythingto love you in darkness.

You passed through these unharmed, unchanging,but now you see themstrung on our words-on your own conceivingas you pass from night-to awareness of nightto know that hatred is the calm of philosophersthat its price is foreverthat it draws you through meteorsthrough winter's transfixionthrough the blasted rosethrough the shark's waterthrough the black compression of oceansthrough rock-through magmato yourself-to an abscess of nothingthat you will recognize as nothingthat you will know is coming again and againunder the same rules.