text || Daniel Y. Harris

Para(doxa)

salvaged from sediment nostalgia seeking our identity in those

who remind mentor threshes a clearing for jurant immediacy

of hubris self referential act of sluicing a deeper and more

resolute subjectivity it is through the clearing of the crass name

of ego dissolves some neonatal utterance that antedates word

conduits undrapes openings to serve those who reach bondage

of heart vigilance tenacity forswears every attempt to defend

or justify the tradition by appeal to various blue bogus canons

sacrality is melted into nonduality one merges or one recoils

the recoiler burns to dross left naked spinning in the void

the rub devotees possess a rarefied form of poesis second

order burden sculpts the key divinity wraith in the eyes of a

ghostseer proffers a grammatical lattice of tropes animates

and courses through the ether of megabytes delphic not brute

bold nor brave cleaving distraction like a nineteenth century

concoction of laudanum and wormwood drunk by a countess

with long white gloves hysteria roughs obliquity at this point

from the suzerains of velocity a spate of new eroticisms quell

the restless appetite for self hollow in spits of glitter and low

grade ore as sulfur quivers in a host of shakes and quivers

spread by mimesis and elision to stand for gross effigy and

simulacrum gross as eidos the image as icon to the pulpit

of simulated doggerel clad in robes paladins shun to meld

into an alloy of para and doxa lending anti its base crux