dormition and dominion

		in the mind of god the dead sleeping lie
		and the little cogs though unmoving
		hover over the turning wheel
		all life's a farce
		the broken bird is draped over the paths
		and paths and paths and paths
		and those who say this world is not
		the bloody gleaming paradise of blood and jewel
		lie
		opal and pearl bloodsocket castings
		ruby jasmine jasper and onyx
		chalcedonthrone and ambergriscrown
		golden green leafwork
		scrolled with the farstars
		pitted with the moonworlds
		mother alldewey
		arrayed with the twinkling lights
		the wovengold spungilded blinking godeyes
		the spearshafts of heaven
		the souldwelling rockhomes
		are...
			Dormition and Dominion
			Dormition and Dominion
			the mother is dead
			the mother awakens
			dormition
			she sleeps
			dominion
			he rules
			she sleeps and rules
			in her starry bodied glory
			the mother sleeps
			the mother loves
			Dormition and Dominion
			i wait
		...are the holders of the world and its dreams
		i say there is no death
		no death
		we have lived before and shall live again
		and again 
		
		we have slept before and shall sleep again
		we have danced through the shallow pools
		and shall rejoice once again
		to those who say there is no hope
		i say liars
		liars
		liars
		liars you are
		over the starry dancing stars
		there is a land
		under the sweatribbed brow
		there is a land
		and this is the globed world of the Pantocrator
		finally i have understood
		i have understood
		i have understood
		though when i slip sleeping and silently
		from this ribbed room of sighs
		you shall not find the history of his personal visit
		sewn into my linings perhaps
		nevertheless i have understood
		where the logician watches God hinge all everything on a die
		nevertheless: i have understood! 
		
		that all this is the breathbetween moment
		our eyelids open and close
		between is the land
		between the time i first was accepted
		in between your brightboned body
		between then and there and the time you wept:
		"goodbye my love goodbye to you"
		goodbye oh goodbye
		there was the land
		in the pearls of our heart
		there is the immaculate heavenly loveland
		in the middle of the forest Actæn is slain by his own hounds
		in the middle of the forest Eustace meets the crisscross Stag
		there is the land he has reached paradise
		there is no death
		there is no death
		there as the stag turns and smiled loved
		there he was takencaught by the prey
		all the flowers are blossoming
		and all the world calls to you:
		Dormition so you sleep
		Dominion so you rule
		Dormition oh you sleep mother
		Dominion father you rule