There was a reckoning and an expanse. A legend is emblematic in another’s poem. Scholar’s test of acculturation, or how far willing to reach in realms of Thel. Seize. Cross a spiritual border. Rescue? Love for Thel? Kill for Thel? Change the world for her so she does not resist and finally enter once and for all out of indeterminacy—not exactly afterlife. And come to alleviate gateway for adherents to enter so she sees her own corporeal death out-of-galaxy adventure back at her. How many dimensions is Thel? Her name means “desire.” Where is she in us? What is time before birth?
There were several incidents
claimed ears for them:
understand birdsong
gift of augury, of Occult
what are the claims of the dead
but I digress . . .
a strange letter arrived at the office
worldly and otherworldly requests
old lovers
lucid dream interlude
Egyptian friend
migration narrative
hospital telepathy
Ptolemaic astrology
lotus as lily
“held back”?
nocturnal meditations:
kheirourgos, from kheir, “hand,”
and ergon, “work,”
a manual operation on the patient
an umbilical cord reaches to a vocabulary . . .