World at Large. Chapter. 1.
Part (2.)
i.
The serpent was once invincible, it could cross ice & desert & marsh until it reached a spiral terrain, which only feet could climb.
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O serpent then, spread out your fins, grow feet again & become the winged dragon you were before.
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Who swoops upon the human’s high domain & helter skelters kaleidoscopic into human dream scene.
(2.)
(i.)
Metamorphosis: according to the book of human discourse, what’s done can be undone.
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But irreversible & irretrievable loss & gain is the name of the human game, chaos.
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Who first discovered fame & then invented name & followed manically insane through symmetry, number & letter until finally written in the image where you remain in the chains of your freedom.
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In the metamorphosis of an archetype that in its twilight duality grows its shadows.
v.
Layers of time & erosion in the blink of the mind’s eye.
Robin Ouzman Hislop
ROH2012
Excerpt: World at Large. Chapter.6.
Part (3.)
i.
What you are in denial of, what you are in affirmation of, you determine only through desire.
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A track unwinds on the mountain rock.
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Where every fell, can seem as if an every-when waiting to invite you in.
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The lure is but an entrapment,
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Where the debris still tumbles from other footsteps that have expired before.
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The mountain rock appears like an uncanny sculpture set in an inert equilibrium poised to slide.
vii.
As if it could escape the dense foliage that would relentlessly consume it.
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Whilst you creature of central nervous system & brain believe you transmit the emitted events.
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Not knowing where or how but nevertheless a fluctuation guided somehow by time’s arrow -
x.
To seem as if in flight.
Robin Ouzman Hislop
ROH2012
