{"id":855,"date":"2013-06-25T16:07:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=855"},"modified":"2015-03-27T00:52:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T00:52:01","slug":"again-kneeling-before-anubis-lazarus-wept-new-refrain-poem-joseph-armstead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/again-kneeling-before-anubis-lazarus-wept-new-refrain-poem-joseph-armstead\/","title":{"rendered":"Again, Kneeling Before Anubis, Lazarus Wept (New Refrain).Poem. Joseph Armstead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lazarus\"<\/a><\/p>\n

… Truth is a mansion, a many buttressed cathedral, <\/strong>
\nNotre Dame de Despair au \u00cele de la Nuit, a gothic sprawl <\/strong>
\nof unending night where the light from a single dim candle <\/strong>
\nburns, beckoning, but the blind faithful do not see,<\/strong>
\nno one comes …<\/strong><\/p>\n

Armored in its solitude, it is a sanctuary built on screams.<\/strong><\/p>\n

i) Godforsaken and Estranged<\/strong><\/p>\n

At sunset, will the rain stop falling?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are shadows dancing across the freeway,<\/strong>
\nghosts of Promises Past, reminders<\/strong>
\nof All the Things We Could Have Been,<\/strong>
\nboth evolution and mutation, <\/strong>
\nboth supposition and deduction,<\/strong>
\nno answers,<\/strong>
\nracing to and from the recesses of memory,<\/strong>
\nleaping the gaps between ganglia, <\/strong>
\ntracing tortured neuropathways, <\/strong>
\nand as they slide grayly over the racing bodies<\/strong>
\nof personal destiny, they dissolve these seeds<\/strong>
\nof the future, leaving only quicksilvered ash<\/strong>
\non the road haunting the edges <\/strong>
\nof the map of the soul.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A soiled and dirty penny lost <\/strong>
\nin the dark folds of a trouser pocket,<\/strong>
\nFate drizzles across the pitted pavement<\/strong>
\nfalling from clouds stained <\/strong>
\nby disillusionment,<\/strong>
\nthe disenchanted deprivation<\/strong>
\nsends lightning down a dead spine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cold water puddles shallowly…<\/strong><\/p>\n

ii) Anno Corporealis: The Bondage of Flesh, Cold and Dark <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Dreamer, staggering under his load of Sins, awakens…\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Frightened, yet triumphant, <\/strong>
\nthe broken marionette dares to rise,<\/strong>
\nlegs shaking, atrophied musculature straining, <\/strong>
\nsightless eyes locked <\/strong>
\nonto the face of the Godhead,<\/strong>
\nthe inscrutable divinity laughing<\/strong>
\nin a whispery croak, <\/strong>
\nand<\/strong>
\nthe imprisoning cloak of flesh<\/strong>
\nenveloping the Dreamer<\/strong>
\nsplits and cracks, <\/strong>
\nunable to completely contain<\/strong>
\nso much promise at last galvanized<\/strong>
\ninto trembling, unsteady motion —<\/strong>
\nthe Road to Utopia <\/strong>
\nand the Road to Ruin<\/strong>
\nconverge —<\/strong>
\nthe Divine Source vomits forth<\/strong>
\na Promise of Eternity,<\/strong>
\na shop-worn brand of immortality,<\/strong>
\nsold at discount prices.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunset finally settles over the rainswept cathedral,<\/strong>
\na sanctuary, where each prayer ends in a scream.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\"anubis\"<\/a><\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

BIO<\/strong>
\u00a0<\/strong>
Joseph Armstead is a suspense-thriller and horror author living in the United States’\u00a0San Francisco Bay Area.\u00a0\u00a0 Author of a dozen short stories and ten novels, his poetry has been published in a wide range of online journals, webzines and print magazines.\u00a0\u00a0 A mathematician, Futurist\u00a0and computer technologist, Mr. Armstead’s poetry often defies easy description, but frequently includes neo-classical imagery, surrealist viewpoints\u00a0and post-modern themes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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