WHERE THE JADE TREE SINGS

NEAR THE TEMPLE ON HIGH
                   WHERE THE JADE TREE SINGS
           AND THE FLOWERING QUETZAL SPREADS ITS ROOTS
                STANDS A GRAVEYARD OF TOBACCO STAINED WHISPERS
                                               AND RUPTURED DREAMS
         WHERE MORIBUND CLOCKS
                                           DECOMPOSE
                              AS ECSTATIC EPIPHANIES
                                                       DANCE
                                         ABOVE VISIONS OF DAWN
                                   TO THE TANGO OF YEARS
                                         WHOSE LUMINOUS CHORDS
                        RESOUND THROUGH OBSIDIAN MIRRORS
                                          THAT OBSCURE
                                                               NOT REFLECT
                                                    THE THEN
                                                             THAT IS NOW
                        WHEN THE MOVEMENT STOPS
                                  TIME BECOMES SPACE
             ROCKS AND CRYSTALS SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF ART
                                                            AND LIFE UNFOLDS
                                   UNDER A SHADOW OF STRANGLED ECLIPSES
                                                      AND MUMMIFIED STARS
                                            BENEATH THE DEEPEST UMBRA
                        CAST BY DEATH'S UNCHARTERED GEOMETRY
                                LIES THE WOMB
                                                   WHERE MAGIC IS BORN
                                           AND THE WINDS SILVER BONES
                                                             EMERGE
                                    TO CARRY THE RINGING VIBRATIONS
                                            THAT ANNOUNCE
                                                               TO THE GALAXY'S END
                                                    A NEW GENESIS
                                             OF COSMIC ILLUSIONS