The Cometary Script

He said,     ‘Tracking across space-time in their long-drawn elliptical

 orbits, as many Comets as fish in the sea

  are announcing their approach by a fall, from seven Radiants,

   of meteors, bombarding Earth with heavenly

    debris; myriads visible myriads invisible.’

     Copious meteors came streaking toward me

      like a driving snow-storm, grasped only in the mind’s geography.

      ‘Core magnetized by Sun in their elliptical

     revolutions, the “tails”, when they approach Jupiter, are frontal,

    leading toward a defined but indeterminate

   place beyond: Pursuing their course with cosmic intelligence,

  often, they re-appear every seventy-six years.

 They trail materialized spiritual Sun emanations,

and launch into the Cosmos, supersensible

Beings, disenchanting cosmic colours imprisoned in metal.

 At Michaelmas, from Perseus constellation

  descend the greatest swarms. Then Jove’s electrical storms announce war.

   The Dragon Slayer, Armed for battle, mediator

    between Heaven and Earth, holds sulphur, lunar Phosphor, in balance.’

     Following the stellar signposts, memory sparked,

      names whirled; the veil falls: Perseus-Marduk-Michael, the Sun-Hero,

      armed with wings of Mercury and the Memory-

     Mirror-Shield of Pallas-Athena, vanquishes Lilith, the Ghost Star

    and Ra-Al-Ghul, Demon Star of the Evil Eye;

   slays the serpent-haired Medusa from whose blood mixed with the white sands

  of the beaches and foam from the living waves, springs

 The Winged Horse of Art, Pegasus, between Gods and the Deep Seas;

frees frail Andromeda, fragile Dawn, from Night.

See his cometary threads writing poems in scintillating

 script: “purifying the words of the tribe”;

  drawing forth Earth’s passionate fevers, to cast them beyond

   the planet’s sphere; presaging return of cleansing snow!

    Messenger of the Third Sun, he bears the Pristine Son to Earth,

     evolving    evolving    until his disenchanting, bright

      iron sword transforms both Her and us    to Risen Radiance of Light.