Stack Carcasses - Intellectual

There was a great trembling

A dismembering of shadows

The sky closed its eyes

As the bright rains it swallowed

Wild arch-backed saber-toothed cat

Amidst his frigid boulders

Gnaws a clattering shoulder

Coiling, recurving vertebral column broken

A moment stolen exploded into a million

Then rebuilt again

The old hunger smolders

'Til the fierce flame flickers

Now let the smoke thicken

Stillness

Then the sound of water

The temple pond is rippling

Bark ripped clean from the xylem

As a quiet sign to them who pass

The last and heavy breathing

Dragged into the cold cave as it rained

Ink bleeding on a letter pleading

She said:

Dusk is falling son

Don't be caught blinking

He was the odd camouflage

The jaws in the shadows

The frog's strange song

The profane and the hallowed

The old chief seething speaking in a tongue none fathom

The junglecat's tactics in keeping

With the fact that I'm not from your city

I'm from the fertile land that your city's been eating

And on behalf of those speaking

A dark mist in the silent forest

Porcelain tortoise embryo found frozen

And a little boy holds it

Pedaling unsteadily down a mountain of corpses

Singing a strange song

In his tangled mind the chorus echoed through endless caverns

I came to stack the carcasses

And branch out my antlers

I came to stack the carcasses

And branch out my antlers

With alligator lizard sinister eyes to strike mantis

Prehensile tail woven through the sagebrush's branches

The sacred wind is fragrant

Sun dances with the cactus

Over many days of practice

My brain ate these mathematics

That's why I came to stack them carcasses

And branch out my antlers

I came to stack the carcasses

And branch out my antlers

I came to stack the carcasses

Don't be caught blinking