BM
L i n e n i n h a n d s — c o l d , l i k e t h e f i r s t s n o w ,
a t h r e a d f r o m u n d e r t h e n a i l — s c a r l e t a n d t h i n , a s i f a v e i n .
D a w n w i l l l a y d o w n a p u r p l e w e i g h t o n t h e l i n e o f c h a n g e ,
a b r e a t h o f w i n d w i l l f l u t t e r t h e h e m a n d c o o l t h e k n e e .
A l m o s t t r a n s p a r e n t , a l m o s t i n v i s i b l e s h a r p n e s s
s e e k s a w a y o u t l i k e a f i s h f r o m a n e t ,
b u t , r e t u r n i n g b a c k t h e s a m e p a t h ,
i t t u r n s o u t t o b e a c r o s s r o a d s i n t h e r e p e a t i n g s i l h o u e t t e .
A t n o o n , t h e t i l t o f t h e c h i n s t o p s a g a i n s t t h e w i n d o w ,
i n t h e n e i g h b o u r i n g y a r d a d o n k e y s t a n d s w i t h a l o w e r e d h e a d ,
a n d i t s e e m s h e i s t h e v e r y s a m e o n e a s i n t o d a y ‘ s d r e a m ,
b u t h e w i l l c r o s s t h i s t h r e s h o l d o n l y n e x t s p r i n g .
A c h e s t t h a t w a s l o c k e d f o r t h r e e h u n d r e d y e a r s ,
i n s i d e — f u l l o f b r e a d a n d s t e p s b e h i n d t h e w a l l .
A s t i t c h — a n a n g e l w i t h w i n g s l i k e m i c a ,
a s t i t c h — r o a d d u s t a n d a l i m i t , a s t i t c h — a k i n g , f i l l e d w i t h t h e d a r k s i d e .
S h e i s t h i r t e e n w h e n s h e b e g i n s t o s e w ,
f i f t e e n w h e n s h e u n d e r s t a n d s — f o r w h o m .
T h e t h r e a d e n d s w i t h o u t b r e a k i n g m i d ‑ s e n t e n c e ,
f i n g e r s w e a v e i n t o t h e a i r
a r i n g i n g s i l v e r .
A n d s u d d e n l y a f a c e a p p e a r s o n w h i t e l i n e n , a n o u t l i n e o r j u s t l i g h t ,
t w o f i n g e r s d i r e c t e d s i m u l t a n e o u s l y a t h e r ,
a n d a t t h e n a r r o w d o o r w a y .
A
Ahi Andrew!
thrusting his hand into the flesh of Kinneret,
he severs the refracted light with his palm.
Having trusted the wind’s direction with his finger,
he will cast nets onto the rocky gradient.
Driving a nimble school of mullet into his shoulder,
he will haul in the stubborn catch with a noose.
The streams of haze were divided into fractals —
three silhouettes of closed heads.
In the peaceful waters of the coming current,
by the cross’s sorrow, scraping the keel on sand,
two fish on five barley loaves —
the heavenly vault will break for the living.
No trace of stone on stone will remain
in the uterine tremors of the earth;
the revealed youth will perceive the omnipresent
binary, having set forth his palms.
Half a dozen lamps of young brides
will light the way to the sudden wedding feast;
the groom’s step in the cool night
will be heard by those who keep not the covenant in time.
By the Euxine Pontus, the moonlit path
will stretch to the very buckwheat Patras.
The sea’s crumb of the cooled face,
the drowned resurrected traveler Philopator.
The given will be transfigured into perishable child
as long as it is buried in the earth mindlessly.
The linen shroud hovering above the sky,
a vessel woven by the elder’s lips.
JA
Y o u w e r e a m o n g t h e m ,
y o u r n a m e i s o n t h e l i s t ,
y o u w e r e a t a x c o l l e c t o r
p e r h a p s ,
o r a b r o t h e r o f o n e o f t h e m a c c o r d i n g t o t h e l i s t .
Y o u r h a n d s k n e w t h e w e i g h t
o f c o p p e r a n d s i l v e r ,
b u t t h e y c a m e t o k n o w s o m u c h m o r e .
Y o u s i m p l y s t o o d u p
a n d f o l l o w e d H i m ,
w i t h o u t u t t e r i n g a s i n g l e w o r d .
Y o u d i d n o t w a i t f o r a s i g n ,
d i d n o t s e e k a s p e c i a l p l a c e ,
d i d n o t a s k f o r c o n f i r m a t i o n ,
d i d n o t s a y a n y t h i n g
t h a t w o u l d b e c o m e k n o w n t o a n y o n e .
Y o u w e r e c a l l e d t o h e a l t h e s i c k ,
c l e a n s e t h e l e p e r s , r a i s e t h e d e a d .
H a v i n g r e c e i v e d f r e e l y ,
y o u b r o u g h t H i s w o r d i n t o t h e w o r l d ,
m a k i n g y o u r w a y a l o n g p a t h s i n w o r n — o u t s h o e s .
Y o u d i e d i n E g y p t o r i n M a r m a r i c a ,
n o t f r o m s t o n e a n d n o t f r o m w o o d ,
b u t f r o m t h e h a n d o f o n e o f t h o s e
w h o c a l l e d y o u b y n a m e
d e l i b e r a t e l y .
Y o u r h a n d s l a y o n y o u r c h e s t ,
r e s u r r e c t i n g i n m e m o r y a m o m e n t o f s u d d e n h o p e :
h o w o n c e i n a c r o w d , f o r n o p a r t i c u l a r r e a s o n ,
y o u r h a n d s h e l d t h e h e m o f H i s g a r m e n t .
TD
From words that did not accept to say
imaginary resemblance,
the degree of superiority will be taken away
by a palm straightened into a gesture.
Light will strike the density of the flow,
tearing the intoxicating taste from the chin,
fire from stone will extract a hissing
taboo of the three‑part measurer.
Pleroma, braiding the poles of the medium,
as homogeneous as the eater to the eaten,
having consumed its own thingness,
turning fangs out of the lion’s mouth.
Agnosia of the soul in your garden,
the illusion of ignorance at the limit.
You will cut down the tree — I am there,
under the stone I also lie,
I am everything that came out of,
and everything that the beasts overlooked.
In (those) days you ate the dead,
you made it alive,
when you find yourselves at the nav,
where two are as one in their kind,
blessed is he who arose before birth
on the sphere.
Flesh that exists from spirit is a miracle,
but even more wonderful is the spirit’s acquisition for the sake of the body,
wealth enclosed in mute need,
like a symbiosis of apnea and Morpheus.
The Three‑God where gods rule as one,
but only there where there are two, or one — I am with him.
Measuring with a seeing eye through the palm,
through the soles of the reed, discerning the fabric.
With the womb fused to the twin,
to his dual nature,
placing a finger into the rib in the flesh
with the blessed faith of a blind man.
JT
evening — evening
light — light
chalice — chalice
trace — in trace
ablution — edge
answer — «one»
question — «not I?»
mystery — mystery
gaze — gaze
body — body
row — in row
treat — password
touch — sign
betrayal — role
deed — deed
brother — brother
gesture after gesture
silver — in cloth
transgression — vice
shadow — fate
farewell — term
name — name
point — to-the-point
lips — lips
night — into night
questioning — counsel
blood — blood
to the earth — answer
JZ
Having seen the initiators of thin nets,
he called the sons of thunder chosen ones.
Saint James with the scallop shell,
driving milestones into the worn-out eternity.
The shrouds will turn blinding white,
two camps will descend upon Tabor monovalently.
Clouds luminescent with suspension,
accents of roaring descant.
The maiden arose: «Talitha cumi!»,
the sobs of the inconsolable broke loose.
To the parched lips they brought funeral food,
washing eyes clouded with phantom decay.
The essence from the descending nearness cries out,
in the garden of the sleepless no wakeful brothers remained.
From the chalice overflowing with ethereal mother-of-pearl,
to drink fully, having accepted the covenant of fate.
To those asking to sit at His right hand,
with a mirror gesture reflected on the left,
he will draw a perpendicular line
across the shoulders that intersect it.
The wormy Herod with the ribbon of a blade
will frame his essence in living flesh,
immortalizing for the pilgrims suyu
from the Codex Calixtinus miracles.
JI
if (road.twists(uphill)) { shadows ++; stretch(south);
while (heart.beats(repetitions)) { by (in chest) { gives birth(knock);
}
entrance(into pupils) hosanna.flame — cuts with petals = sound
I circle.myself .strokes and outline a circle.
Shёpot.multiplies.by the structure of logic.fractal(of changes)
{ .crumbles by wave} flame temple.scales.of those who rocked(walls);
(input; if = i count up to 10, *multiplied by 3) {
ring.(coins like days); segment
}
of those fading — :?in dust;
silver in palm — into pocket argentum.
cry — do not touch
= but do { and did
bread-deceit(in hand weight);
} guard (moves toward the cry
}
void.messiah(into the night) {enters
anomaly — slope;
(but) signal not arrives — not switch on-harmon/
}
(I timecode == ya schemes error;I/O
like a wave) == vinoyu.sated;
but in the throat — cold.(sulfur)
{ .step; } (and.into forest);/// into the shady skete.
Night = (light);
«only *two** steps
, what decided to perform speed»
of lip touches_steps zigzag
(and) sparkling {…cheeks/
…
Lips — sign and == pointer;}
bush. (trembles); :.leaves(rustle);
echo: thirty == thirty{ringings;
// tree, loop and skip.
In the field.coins — into darkness,<in heat,>
bough.rope.clang -(cuirass).
knot(ate) air() — ring=different.
five, four:
3… 2… one…
JN
Reader of the Most High’s voice,
weaver of heavenly vines,
reclining on the breast, the son
by the nickname Boanerges.
The steam of boiling cauldrons,
the oily stench of fumes,
from the chalice flows into the throat
a stream of useless poison.
The battle of the rocky shore,
along a torn road to the edge
walk, looping into the depths,
a hermit and a sexton.
To him who has tasted silence,
who has drunk the whisper of the day,
the tenth circle will open,
creating a foreboding.
I am Alpha — the essence of Omega,
a sign of the identity of nature,
from the past they hold the path
of the future being.
Oblivion shrouds the chet
of the blind man wandering in darkness,
the light of oil pales
under the shadow of his face.
To the beloved mistress
and her young children,
the edge of a thaw seems
on the boundary.
My Gaius, blessed is your path
and the brethren’s monastic mantle,
let the incorruptible parchment
be a witness.
A cloth is thrown over the eyelids,
a sleeve is lowered onto the chest,
the winds of the hills will wash
the cenotaphs with columns.
SZ
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Two words containing a preposition
calculated your fate by a scale.
Sequential multiplicity
by a parallelogram
was attracted to the nature of the loaves.
In the chambers of the house of palm trees,
not healed, but risen,
the deceased brother reclined with the living
by the name of Lazarus.
The alabaster is broken and the anointing is foreshadowed,
the feet are carefully washed with locks of hair,
from Mary’s hair the fragrance of spikenard
was preciously borne.
Seven demons, casting down with the voices of seven men,
liberated the maiden’s body, streaming like a protuberance.
The palm cannot hold the weighty slate
of sinless judges beating the maidservants.
He who knows the Son knows the word of the Father,
from His seed the Name grows,
without ever asking the visibly perceived
justifications of the essence of nature.
The electrified pain of the raw earth
met your outstretched fingers towards it,
the destitute impostors longed
for a faith like that sprinkled on blood.
Incorruptibility, reposed in the memory of ruins,
crystallizes in the light like baths of travertine,
transubstantiating the ashes of the pagan world
into the martyrium of the eighth being.
JB
A V O I C E
O F O N E C R Y I N G
A V O I C E
I N T H E D E S E R T
A V O I C E
N O T
A W O R D
B U T
T H U N D E R
[water: flow]
A V O I C E
T O D E C R E A S E
[estuary]
[desert: locust husk, skin, crunch]
[Wild honey on stone, sticky, bitter]
[wind drives sand through the vertebrae]
water enters quietly, diagonally:
stand in the water
in fear
in thirst
[whisper, crackle of a grasshopper]
[sand fills the mouth]
Water
drinks
the voice
into a white field
echo:
[echo]
[and behold — the Mightier One comes]
[and the wind blows where it wishes]
VOICE
OF HIM
—
LIKE
THE SOUND
OF MANY
WATERS
BUT
IN
THE DESERT
—
[a tree falls]
[into fire]
[into ash]
[into salt]
[wheat — into the barn]
THE VOICE
FADES
[in the estuary]
[in the sand]
[in the shadow]
[in the salt]
[echo:]
…
[water]
[silence]
[light]
BT
The cover of the removed human texture
will fray the outcome into rags of edges.
On the hilt of imprints of amplitude
of frozen contractions of the alveoli.
About the banner‑like flickering of the stars,
givers of the magical standard,
the freed one of the underwater alcove
proclaimed about the treasured child.
What good is from the city of bygone branches,
with roots painstakingly grown into the ashes?
The mottled chiaroscuro of the fig tree
is eloquent with the mystery of the fruitful crown.
To be heard and seen beyond that
which embodies the rotation of gravity,
when the malakhovod (angel‑guide) of the heavenly messengers
will signify the two‑sided movement.
The source of the mother’s white blood,
witness of the miracle of healing, the infiltrate,
the cast‑down actant of the possessed daughter,
above the fallen temple the pneumatophores
of two silhouettes at the intersection of the rafters
crown the lair of the vanquished viper,
with words turned face to the sacrum
of the invincible martyr’s strength
of the spirit generating the furious faith
in the word piercing the focus of souls
disfigured by the flesh of bloody puddles
of the prayer service of headless heads
clutching a knife in their palms.
PL
LAW GRACE
POINT ONE. but light
WITNESS blinds
STEPHEN light
WITH STONES tears
FALLING pupil
INTO HANDS into night
APPROVED blow
POINT TWO. breathe
LETTER breathe
KILLS fury
BREATH dies out
IN THE AIR ashes
THREATS of a flower
BIND untie
POINT THREE. road
DAMASCUS dust
RIGHT horse
ARREST neighs
IN THE NAME OF name
THE SANHEDRIN Saul
AUTHORITY Saul
CONFIRMED Saul
[invasion]
BRIGHTER
THAN THE SUN
AT
NOON
POINT FOUR
YOU
WHO
LORD
POINT
FI
YOU
LABOR
BUT
AGAINST
YOU
TO
KICK
AGAINST
THE GOADS
[confusion]
stand up
go
to the city
it will be told
to you
what
to do
the scales
from the eyes
fell
and
I
saw
[reversal]
I saw
and
fell
from my eyes
scales
it is no longer I who live
but Christ lives in me
justification.
MT
Triplication of the name acquired before,
by heavenly gift will constantly pray
ransom of others’ roads.
With a mite gathered, tax collected,
by a thrown word, experienced
will take the opposite course.
Food offered for acquisition,
in the house of generous comfort
a bed and a round table.
Breaking the bread of humility,
the limb of saving rotation
will identify the outcome.
Will see the commandment of prosperity:
spiritually poor,
with mourners blessed,
meek with hungry,
pure-hearted with merciful,
creator of humility,
persecuted, cursing,
sacrifice saved
for you,
Father and Son
inspiriting
.
MM
seven.
hair
falls
not water
not world
it is seven
cliffs
a string
snapped
inside
seven.
a vessel
clay
red
shard
in it
still
one
and still
seven.
mouth
stuffed
with a scream
without
sound
a beast
came out
left
an echo
seven.
eyes
red
from
salt
from
shame
from
the gaze
that is
inside
seven.
fingers
remember
oil
remember
the warmth
of skin
seven.
vertebrae
after
vertebra
bend
to the earth
to the stone
to the void
seven.
once
the silence
of the tomb
hollow
by morning
turned
into zero.
seven.
a hand
reaches
without touching
a word
instead
of skin
light
enters
the vessels
and veins
hair
gathered
in a knot
the world
not spilled
fire
in the sky.
PE
The gaping old man growing into a chiton,
a yellow himation rested his shoulder against the architecton.
Having folded his fingers into a semicircle,
he clutched a bunch of giant keys.
Replacing the firmament with the sky,
having accepted the covenant with his forehead backwards.
The twin of the worldly name,
the rotten crown of seven fathers,
soaring above the city tower,
he exhorted over the rabble
about the contest with you.
A living shoal of smoked fish,
the ventriloquism of dogs,
a dead youth,
having swayed his cold head,
and a magus broken on the ground by prayer.
Under the shadow of the cloak and into the furrow of the track,
they laid the feeble in delirium.
The tireless lamentations of widows
called you to the miracle of recompense.
The bodies of the deceased were found aloud,
others gave up the ghost.
On the tenth day from the Ascension,
in the hour of descending insight,
the voice of the Holy Spirit, made manifest,
named in other tongues,
will be embodied in the mouths of prophets
by the right hand of Pentecost.
The unleavened bread dipped in wine,
of him who eats His flesh and blood.
By your word, the fervor of prayer,
embodied by repentance,
the link of the holy dozen
is reborn by lot.
The mute witness of the sacrifice of salvation
of the Risen One in three days,
the three‑times foretold denial,
the three heavenly canopies of the Transfiguration.
The God‑called Cephas, called by the Father.
The son of a fisherman from Bethsaida, the chosen fisher.
JC
I
In the beginning was
not a sound
not light
not darkness
but a current
through silence
stretched like a sinew
and the Word became
flesh
among us
and we
saw
not a letter
the glory
of the only-begotten
I
am
the bread
the door
the beast
the vine
the way
the truth
the life
and behold:
the heavens were torn open
and the Spirit
like a dove
descended
and a voice:
This is
my Son
the Beloved.
Listen
to Him
E
L
O
I
E
L
O
I
L
A
M
A
S
A
V
A
K
H
F
A
N
I
II
and the rulers gathered | and He was silent
and they spat in His face | and the veil
and they beat Him with stones | was torn
and darkness | from top
over all the earth | to bottom
and over the sky | My God
why | why
[fragments] | [fragments]
from the rib | water
and blood | and spirit
it is finished | it is finished
III
THE TOMB IS EMPTY
L I G H T I N D A R K N E S S
E M B R A C E D
H I M
.
IC XC
NIKA