Gather, the does hath drunk too soon –

Blood of spires, scath of bodies;

Scorn is the hue of the Garden’s follies.

Selene, art thou the muse of the Flower Moon?

Bathe thy bodies amongst the waters, and bind thy mares across the tides –

Gyrate man’s sorrows, bind the membrane to roadsides 

of matter serendipitous through the hymns of the squatters. 

Towards the centre the herd stampedes,

Fine charcoal beaches forsake thy mind:

“Hymns burn the days before the fruit’s rind,

and in oblivion, art Thy rage a ravaging tonic of devil’s mead?

If Thy sinners turn to me, who will turn to skies?

Yahwah, strain the Inferno 

for the Second Circle – a salutation in the morrow,

Blesses lust into blossoms off the chin of my lies.”

A mane of lines to an ember’s beau,

thy sought the damned out from Splendor:

Prophecy, rupture slowly; become the state in which thy shall find her –

Revel under pyres through the reaping call of the crow. 

Luna, steer the waters to the Earth; flood not the mind but the heart.

Seek the Soul’s salvation, the very crux of the cliffside; 

Thy herd hath promised, the crane of stupor mares confide –

Tears confess truths Thy man deem tart. 

God seeped her arteries clot-stolen,

For the marriage of the nymphs foretold:

“The themes shall break slowly; the Soul shall grow old!”

In theft, “regress,” bind–surface beauty from the mold. 

Past the Fall: cyssan Lilith in thy rye,

Fortune are the inquiries in the Garden’s still-fold stalls;

Flowers sprout in seas, pass in captures of the trawls:

Arrive, Hymn of Eden – remember flesh in Thy sigh.

Written by Eden Mann

Edited by Emma Mutis and Elisabeth Kay