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Daylight as a Psalm

from The Lion's Face by Tim Van Dyke & Brian Howe

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Everything that wishes to speak
in that place where meaning should be
where sex should occur
where words point to
and where others think it to be – there is nothing—
Seduction flows beneath the obscenity of speech
the lion’s face flows in the daylight as a psalm
and in the night as a deaf mountain—
the void— that hole burned out by the return of the flame
beneath the golden onslaught of cities piled on top of each other
The lion’s face is raised up above and below, at all points
the solar visibility of a singular hatred drifting in the forests of Hades
the visible love of an insanity borne by a vertiginous absence
inscribed in stone or the sky, or in one's heart
It is what touches us first, before the sentences
arrive, in the time it takes for them to fall away
It is a power of attraction and distraction
It is a power of absorption and fascination
a power of defiance
an escalation of violence and grace
a black Cash fucking the modem menses chorus
The lion’s face—The lion’s face—The lion’s face—The lion’s face
at the foot of stammering
that mythic scent
simply the epicenter
of death
The lion’s face from which subtle fragrances emerge
in an instantaneous passion that exhausts itself in the dead
The lion’s face crossbreeding germs of an ardent song
tipped in the sickness of flesh the color of granite
The lion’s face a “refusal to accept the single, individuated body”—
so we seduce and are seduced by our deaths,
by our vulnerability, with the void that haunts us—
we are “spokesmen of oblivion knotting and unknotting”
we are circle jerks, gene defoliators, dervish sticks whirling
in a stream of furious piling tumors and appalling dreams—
we are reliquaries for the siren song hissing out of every aperture
and snapping at the boundaries of desire
for the dead are only dead when there are no longer any echoes
to seduce them, and no longer any rites to challenge them to exist

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from The Lion's Face, released November 10, 2012
Words & voice: Tim Van Dyke // Music: Brian Howe

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