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With one eye, stare bleeding

At the woman beneath the water:

A dove between the rocks, torn

As a red sea beneath the earth.

Argo, twining many coils

Around the knives of Phrixus.

The Temple within, a blind prophet

Who warned: beware a single sandal.

In dark delirium, stillborn smoke,

The Giving within Her arms.

A serpent's tooth – recant, recede...

Burning ichor in the Aeon of Fire