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28
May 10

Gift for the 13th Apostle

Well… you made a delicate impression on me last night… further deepened my conviction of your fluid strength.

Artemis was in her full glory wearing a sheer red robe through the city haze, and Zeus was lacerating the land with playful rage, or was it Thor?  But your eyes sparkled like a snake in the jaws of a wolf.

I have a gift for you:

I give you a box wrapped with exquisite handmade Japanese rice paper from the northern mountains.

Scripted on the paper in pure black ink are delicate scrolls painted with a brush made from the softest unicorn hair bristles. The scrolls are a language without logic, liminals into trellised unconscious cauldrons.

The box itself is made from aged and seasoned ash wood salvaged from the wreckage of the Spaniard seabird that brought the Black Irish ashore, bearing red black and white standard at mast.

The box is lined with handwoven Venetian velvet cut from the hidden Medici mushroom robe…still holding its perfume of teak wood and blood incense in the darkened chamber of illumination form that fateful night.

And inside this box you will find your gift:  You.

-Iliad Alexander Terra

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17
May 10

Beauty and Three Sisters

God's whisper, 1800 hours, May 17th 2010

a true story…

YESTERDAY:

God moves over waters, like a whisper.

In the morning a squirrel crossed my path, and stood in the middle of the road.  I had to swerve to avoid it.

Half a mile further another squirrel crossed my path, it stopped in the middle of the road.  I had to swerve once again to avoid it.

I was startled, this had never happened to me before.

It crossed my mind that if it were to happen a third time, I would take it as a sign.

A mile further down the road, while passing a road named Three Sisters, a third squirrel crossed my path, and likewise stood in the middle of the winding road.  I had to swerve once more…

Valena: “Jesus wanted to die; Judas needed to kiss him.”

Ilya: “Yes, and Pontius Pilate should not have suffered such guilt.  The Master was right.”  The words had not left Ilya’s lips when it occurred to him that his own “Judas” had liberated him, that he had carried his own cross…and that now at last the beatitude of the world entire had begun to grace him.  Inadvertently Valena had given him a gift, she had asked for light but ended up given radiance instead…

BEFORE:

Valena: “I would not have stopped to ask you guys for light…the last person I asked for light, was a person who was on the 12th floor in a meeting with two other guys in the only building that did not collapse in Port-au-Prince, a Creole from Chantilly. The energy that person was emitting was the answer to the previous question I had…that building did not collapse only because that person was there, not the other way around.”

TODAY:

I woke up early this morning to diffused light.  The blinds were pulled up and I could see outside.

Not more than five feet away from my window, in the drizzle, stood a deer, looking through the window… looking at me.

I slowly propped myself on my elbow and stared at her in wonder.

She maintained my gaze in that manner for nearly fifteen minutes, broken only momentarily when she lowered her head to nibble on blades of wet grass a couple times.

Mil: “It’s Totemic, in the rain, it’s clear communication…”

I: “Celtic, Runic?”

4 girls, 1800 hours May 17th

AFTER:

I deiced to venture out with the guardian of memories, bearer of witness, Mr. Canyon Terra, and search for dappled stars in the raindrops.  He feasted on moist shoots of tall grass…

I: ” There is no joy better than a dog running through tall grass…”

Dad: As he lay dying in his deathbed, with a hint of smile, “If only you’d be so fortunate” – 2001

-Iliad Alexander Terra,
May 17th 2010

Mr. Canyon Terra, Knight Templar, guardian of witness, May 17, 2010


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12
May 10

Privet Valentina, kakdila

What do you think a Mason, a lithe “Behemoth” named Valentina and a Neophyte named Alexander had in common at 0200 hours sitting at NorthSide Social in Arlington, the capital of the American avant-garde intellect?

Nothing short of revolutionizing the world!

She walked past the Mason and Alexander, and glanced at them, paused, “Dho you khapin to khave a cigaghette?” her blue-grey eyes twinkled mischievously.

Alexander:  “What adorable accent…Russian?”

Valentina graced a slight left-leaning bow, “Why yes.”

And so it began…

We spoke of […] and of this and of that, but mainly of a cat named Behemoth and the color of letters and Bulgakov and Nabokov and well…

I drew a building, and she drew a bug, and he drew […] all from ideas conceived long before we had met each other and, well, we drew the same thing…

“But there is more!” she said.  “You know about the two suns, right?”

“Are you Saturnine?!” I exclaimed in awe.

“Ra, and El…” she pierced into my eyes, intensely, then smiled and made light of it.

“You… — OMG!!! how on earth? – wait you forgot Is… but how – “ I recovered.

She blinked and smiled a half-crooked smile with a sharp dimple crease…

“It’s all about diamonds and hearts,” our Mason friend interjected.

“Huh?” Valentina and I exclaimed simultaneously.

He later explained to me privately the wisdom of 16 hearts and a diamond of light…  Oh how delectable…

But I digress, or do I?

Sweet Valentina, kharosho…

-Iliad Alexander Terra

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10
May 10

Three knights

So last night we three knights burnt the midnight candle,

Sires Iliad, Bryan and Keidawn.

We broke bread and poured wine on the charred fat of a hunted daemon.

We three fathers raised the dialogue and chose to sacrifice,

And construct an evolved RNA,

Bold, fresh and RAW!

For you see…

…blessed from the cauldron of divine crucible,

We crafted a Sowrd tempered by alloyed wordS

And Swore upon oath that

We each be custodian to children, and to their worldS.

And by the breath of the hidden enigma,

We vowed to fashion a Dagger and wrest the pearl from the Dragon’s lair.

-Iliad Alexander Terra

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18
Feb 10

All Things Reconsidered

Quantum projections of your holographic syntax,

Rhythms of the world,
Finding the current,
Play the delusion
When…

When…

Haunted by the idea

That somehow…

You’re sitting here
Perched upside down,
On a planet,
In a galaxy,
In a Multiverse,

Written by you.

Embrace the probability
Of the improbable…

All moments into one,
Eternity folded unto itself,
8 layers deep.

The entire paradigm
…about love.

You are a sparkling prayer…

-Iliad Alexander Terra

A Perfect Storm of Turbulent Gases in the Omega/Swan Nebula (M17)

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