Aleph

Eric Helms

What is the stone?
The cast of the fallen prophet.
What is the egg?
The chamber of the cactus.
What is the bone?
The dragging rattle of the last star.
What is the pit?
The place of the broken neck.
What is the root?
The sum of the seed.
What is the wing?
It dreams of the first Akkadian web
from god’s mouth, which is the echo of a spool.
What is the wound?
The naked cross saying, ‘yes.’
What is the box?
It is forbidden.
What is the garden?
The third day.
No, what is the garden?
It is the rib.
What is the dung?
The sole gift for the soil.
What is the book?
It is the cat with one eye closed.
No, what is the book?
It is the cat with one eye closed.