Preparation Of a Vessel

I held aloft two chalices

Cast them together

A prepared cauldron

A dormant offering

Stirred into motion

Ravenous awakening

Bubbling dissolute equilibrium

All-hungering effluvium

In reduced essential salts

I traced hateful mandalas

Afflictions arose from the boiling sea

Clotted in oil of aegean ancestry

Amidst the cloying clouds

I plunged my whitened hands

Steeped in thickening bile

Into elusive intangible shapes

I forced the formless into a form

Amassed the amorphous

Tenfold molded into being

Shackled to my will

I bided my time

And the moon withdrew

While the shrouded form

Quivered and grew

In a ritual circle of blazing heat

Vessel of iron for altar of skin

Coated in shredded flesh running red

I draw the knife from its sheath