Metempsychosis

A Rite for the Returning Crown performed in collaboration by Kerr Martin and Fable Wolfe.

Once again Substack’s limited formatting options have been a bane to our creative spirt this Collaboration Month here on Guerrilla Literature and the Avant-garde. Still, Fable Wolfe and I would not be deterred. For a ritual to be successful, it must be precise, and we have made sure that we maintained that precision. Join the circle, repeat the chant and enjoy…

The text version, unformatted, will appear at the bottom of this post.

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At the 27th Threshold

VOID
⸻[SPARK]⸻
Invert the hammer upward
[SHATTER]
breaking
inter-crystalline
dome and
[SCATTER]
pieces
gilded
alabaster

LIGHT
⸻[CROWN]⸻
Call the marrow
upward
[EMBER]
from crypt
and catacomb
[REMEMBER]
names once
buried
under
stone

LIFE
⸻[SPEAK]⸻
Thread the fabric inward
[UNDER]
in reflection
of the real
the true
[ASCENDANT]
over
all
unbreaking
firmament

FLESH
⸻[BIND]⸻
Circle salt
and shadow
[SEVER]
false halos
from bone
[ENTER]
breath to ash
and makest thus the throne

PAIN
⸻[SHEAR]⸻
From flesh this
edifice
blinding line of
[CONSEQUENCE]
to break
the mold of
[IGNORANCE]
a newly
breathing
indolence

BIRTH
⸻[CLAIM]⸻
House of smoke
and thorn
[AFLAME]
the firmament
thus torn in
[NAME]
and rising
newly sworn
[REMADE]
a
long-dead king
reborn again