Bloodless Deciders

 

Detached
the host forms a vessel
in theory
hands of a quorum
 
bloodless deciders
theocracy vacuum
palms pressed
with fangs dripping foam
on backs of the neck
 
faces in the dirt
gnawing dirt beneath them
exposed position
ordered shell
waged scars of possession
 
arrangements
in the blood of god’s decay
wrapped in the womb
of state sacrament
 
given their bodies
tracking their movement
plotting their courses
on high
usurping
 
domain invoked
abstract manifest
of sacred derangement
siphon at distance
 
MM 9/2021