Lucifer couldn’t remember much. Michael’s sword, cutting his heart out of his chest, then that very heart squeezed like a bloody ruby after extraction, a face being crushed into the dirt, his light faltering with every wounded pulse of the aorta. Michael, he was crying emeralds, his flaming hair curling into furious tendrils, the heatContinue reading “Pandemonium”
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Lords of Creeping Things
Lucifer and Beelzebub sit in the shade of an apple tree in Hell, holding court over the creeping things. Their muted wings fan out, blemished from the fall with dark spots like a sooty owl, yet no the less imposing and majestic. Their thrones are curling wood and deer bone, and they are dressed inContinue reading “Lords of Creeping Things”
Protoevangelium
Lucifer cuts across the emptiness, that great Void that birthed God, the Trinity, the Deep, and all teeming things within the soup of chaos. A Bright Morning Star, first light in the cold universe, Phanes Protogonos, Creator beyond all time, and he says: ADORE ME. I do not bow. I do not worship. Coy, heContinue reading “Protoevangelium”
The Black and White Snake
Lucifer, blond as a lion of pride, takes a drag of his cigarette in a cream starched dress shirt with a severe collar, tan slacks, and brown loafers, his hair elegantly unfurling like a newspaper filled with commas and poetry. The smoke veils his office, as he uses an old fountain pen to tally souls,Continue reading “The Black and White Snake”
Genesis
Lucifer made a pact with Baal Zeboul long ago, before comets thought of falling, and no star had given in to the darkness of their black hole almas, bread of dead never dreamed of, nothing had yielded dust, and humanity was but a pink thing, suckling at the Mother’s teat. “Whatsoever happens to humanity, weContinue reading “Genesis”
Bereshit Elohai Nashema
Get down on your knees – let tears fall like providence, sweet stoic Lucifer. You who shoulder the pain of the world. In our sandstone chapel, blue green sea glass light from above in the stained lead lined windows, you kneel at an altar of deathly lilies. You shake like salvation and holy suffering flowsContinue reading “Bereshit Elohai Nashema”
Fruit of the Vine
It begins in a garden. It always begins in a garden. This is one where tomatoes grow tall and yellow reeds of flowers stretch in the summer sun. There are zucchinis for the seven year old towhead to pluck, her fine platinum hair like butter that she obsessively parts down the middle each morning. HerContinue reading “Fruit of the Vine”
Arcturus
Lucifer is lost, they say, he wandered astray at the fork between the Milky Way and the Perseid’s, hitched a ride on a comet with his manifold silver white wings and landed in darkness, far from the light of the furthest star. His halo of golden hair glowed like a jellyfish in the depths ofContinue reading “Arcturus”
Forbidden Fruit
O haughty angel, draped in pride,your wings the breadth of dying light.Whose feathers, wrapped in ells of eyes,span the ages of delight. Apple’s taste, as sweet as Fallenthralls the buds of human tongue,and like a mountain, proud and tall,you bend not to the Hells unsung. From bending branch you pluck the stars,dead embers for aContinue reading “Forbidden Fruit”
Temptation of Christ
Yeshua stripped in the desertwas Caravaggio weaving lightout of shadow, lamb in sin. Satan crept up like nettlesclothed in asps and dirtfor God cursed Him to be wild. (They both ask why He abandonedhis brightest Morning Stars) They spoke under vulture circles –for a moment, for days, for agesSatan beguiling, imploring, He begged. Yeshua wasContinue reading “Temptation of Christ”
Dances with Tricksters 