The Book of the Wonderminds

 

The First Epistle General of Ruby Ashes

1. The Sweet Pain of the Changing Seasons

(brain ouch)

We lay like Lushington

Beneath Ruby’s crown of splinters

And rise from summer slumber

To her lips frozen winters

The summer and the rain

Combine her ice cool choices

And sing sweet sad disdain

On the earth’s breathy voices

Of the fire and the air

Her body held our water

Like landmass lost in mist

And autumns only daughter

Our white peaks of winter

And our summers stodgy troughs

One in the others hand 

Promising springs surprise loss

Of the day and the night 

When the wonderminds call out 

Loud as the fifth angel

In the sunshine and the dark

The burning and the glow
The fickle flicker is flame

The two faces are fire

Ruby Ashes is her name

2. The Love and The Pain

(mankinds essential diachotomy)

 

The only difference

Between the love and the pain 

Is one is the other

And the other is the same

The first taste and the last

Bumping hearts still beat the same

Mouths dry with nervous ashes

Our wonderminds are insane

The only difference

Between her land and our sea;

Our air and her water

Are where each other should be

Our handling of the meat
And our touching of the soul
Live forever together
Ruby Ashes plays her role

The only difference
Between our love and our pain

Is it hurts to be in love
And love loves to breed in pain

Our first stab and our loss
Pounding hearts still pump the same
Eyes wet like Ruby’s lashes
Our wonderminds are insane

3. Ruby Ashes

 

Ruby claims perfection 

We prove thus her perversion
Could we know her soul and shoes
Then treat her with aversion

Slow and agitated
Need Ruby to come to us
In doubt and in memory
Ruby comes without much fuss
 

Invade to surrender
Already red in black ashes
Surprise night walks our feet
Before bloody dawn crashes

Close Ruby’s heavy calm
An eye away like anger
Seems to be soothing our pain;
She moves us as a stranger

The wonderminds looming
Over Ruby beleiving
In the rabbits and the rain
And the lives we are leading

Aware of our power
Ravishing smiles of success
The mean and the tolerant
Dancing worried within our breast

4. The Fall of Ruby Ashes

 

Of the blood and the sun
Ruby Ashes tastes the both
An albino with feet of brass
And undead heavenly ghost

Sounding the depths of hell
Ruby’s music rises to God
Mans neat portable ideas
Written with flame in the flood

Ruby Ashes has keys
To both our hell and our death
‘I am the first and the last’
Ruby Ashes smiling said

Ruby is the people
And her wisdom dies with her
Upright man laughed to scorn
The east wind blows inside her

Ruby Ashes gone now
And we take a long lone walk
Down the empty corridor
Time used to fill with talk

The skirting and a plug
Mock wonderminds from below
For Ruby has gone out now
Leaving us stranger and low

 

5. Demon Bromide

 

Pressure of modern life

The fiction of abstention

Power to Ruby’s teaching

And the Bromide connection

And Demon Bromide comes

Angry if we drink the coin

Our laughter and our screaming

Bromide will bind into one

And if she takes our arm

Her fingers sound the alarm

Because ours is the danger

And Ruby is Bromide calm

And her hands and her hair

Tangle wonderminds in fear

For Ruby is with Bromide

And they know that we are here

And monsters from the sea

Count their horns in disbelief

Take Bromide to the blue depths

Leaving Ruby free to speak

Wonderminds are insane

But Ruby knows the angles

And touches our naked brains

With cancer and sweet angels

(inspired by a random reading of the good book)

December 2004