Gift from an Apple Tree

Waterwheel and churning gyre
Stained glass turning in the lake of fire
Snakeroped wrists and ankles bound
To trace the great complexio round

Now rising from the bitter brew
Exchange the eyes to trade the view
For scales’ and pinions’ twinned pearlescence
Enantiodromic evanescence

Opposing forces, single power
Encircling the central tower
Birdsong warbling venom’s hiss
Where adversaries’ shadows kiss

And demons dance with angels’ gait
On diamond lumens guised irate
Their fury marking buried love
Through burning casements, dives the dove

In inter-bondage, tangled trial
Abyssal exiles reconcile
The riddled labyrinth, wending time
As ciphering symbols’ reasons rhyme

The tireless mattering of the dream
A Lilac play of love supreme
Oceans de-parting, waves rush in
Toward where it ends and shall begin