Lucifer, by Camellia Choudhuri

Lucifer, by Jackson Pollock (USA) 1947

Lucifer 

after Jackson Pollock

fall/ bodyfreeze in midair/ the universewhipped face/ atomized/ loops through black/
a whirring star breaks/ starbreak/ starloop/ starexplode/ look how he pulses/ desire
and sin interfuse/ falls to an abyss within/ the moth to flame/ his drunken dance/
cracks the floor of heaven/ chaos/ angelic light/ fragmented through a prism/ starchild/

but o how fallen/ how changed/ star of the morning/ bound midair/ hellfire/ darkness
to throttle/ the flicker of a vision/ eden unfallen/ its leafwrapped comfort/ then
zoom left/ bloodfruit/ bloodrush/ the tasting and the falling/ blood of the father/
bloodpoisoned venom/ leaf turned to scale/ star of our mourning/ snakeskin deceiver/
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chaos in a canvas/ reveal thyself/ the painted descent/ no kingdom come/
temptation ungraspable/ universewhipped/ angelface/ the falling and the burning/ amen

Camellia Choudhuri

Camellia Choudhuri (she/her) is a poet based in Kolkata, India. She writes for both print and performance and has earlier been published by The Full House Literary, Quail Bell Magazine, Pnyx, and Queerlings UK. She loves singing with her choir, and spends a lot of time imagining what blackholes look like.