Delight in its Place: The Endarkenment Seminar

No light? Then eat it.
Go down in darkness on it,
Feed and savor, host it
With a sacramental tongue.
Of essence, hunger's mute
Insistence makes a meal.

So hunger more. Be God's mole, and
Dive away from earth's rude light,
Nose right in and burrow to
The roiling planetary core,
The boiling-house of appetite.
Delved deep enough, cold earth
Is fire. As below, so be above.

In hidden quintessential love
Delight conceives in surging things:

         In its cave of chest
         The Heart in darkness
         Leaps against the walls.

         In its cave of skull
         The Brain in darkness
         Thrums with hot surmise.

         In its cave of self
         The Soul in darkness
         Blooms, exfoliates
         Trajectories of longing
         Longer than the eye can see,
         Auroras all invisible,
         A darkling webwork strung
         From everywhere to everywhere,
         And yearns to breed with stars.



Music and video by Scott Fray