Preparation Of a Vessel

I held aloft two chalices
Cast them together
A prepared cauldron
A dormant offering
Stirred into motion
Ravenous awakening
Bubbling dissolute equilibrium
All-hungering effluvium

In reduced essential salts
I traced hateful mandalas
Afflictions arose from the boiling sea
Clotted in oil of aegean ancestry

Amidst the cloying clouds
I plunged my whitened hands
Steeped in thickening bile
Into elusive intangible shapes

I forced the formless into a form
Amassed the amorphous
Tenfold molded into being
Shackled to my will

I bided my time
And the moon withdrew
While the shrouded form
Quivered and grew

In a ritual circle of blazing heat
Vessel of iron for altar of skin
Coated in shredded flesh running red
I draw the knife from its sheath