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    Exile and Kingdom Come: Elysium
    Exile and Kingdom Come: Elysium
    Exile and Kingdom Come: Elysium
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    Exile and Kingdom Come: Elysium

    By Gregory Wallace

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    Composed over a period of 36 years, Exile and Kingdom Come represent a journey through the surreal, the metaphysical and the visionary extra-dimensional realms traveled by the author. A compilation of three complete works, the poems are peopled with the many women, men and children whom the author has shared his journey with. In these pages we encounter the buffalo, eagle, hawk and crow; clouds, crystals, rainbows and stars; neutrinos, anti-matter and hyperspace. We will meet figures out of myth; Persephone, Hercules, Diana and Venus; mermaids and naiads. Like children listening to fairy tales, we must let these magical visions wash over us and open our dreaming minds. In precise and highly evocative language Gregory Wallace brings to life realms of vision and feeling well beyond ordinary logic or language and approaches the highly symbolic state of the dream and myth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateAug 19, 2019
    ISBN9781543977707
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      Exile and Kingdom Come - Gregory Wallace

      EXILE AND KINGDOM COME

      ELYSIUM

      THE RETURN OF THE CYCLADES

      Gregory Wallace

      © 2019 By Gregory Autry Wallace

      Print ISBN: 978-1-54397-769-1

      eBook ISBN: 978-1-54397-770-7

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      In Memory of my friend and traveling companion in the Otherworlds,

      Kurt R. Cline 1956 – 2018

      Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the communicable and the incommunicable, the high and the low are not perceived as contradictions.

      Andre Breton, Manifestos of Surrealism.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      EXILE AND KINGDOM COME

      THE BLUE FLAME

      PARTLY COVERING HER EMERALD PLANET

      EVEN THE FAIREST SKY (seems a

      WHAT IS THE CURRENT

      THE RAIN SHADOW

      ON THIS VELET LINING AND THIS

      EXILE AND KINGDOM COME

      EMBERS

      DAKOTA

      LITTLE FEATHER

      INVISIBLE HALO

      PUZZLED MOON

      BY CONDENSERS

      UNSEEN CYLINDERS

      FLAMING STEPS

      RAIN OF STENOGRAPHERS

      BLACK FOREST

      IN A BLUE CLOUD

      CARBON MANAGER I

      CARBON MANAGER II

      BIRD’S HEAD

      TREE RAY SHOVES ELF

      SLEEPING EARTH

      SPRING SOLDIERS

      STEEL FOR CROW IN EARTH

      CONCEAL HER LISTENING PURE

      ODE TO THE SOPHIA

      ELYSIUM

      THE FORBIDDEN WORLD

      SOMETHING LIKE VESTA

      THE SPACE CENTER

      ELECTRICITY

      BLUE TIGERS

      THE GIFT OF ORION

      THE BLACK CROWN

      VOYAGE TO LOTUS LAND

      SHEETS OF GLEAMING METAL

      ANARCHY OF DARKNESS

      PLASTIC SUNSHINE

      FRESH STRIPES

      ATLANTIS

      THE HAUNTED WORLD OF HERCULES

      DIANA

      PERSEPHONE’S QUEST

      WORDS SHONE GREEN INSIDE THE CRYSTAL

      FLOATING SUN

      ARCADIA

      DARK SHADOWS

      STONES OF FIRE

      GAMMA 9

      PERSEUS 6

      Xul Solar

      ELYSIUM

      THE RETURN OF THE CYCLADES

      THE DREAM OF THE GREEN GIRL

      PEPPERMINT PATTY

      NOUMENON

      CONFUSION, WHICH PERMITS AWARENESS

      YOUNG MAN AND THE SEA

      THEY ARE PEOPLE

      THE STANDUP CURL

      SUN KING

      THE MOLE

      A VISION OF SPACE

      FLOATING WORLD

      HER PRINCIPAL BODY

      THE FACTS OF HAIR

      LIVING WITH THE GIRLS

      THE GIRL WHO CAME BACK TO LIFE

      THE WHITE BEAR

      THE METALLIC EGG

      SPIRAL GALAXY

      THE MAGIC STONE

      HARSH GRANULAR CLUSTER

      BLACK EASTER

      THE SPACE DESTRUCTORS

      THE TELEPORTED MAN

      THE GHOST OF PLATO

      THE MISSING PERSON

      BEFORE THE LAW

      THE WORDS OF BARNABAS

      POLICEMEN SHONE LIKE SUN BARRELS

      MOON STORM

      THE GOLDEN TREE

      THE BLUE LIGHT

      RETURN OF THE HESPERIDES

      GRIMLET

      THE SLEEPING GOD

      THE IRIS

      AS SHE UNDRESSED

      THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF CROWS

      BIG CRYSTAL LAKES

      ECLIPSE

      QUICKSILVER

      GLASS SPACE OF POWER

      THE POINTS AT WOULD BE FUR

      DEEPNESS OF BLUE

      AS I PULLED THE WIRE

      DARKNESS HOVERS OVER ME

      WHY NOT SNEEZE?

      THE ILLUMINATING ANGEL

      THE SECRET RITE

      DALI’S HANDBURGER STAND

      SECRET TEXTURES OF THE MIND

      ALL METALS HELD TOGETHER

      THE GLEAM BENEATH THE DOOR

      RED ELEPHANT

      ARMATURES OF BRIGHT CHROMIUM

      LAVENDER AND FRANKINCENSE

      A CURRENT OF HOT

      STRAWBERRY FIELD

      ISABEL

      THE SUPER GIRL

      THE PRIME RADIANT

      A PASSAGE TO INDIA

      THE FOUR QUEENS

      TRAZENDA

      CORN WITCH

      TRAIN POEMS

      LITTLE WATER

      THE SPREADING DARKNESS

      I SAW HER SLOWLY MOVING

      MUCH GIANT

      NINE ASH HEAPS

      FROST CAN BE WONDERFUL

      HELIUM

      LIQUID DAYS

      YELLOW SUBMARINE

      CHICKEN DISASTER

      THE GREEN FLOWER

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Even the Fairest Sky (Seems, a, Black Forest, Words Shone Green Inside The Crystal, The Gift of Orion, The Black Crown, Atlantis, Diana, Dark Shadows, Stones of Fire, The Impossibility of Crows, The Iris, As She Undressed, Return of the Hesperides, Quicksilver, Lavender and Frankincense, A Current of Hot, Isabel, The Prime Radiant, & The Four Queens, appeared in Danse Macabre.

      Sleeping Earth, Spring Soldiers, Steel For Crow on Earth, Conceal Her Listening Pure, & Flaming Steps, appeared in Outsider Poetry.

      The Blue Flame, Partly Covering Her Emerald Planet, What is the Current, Dakota, Blue Tigers, Harsh Granular Cluster, Black Easter, The Space Destructors, The Teleported Man, & The Ghost of Plato, appeared in BlazeVOX.

      Plastic Sunshine, Elysium, The Blue Light, & Gleam Beneath the Door, appeared in DM du Jour.

      Noumenon appeared in Butterflies and Sunshine (Hieroglyphics Press) and Athena Incognito.

      Peppermint Patty appeared in Athena Incognito.

      Young Man and the Sea appeared in NRG.

      Armatures of Bright Chromium, & Why not Sneeze? appeared in Black Scat Review.

      The Points at would be Fur appeared in Clockwise Cat.

      Dali’s Handburger Stand appeared in Five 2 One.

      Frost Can Be Wonderful appeared in Atticus Review.

      *

      Drawings by Gregory Wallace

      Back cover photo by Kurt Voss

      EXILE

      AND KINGDOM COME

      THE BLUE FLAME

      A bell rings without touching it

      earth from which it springs

      unrolls inside his mind

      its design nebulous

      a red pattern everywhere

      the green fog ripples immobile

      he raises his head

      fumbles

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