The Edge of Forever, image by AC Evans
THE SUBMERGED FOREST
As gold sunk in filth will
not lose its beauty
So, in England, in August
and early September,
You must render flesh to
flesh and forbidden
Elements of which little
is known.
At the Edge of Forever,
Circular currents,
including Scylla and Charybdis,
Are dangerous for ships,
even in calm weather,
Especially if you think
depravity is the way of salvation,
A Whispering Gallery where
cards are shuffled
With gestures both natural
and effective.
The world may have to
wait…
Meanwhile, we shall begin:
salt layers are deposited,
Consciousness recovered,
the forest submerged
In the southernmost and
deepest channel we can find.
I was struck by the
obvious pseudepigraphy of
All the Patristic texts,
especially this one.
Here, we decided, is the
origin of oblivion,
A steel-plated lawsuit
lasting thirty thousand years,
Extended and rearranged
through inner illumination.
Conclusions as to the
nature of insularity have
Since been proved
incorrect.
Depreciating the Cosmos
and anything else,
They crossed the North Sea
And finally reached the
coast of Russian Lapland
To discover the wrecked
ships and
The dead bodies of the
crews,
Together with the
Commander’s journal
And a map of The Submerged
Forest,
In the mouth of the River
Dvina, in the White Sea.
This forest was very large
and covered the
Surface of the entire
known world,
Elaborated beyond the Edge
of Forever,
Creating its own matter in
the Void.
Spirit is transformed by
knowledge, the ratio
Of rare phenomena observed
in cloud chambers
Where particles originate.
Survivor of a battle at
the ancient capital of Wessex,
At the confluence of
Nadder and Wylye,
He later conducted
experiments of this type
To save the illegible name
And the angels surrounding
the Virgin,
The male-female prototype
of turbulence and diffusion.
Cyclonic curvature is
obtained by stealth,
By killing The Stranger in
Eternity.
Momentum is destroyed by
the metaphor of sleep.
Vertical velocity requires
union with succubae,
Mainly as result of
interrogation
and heretical ideas of
salvation: notorious apostasy,
Relief from the pervading
gloom, from
The alarming appearance of
the iron wall of annihilation.
—AC Evans
