Proffer the holy ash To darken all To cease to exist Crags and clefts The shadow cast Elegy to this beatific Black and red The winter's warmth Of ash and pumice Make a grave For our broken trail To arrive at being all again To reach satisfaction in all To revile the earthly loam of all Our spirits have been exhorted Before the rosy dawn of white The desire of the sea with its thousand breasts Sensation of voluptuousness All we have burnished In times of despair Through days of sorrow Riding all alone Abluted ocean Our buried sopor Falling ashes Breaking into pieces Sacred fire Peering Staring Courses of stone Prying Gazing At the temple Ascending mounds to find Ascending mounds to light Our fires over this sea Our airs over this soil I am the wanderer, I am the soul of stone This is my shade of pain, this is my only flame This is the last day This is the last hour Of our Pompeii Of this collapsing green All our founts have dried up Even the sea has receded All the ground tried to gape But the depth will not swallow Out of glass coffins did burnt life gaze upon me All life had I renounced, so I dreamed, so I am