"Mosaic Collapse"

Iron

stems. Cold earth.

Stone

will

remember. (tick, tock)

We forge the wire into the bone.

We count the seconds through the stone.

(one, two, three,

one, two)

No dawn.

Just steel.

Covenant of alloy and grain.

Covenant of hunger

and rain. Break the circuit.

Bind the root.

(break, bind)

Claw the marrow from the ore.

Step

across the temple floor.

(two, two, three) We do not ask for breath.

We calibrate the frost.

Silent furnace.

Deep meridian.

(mer-i-di-an) Yield the spark.

Seal the iron gate.

Rise

in the wire! Rise in the grain!

(break,

bind,

strike)

Neither flesh nor gear decays!

Covenant

intact! (hah!)

Root in iron.

Iron

in ash.

(tick, tock)