Angelic Syzygy

The dark intestine of the sea Swallowed a colony of moonlit bats, God laughed and threw a new Canopic jar of graceful waves For Set and Horus to quarrel over; God smiled again and the darkness Stampeded over distant green hills, Horus cried and Set fainted; God grimaced and the luminous Blackness enveloped every flower, Ancient cliffs and ghastly crabs remained Transfixed by limpid moonshine; But the pale owl wrapped its feathers Around the spirit of every paperbark tree; Victorious as ever, Pallas traced The eldritch mnemonics of the Big Dipper To the earth and Arcturus Rejoined in an angelic syzygy