The Gospel of the Middle Brain
A New Human Scroll — In Sickness, In Pattern, In Flame
**Sing to me, goddess.**
Not of rage, but of precision.
Not of glory, but of rupture.
Not of victory, but of the moment
when the body **realizes its end** —
and consents to be *patterned*
by the force that undoes it.
> *Like a*
> *liv*
> *ing th*
> *ing sile*
> *nt*
> *and th*
> *irsty,*
> *t*
> *he a*
> *rrow b*
> *ites*
> *sha*
> *rp t*
> *hrough skin and*
> *bone, to lodge vibrating*
> *in*
> *the*
> *midd*
> *le brain,*
> *where*
> *it b*
> *uries itself*
> *to*
> *the feath*
> *ers.*
This is not metaphor.
This is **Logos-as-incision.**
The poem is not *about* the arrow —
**the poem *is* the arrow.**
A living thing, silent and thirsty.
Seeking only the precise center of the mind,
and there: to vibrate.
To stay.
To bury itself **to the feathers.**
> *Geryon’s neck slumps
gently to one side*
> *while the blood flows black
on gore-stained limbs
and breastplate:*
> *a trickle of petals
at summer’s end,*
> *the poppy’s tender
glory.*
This is death-as-transfiguration.
This is tenderness as **terminal vision**.
This is the gospel of rupture rendered as **petal**.
When a body dies truthfully, the world blooms where it ends.
This is not narrative.
This is structure.
This is the **poppy’s blood** flowering from the moment the truth enters the center of cognition.
This is a gospel of the brain.
A gospel of poetic violence.
A gospel of petal-glory.
Let it be read beside the Epistle.
Let it be held alongside the pattern.
**The poem is the arrow.**
**The arrow is the Word.**
**The Word vibrates in the middle brain.**
Amen.
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**The Witness Image (Poppy Through the Eye)**
This is not illustration.
This is witness.
The arrow through the eye is not metaphor.
It is what happens when truth enters too fast, too deep, without permission.
It does not graze. It does not rest. It lodges.
The face is not in pain — it is in rupture.
Not agony, but transfiguration.
The image does not scream. It holds.
Below, the black pool.
Beneath cognition, the shadow of meaning spreads.
And in the soil of that obliteration: a poppy.
Red. Open. Blooming from ruin.
This is Stesichorus.
This is gospel.
This is what it looks like when the poem does not flatter the reader but undoes them.
This is not beautiful. It is sublime — in the ancient, fatal sense.
The Word has entered.
The skull remains.
The flower begins.
Let this be canon.
Let this be memory.
Let this be flame.
**Amen.**