Disorentia

He felt the admonition: new moon retired,
mail late, house gone up in flames, all
in his mind due to general hebetude.
His recalcitrance calcified, the angelus
recited repeatedly in his head subsided,
and he was able to thus jettison--except then
apahsia set it. Any world he’d known down
to the most commonplace propinquity
now averted him like a periphrastic cloud.
That gnawing appentence for clawing from
middle earth, chthonic parasite, eluded.

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