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    Morphine addiction is central to understanding the work of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte. This is not a slight, not hardly; the stamina to reside in adjacence is a poet’s power, and morphine, as with other substances, is a great creator of difference. The addict poet, for a time, can be like Mercury — shuttling between the world of the living and that of the dead — a fortuitous personage for the act of description.



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THE MYSTIC EGG






March 21, 2021
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0882681281
ISBN-13: 978-0882681283
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
... And when the cycle of his sufferings ended
From an Antarctic refuge he ascended
Into the cold nude beauty of the night
Expanding, full of holes, immense yet ligh

So light that he was almost immaterial
Though strangely fluid—he could feel the soft
Rolling of earth that ghost ship in the ethereal
Abyss—then cometlike he shot aloft

And grew still more until swallowing up
Whole galaxies and universes he
Usurped the being of infinity,—
At that moment reality went pop

And in the distance suddenly he saw
The one whose dreaming is eternal law
Whose utterance fecund in the dark of night
      Is a giant Egg of violet light!