Telesis A

Flaming youth of the Dominican sun

Espousing heliocentric theory

Of an occult mathesis boldly done,

Eyed by Inquisition Dysentery…

Plurality of worlds nourished his brains

And he fed on his strange, non-Christian god.

Holy Office-Science like Abel and Cain!

Chose to be primordial martyr at hearts…

Genesis B

Clay soils transformed to acid unheralded,

Citrus, groves, olives and grapes scorched by sun,

And Taranto plains suddenly sterile.

Foggic and Asiatic coasts shunned!

APULIAN, AQUEDUCT DIED OF THIRST,

HERCULANEUM AND POMPEII ON FIRE

AS WELL AS ANCIENT STABIAE LIKE A CURSE

PONTINE MARSHES RETURNED TO FIRST DESIRE.

Telesis A1

…And hard stools.  A prophet rash for true print

Via Gianbattista della Porta

Investigations Asceticism-bent,,,

…Of science Rome couldn't make him blind to vision

Of Copernicus school of enlightenment.

Legend says it was primordial reason.

Others differ: blasphemous pronouncements.

Genesis B1

Southern Apennines raged up in earthquakes,

And mountain landslides, the Alps' melted snow

Flooded the region. Apennines were baked.

Captivata dying like the Po!

CARSO PLATEAU: MORE OF A DESOLATE PLACE,

TERRACED ZONES UNINHABITABLE TO ALL

LOVERS!  SARDINIA AN UPROOTED CASE.

Telesis A2

Maelange of ecclesiastic portal

And astrophysics ground in the bowl.

Bellarmine carved a cold, grotesque frown

And decreed for that heretical soul

Petitioning recents like a bloodhound,

He welcomed the challenge, footed to Rome,

Transcripts must be in invisible ink.

Sizzling flesh, bones and ashes to atone.

Holy Den sinned again!: New old stink!

Genesis B2

Po Valley transformed into a wasteland.

There was a convolution of grapevines,

Almonds and figs unfit for touch of hand.

Mulberry leaves not even fit for swines!

THE SHEEP SEETHING! AND FASTED FROM EATING CUD.

ITS WOOL BECAME AS THIN AS ONION-SKIN.

UNEDIBLE MUTTON, NOW LESS MEEK DUBBED.

THE GOAT'S HAIR  NOW DOWNY, IT FELT CHAGRINED.

Telesis A3

The limitations of Noah's flood day

Or devoured by flames in their holy way.

Galileo shocked and took up the same torch

And honored him, barely missing the same torch!

Genesis B3

Biferno and Sinai: demonic rainstorm.

Mont Blanc rumbled from light dusk to bright dawn.

ITS NOW HOLLOW-LESS HORNS FILLED WITH MILK,

THE SHEEP-DOG TURNED ON THE SHEEP WITH FILTH!