Reading John Dee in the Bath

the primal word
reacts
to expansion

emotional flutters
within my ear

a buzzing
of silk wings

and muttering
of a gibbering ghost

a précis of
John Dee

proceeds
to the next
numen
perhaps Bes

therefore Lull
lull me
into an alphabetical
mysticism

count ten
on my fingers
and label them
B to K