Ascent/Descent by Atlas At Last Lyrics

Crystalline compacting where rigor tends to settle in tetrahedron beneath my skin
Above, a licking from the chromophores, abundant and warm, in biting wisps they swirl and they swarm
When the crackling snow manufactures a mirror;
The repeated use of a face dissolves meaning

Don’t trust in my ability to internalize your geography
Trampled paws precede the thought of ever calling you “home,”
And the bites to the stone, embedded in bone, leave a pulsing landmark
Don’t trust in my ability to internalize your geography
I am frozen from looking down
The nose on an axis; the axis on a tilt
Paradoxical undressing, terminal burrowing, your trehalose blood
Paradoxical undressing, terminal burrowing, vasoconstriction