excerpts from Irene Koronas’ manuscript gnōstos,

NHC V,4

1

A duru with twentyfour 

circles studded 

with fireeyes

as wormwood  

for dyspepsia 

summons 

apollyon

2

Sulphur’s 

gofrit va’esh

in Sodom

casts

the eternal burn 

3

The ungodly horn 

reckons 

the new pillar

4

For reconciliation

a satellite crucifix 

5

Exploit the

transub

the hellas  

6

The birthchord 

thick with Iesous 

7

The idumea desert

calcifies the essenes

caique to caique

the profit chatterbox 

8

The thornmind 

9

(i.e. transmundance)

10

(e.g. that of the phrygian naass)

11

(e.g. that of simon mag)

12

This trilateral root 

NHC V,5

39  seven lines missing

11  for the epithet

38  i.e. the boundary

39  some coptics

40  and god saw

41  apparently the devil

50  the first three theories

51  a corrupt sentence

54  the word for obscure

59  election and called

65  akklesia 

       anthropos

       apokatastasis

       apocryphon 

2    a curious eddy in the stream

2    or restore to read [that are]

4    here and below [aeon]

7    monad monas

8    father (eoit)

10  the parallel passages

11  gnosis

13  metamorphoses 3-402-510

14  ponoia

15  lit. “his”

24  the five are pentas

       the pendad or quintet

       four attributes

       barbelo requested

26  spiritual intercourse

37  or, “and is the first angel”

38  or reflection “epinois”

44  cf. the delfic maxim

19  the text reads phragis

1     le concept de notre 

       grande puissance

2    see mental perception

3    see ancient christian magic  

4    when the first person singular pronoun

16  the food and water may designate

17  the text reads niahomoion 

       (in greek anomoios means “unlike”)

33  on one hundred twenty years, ef

       concept of our great power

30  the paragraph that follows

6    logos here and throughout

Irene Koronas is an extreme experimentalist. Her Grammaton Series includes siphonic, Volume VI (BlazeVOX, 2022), lithic cornea, Volume V (BlazeVOX, 2021), holyrit, Volume IV (BlazeVOX, 2019), declivities, Volume III (BlazeVOX, 2018), ninth iota, Volume II (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2018) and Codify, Volume I (Éditions du Cygne, 2017). Her extreme experimentalism has been published in Alligatorzine, BlazeVOX, The Boston Globe, Buzdokuz, Cambridge Chronicles, E·ratio, Marsh Hawk Press Review, Offcourse, perspektive, slowforward, Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art and Word For/Word. She is the Publisher of Var(2x). Her website is irenekoronas.com. 

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