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The Books of Angelhaunt
Volume II


is now available from Amazon.com.

In the final four Angelhaunt books, Jason Stuart Ratcliff further develops the role of the artist as prophet.

482 pages
$23.95

There is no need to read Volume I first.




These final four Angelhaunt books are at once philosophy and works of art. Ratcliff has created in these four books both poetry and religion, both blasphemy and a completely original cosmology. Ratcliff has looked into himself, found both treasures and terrors, and made works only a madman could create.



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*There is no need to read Volume I first.*

Volume II includes:

Portraits
Ahab in Three Acts: an apocalypse
The Dream Project: a sequence
Legal Impossibility: a cosmology


*I am offering the full texts of all Books of Angelhaunt online right here. The copies for sale at Amazon and elsewhere are for those who wish to read them comfortably on a couch instead of on the computer.*


Here is the full text of

The Dream Project:
a sequence

[I have known your frothy horses]    [We tried to catch him]    [He has gone and plundered the treasures]    [I will make plain the mysterious]    [But what are these hooks and chains?]    [He is the horned and hoofed one]    [I wander the rooms]    [Denver is the lonesome place where]    [He was lying on his back paralyzed]    [He had another dream]    [We have begun describing]    [What shall we say of him?]    [I thought he was some sort of monster]    [The winds come]    [There is always great danger]    [She holds a handful of stars]    [That giant lobster]    [Aliens come to me in the forms]    [That was why there were no ants]    [He comes forth from the sea]    [Did you see it?]    [There was a gun battle]    [Blue Mary]    [I am weary]    [I sit and I silently pray]    [The times have been separated from the times]    [She searched your house]    [This apartment is my prison]    [In the beginning]    [You went and visited your long lost love]    [This is how you see her]    [We were captains together]    [The sun looks inward into himself]    [The clouds came]    [It came and went with the dry desert wind]    [And now the family was on the move]    [I hear all those feet and boots marching]    [We were testing the ropes]    [These are the words that were spoken long ago]    [And this is why we must hold his hand]    [I know you are so very hungry]    [I cannot stand this rising light]    [These are your rough parts]    [I think I am made of monsters]    [I am knee-deep in gore]    [I look up to the starry heavens]    [We are forever mixed in one with the other]    [He awoke in the morning]    [The house gets bigger]    [Now is the time]    [This house is filled with retarded men and women]    [In the heart of the city]    [We break open the body]    [Long ago you arose out of the sea]    [There is a small voice]    [These are the dances that never end]    [There are certain rites and mysteries of the Catholics]    [This rain is my body]    [These are your times of dry desert]    [This is your hundred-year trial]    [Look into me]    [Forevermore we shall wander the halls]    [It is a cosmos that this book describes]    [There is a tiny star in each of us]    [These are our stolen emotions]    [This road is ending]     [This will all one day break down]    [These are your worms and your fires]    [He awoke with a dead little girl]    [It was around that time that the Sandman]    [Where are we now?]    [We are the dead ones]    [He went to Washington]    [The times are cut off from the times]    [These creatures are bundles of human heads]    [No one is rich]    [Some say he hides]    [Try to calm yourself]    [I don't know what]    [Where are all the people?]    [The stones are laid on my chest]    [Upon my death]    [We are the ones made of sticks]    [I bring objects together]    [A suicide is a living work of art]    [You were looking at all the caterpillars]    [We have no power]    [It was then that it crossed my mind]    [The decision has been made]    [I was sleeping]    [At another time I said to God]    [There is a chill in my heart]    [Sight disturbs me]    [These are the appetites of the gods]    [I am afraid and disturbed]    [You were playing pool]    [I'm rising like dough]    [He had an enemy]    [We link arms]    [The darkness comes]    [My poetry says simply]    [I close my eyes]    [This giant is made of men]    [I have drunken of the secret ecstasy]    [I have broken my fist on the mirror]    [I come with the winds]    [I am the small voice]    [We've come to the end]    [What did you break?]    [I see things from a hundred sides at once]    [I am the great large king of rats and roaches]    [I plagiarized Don DeLillo]    [I went and saw Geoffrey]    [This is why I am made of the words]    [We got drunk on cheap beer]    [I had a dream]    [I am cataloging pages]    [Look at these great German arches]    [We jump into the Platte]    [Once one is thirty]    [We are the drunk ones]    [I get turned around in this maze]    [I don't know where I'm going]    [They locked you away in a mental hospital]    [We deftly care for our brains]    [I have been shut away and locked in]    [We are the ones in the prison]    [We sleep on the ground and on floors]    [I can stand myself only so long]    [What is inside of me?]    [This is why you were so distressed]    [I rise with the tide]    [I go out on the grass by the riverside]    [I eat and drink]    [You would have to be on drugs]    [I turned and walked away]    [He was sleep-deprived again]    [We crawl out from under the city]    [You step out onto the cold street]    [My mother couldn't sleep]    [This river flows wtih the bitter liquid]    [My hands are broken and bound]    [Geoffrey takes my hand in his]    [I turn to Geoffrey]    [We shaved his scalp and shrunk his head]    [The broken brain]    [I am only discovering creatures]    [We go down under the earth in dreams]    [I am lost without you]    [I have blighted the land with you]    [I have stopped up the ears of those that hear]    [I am doubly blind]    [But with the two]    [There were ten of them]    [I am made of faces]    [We are the strong ones]    [I shall be terrible with you]    [Devils are made of matter with dimension]    [Each devil has a small soul at its center]    [But angels are large]    [The body is made of geometric points]    [I find no fault in the devil]    [I try to look through my eyes]    [I am the dark man, I am the iron man]    [The world is a seeing eye]    [This is why his mother said]    [The stars and moon are very close]    [The armies march after me]    [Contained herein are all the reasons]    [Do you know what your mother did?]    [This is how your bones are broken]    [I am the voice of one crying out]    [How did the bottom drop out?]    [The sun would not exist]    [I am a little egg or seed]    [There are two small wars]    [These are green dreams and dreams of gardens]    [This is the side of the darkness]    [The frothy waves cover me over]    [Herein contained are all the secrets]    [The Mafia boss captured you]    [I went into the haunted attic]    [It's amazing to me]    [They find a vulnerable point in the metabolism]    [This is what the spirit says]    [I see through the people]    [This wilderness is chaos]    [I am the dizzy man]    [You asked that man]    [A hideous sea creature]    [I breathe in the green miasma]    [I am out of tune with the cosmos]    [There are masks under masks under masks]    [This fish is large and brown]    [I take my drinks]    [This is the house of many rooms]