Janky Turbot

Numbing smoke hits me

Serpent stunned 

Fusilli smoke

Winding around a forked stick

Shivering divining rod

House of water

John Clare’s pencil broken 

Shipwreck life’s esteems 

Wax seals

Sealed ears

Bound captains 

Driven mad by boundaries 

Inescapable mazes

Stick to the left side wall

Left hand tracing it pathfinder 

Unfurling a ball of red string 

Flying a black flag 

Kingly purple sinks into wine dark

Nameless sightless immortal Homer 

Thy daughters studied hand plots the course of Ulysses

Time like a see saw

Time waves at nightshore 

Godhead thoughtspore

Dogspawn doggone Dogon 

Thoughtform a thought forms thorned crown worn

Shorn bald knight watches waves enfolding 

His mane once long and proud cut short

On once proud name cuts

Shortcuts to the end, the end of it; cut short

See it and say you saw, like Time 

Omnidirectional 

Liminal pathways intersectional

Ritual of summoning 

Blood libations poured in a bored stone

Howling ghosts appear in familiar masks

Ghostlights above the censers like wolf moons

Odd ambulations in Heaven 

Movements, without pattern or precedent

As if chased by the unbound end time Wolf

An uneasy sun espied tasseled with strange fire 

Tentacles unfurl, brighten then dissipate 

Ten nights the sun strayed outside its lines 

Queasy wobbling horizons

Binoculars capturing the sun 

Blazing lemniscate

Six jars leave open for the Gods

But the seventh seal

Machinery of night 

Midnight machinery

Loose plug universe blinking out 

Candles hoarded for when the stars go out 

The scholars of war tease out wisdoms from slaughters

Silver lining

Mars he comes in tempest

Too bright is Day

The stately tower of her neck

Divine fringe nears, nimbus

Love Herself imprisoned lies 

Numb at touch, to touch

Myriad flowers created to blush unseen

Obscured life sets down a type of bliss

I am rusting here inside my armour 

The spirit animating Talos

Tell us a tale of the mountain residents 

Apollo and Artemis malign Hera’s creation canal on Delos 

Delian dalliance, alien alliances

Beloved to Apollo an unread poem

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