Leaving

Wan most at night

Veins with desire alive

Leaves skittering along treacherous muck-beaded cobbles 

Hob knees nobbly having shoved hoofs into boots shelters in a shop front, even he shocked, who saw the Lord’s fist knock his host from holiness

Boreal sword cleaves 

Battered windvains stirred midnight life

Watching through spitspattered windowpanes above a gaslit lane

Cage lamp mustard-haloed, xanthine aura surrounding

Tramps lay low in glow of false day 

Gloameyed odalisques fishnetted tryst on fish nets, reaching fitful blisses 

Coins fistfuls bedside lockers, or in hand, cast groundward if a dandy derisive and loathe an Irish 

Kiss goodbye for a good ride.

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