Tide’s navel stirred as Hera’s rage at Zeus’ infidelity
Thirty days pacing decks scarce enduring four abreast
Until palm’d nest God’s lambent dove alights, wave-breasting Halcyon
Effulgent battalions engaging a cloud Actium, trining lightning cracking
Like bones ensconced in the fierce wrestling holds of Kleostratos
Cackling sisters of world-weighted Atlas, themselves ballasted
Lashed to sails sailors sirens passing, Her eyed prow blasted
Rope, mesh and net collecting coiled, connecting disparate sections
Seeming to affix brig to rig and rail to sail
Would this ship shatter were they cut away?
Adhesing webs a thickly-legged spider may lieuing silk shed
Sky sodden windsong doggerel
As if for debt some giant’s wrist glaived bled
His blood Adam’s Ale.
Injurious mares wavescresting bolting, leaving ploughs unheld
Salitter manes against frames dashing
Wailing! the unsaved whose ears were as sealed caves to way’s err
Carried to the sea’s briared edgeland and trialled coward
Spray spattering agin taut mainsails
Like spuming Leviathan fountained in flattery for widegyre wyverin.
Watching erotic suicide, unfurling tapestry like a foetid, dead pharaoh
Bidden by rare glyph bare breast to Sobek, boat-threatener
Men spy cavorting in fortress skies alien sights, of brightness arresting
Scorning disguise, at hitherto unmeasured paces screaming.
Upon rainless world brine dirges plummeting
As claret a struck knight’s raiment flooding
Arid lands, droughtful
Self-doubting roots flourish
‘Pon Stygian Atlantic fringes adrift, clad in ripped garment flapping
Scarved in threaded rags, scarred and scattered
Escaping flooding espy a lightling rainbow threading nimbus arches.
Sky avast smokehewn escarpment
Omphalos whence capering equators halo
Tides no mortal boat sails o’er
Currents forming clogged shoals, floating forest floors
Porridge sedge in which floundering vessels settle, hedged
From crownests sighting distant henges
Frigid fringes marking known edges.
Vengeful temperatures, rain endless land of temptresses
And elfin empresses dressed in the sun itself
They fear wolflike dogs, sucking King-consuming bogs
Magical defensive fogs dropping at Druid behest, mystical inveigling
Sky unveiling, draining unto a pillar or pale railing scaling sea to sky
Hail issues hissing disappearing missiles, at scouring of a corn king’s flesh
Dogging mists fogging fistwiped eyes, fishwife wiles fear divine things still
Lock in, log-jamming, ships widdershins cinching potential invasion plans.
Ogygia cunning Odysseus polytropos trooped unstooped dropping off
Furthest from stupid, here found stupor
After destroying Troy and blinding Polyphemus
Five thousand stadia length from what we call now America
Reckoned Plutarch, citing Plato
Odysseus implacable, Ithaca alone can impact him, he would go back
Calypsian septennial.
Alchemisland 
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