With the climate unstable
Impatient seasons do not stay long
Or delay overlong
Until humid, drooping crops rot
Without fixity, fluxing winter lasts a half year.
During feared summer
Acid rains quicklime once-sylvan demesnes
Jettisoned for grim, austere tenements
Through cracks in a haunted stairwell
Farsighted kids stare out, that perilous without
None save death-doubting heroes dare
Blackened land, as had Pharaohs
Detrited desert basin Djinn denizened.
Sneering span of land
A vicious rift, fissure-veined, spans
Like a hand sounding a horse flank
An old city’s crypt
Below an upturned lip
Blazing fissure bleeding still
Smoke letting genetically
Fire there imprisoned
Grandfather’s smile to grandson given in blood’s movable mire
It had that gyring of a spiral, which though minute stores a mind
Lash-lipped kisses from nuclear missiles gripped those toothed aisles
Maiden mavened, smiling toothless and sun-dried
All and sundry atomised, lives reduced to ash piles
By mortal-cast weapons stolen from armoury divine
Nippletipped, blistering sapling stripping
Which trysting kings Corn Holly fissioned.
Alchemisland 
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