Light foreboring columbines
Mother in law’s tongue sharp, marbled
Thorned knight the milk thistle
A son of cursed Lambton.
Stately elms housing owls
Brocaded with striations
Big pink bouquets of Stinking Billies
For trenchant bully Orange William.
In pale June Maylings still maere
Gaunt and bare, as yet hairless
In stolid boughs repose black bores
Like whorish catamites explorable
Lavender flower bee-beloved belts a bower
Leddy’s garter bramble a champion armed with teeth
With cloth grappling those who ambling trample.
Cultivating affinities
Staked fruits as emblazoned stately livery
Linnet-eaten treefronts like ponging cheeses portal-tattooed
Hundreds of plants guttering forth from her garden
Beheaded Dian Cecht’s girdle aspread a rooted medicine chest
Vanquished by his father.
There behind the beaten bracken, a hidden dell
None delve there, one dwells there; witch-hearted hare
Spells of stingsome gorse in forcesome yellow
Pale yellow primrose which grows early, firstflowering
Beside that which Fermanagh’s mages hight eyebright
And sea aster, flowered azure as the sea it pastures.
Masterly paintings which all fantasy could not attain
How pale, pagan alien
Flushed florets; ducat and florin to ferry from ports foreign
Beauties plucked from Florentine friezes swaying abreeze.
Alchemisland 
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