Which Valhallite for more life would not stake
All hours unlife’s estatial halls wineful gloried
Who chooses stained glass immortality
Over corn’s faintest Elysian brush
Hasting wind making baled hay hiss
Sand reforming in awe-ordered fist.
Dead and so forever
Flown through the arches
Dark dress, mourners marching
Blessed now, regardless
Whether ripe-hearted or charmless.
Dead upon wet sand
No grand speeches
Only exhausted land
Murder-exalted man
Waves beach-hiding
Red in toothless clawless crawling endless
He whose Odyssey ended still in Greece
Mother alike to a Hecuba
Watching her husband hacked down in sacked Illium.
Wounds my steel casts
Are bane to all healers
I peel to the cored seeds of men
I feed corn kings back to the fen
I am power, then
I sentence cast
Committing that
Which hath man damned since Adam.
I am peerless in battle, many battles have fought
I am baptised in slaughter, Achilles knows my torture
I am a lord of hurt, unfit for soft things
Neither cushionling nor kingly, what stays me I push
What rushes me I put aside, blushing with essence the soon-dead daring
Where men err I excel smiting, my axe biting lightning-fleet
My tested metal true biting, lightfast streaking like a comet to a gullet
A skull above a gorget
Gore, roaring downward bubbling
Life guttering out, blood typhooning
His back a lank plume mulletting down.
I have not the scrolls of which sages speak
But I have a street smart, a thief guile
Light on my wit’s feet
I have many men beaten, with blade and fist
I have with many buxom maidens trysted
I beshipped Charybdis
Her bespoke corruption ructioning, vessel rupturing
Girdling her whirling, vicious roaring rings.
Men would guide you, hide sorrow from your eyes with evergood tidings
I would pay gleoman play you lyres, find in leaves
Omens of your roaming ghost in heart’s halls
I would pause during prayer, applauding you over the Gods
Staring at the sun of you, loyal dog, until eyes did o’erfog.
Have me here, a thing to bait
Upon me yourself sate evening late
Have me navy your ceaseless seas, winedark snotgreen
Let me kneeling grease hems with lip’s due, being itself adoration
Let your moods be my stations to crosscarry past
I will love you though, alas, cold chary
My bold chariot gleaming gold stirs you not a moment more to tarry
No army shadow will settle near these shores if I am chosen
Let your heart be unfrozen, let your coffers be plundered by another
Let those marbles muddy, lest time outrunning us
End the sun before our lips together come, twinning as admixtures.
Sheathing steel
Lifts necked heel
To Ares appeals
Thunder peeling
As if in answer
Trineing lightning
Across the horizon
Offering no guidance
For a time silence
Only tides titheing
Taking back by inches
Land due Poseidon.
Alchemisland 
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