Month: Jul 2024
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Edicts of Saint Benedict the germaphobe
St Benedict’s edicts Whom time repealed Archaic, mayhaps draconian Strictures governing shoe removal And hand hygiene amongst priests Whom breaded flesh grasp leavened Glory uproarious during the offertory Droning gospels like distant hornets Before the monstrance Iconic Ur-consciousness Golden incense censers furling Redolent furlongs afar Farflung by Boreas, well-lunged.
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Ritual Cleanliness
Stained to lavabo Hands lathered Unreluctant celebrant Ineluctable cleanliness Pleasant scent as of meadowed heaven Septuagint abeyant, bathing my hands Mouthing Psalm twenty five I will wash my hands in innocence O Lord so will compass altar thine I will be altered by it Change in the truly compliant Miracle upon belief reliant. Sighing in…
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Counting wounds
Brute unsutured Blood gushing Wound soon sewn shut Cards of mystical import strewn bedside trestle In my tarot’s taking, fate’s slung arrows slewing.
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Descendants
In a faraway land of palm a familiar drama hatching Abraham and sister-wife Sarah, later matriarch, made Isaac Thy descendants keeping my tenets Protecting my covenants shall be ascendant Dependent on none, let live in sunful plenty Far from the sinful bowl, empty Thou and thine art protected Shielded by favour and unseen angels Who…
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Homeless Poets
Homeless Ovid Abutting road Not leading to Rome Blameless of Homer Torpid storm, turgid night Serpentine tide’s undulate tattoo An exciseman in surplus resounding Pass’d without glance-casting our poet. Cursed to roam without the Garden By the sawfire sword angel-guarded Like a burdened beast ere upon its toes An azure-triskelled woad naked in a cleaving…
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