Month: Jul 2024
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Stonedragger
Dragging rocks a long distance The church’s old wall to mend I serve my sentence contended I am no penitent, though repentant.
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Baptize me thrice
Sinful wretch, me My mother’s ire Fetch me a priest. For vile arm frisk me I must be dipped Soap these lips Saying sin only. Drinking fistfuls of lustrating water Wretch mocked most sinful A tutting priest in garb austere Gleaming bowl brings from piscina. Dripping, lifted from the graven situla Argent aspergil, handle fresh…
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Accouterments
Liturgical instruments like devices obstetric Electric sex drill Like a scarred mandrill nose eked out in ribbed steel. Bracing for megatherion Bloodied ritual participants naked, cringing Braves who draw steel fall screaming A demon malingerer, batwinged Apporting through bored ceiling. Thalassidion thrun down God’s blood Affronting the Empyrean, thence flood Appearance of idiot comets, tailed…
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Short distances
Who can forgive Apology ungiven Silently sleighted Inwardly simmering. Both in the quiet living room Like a place of gloomy piety Miles millions between us loom Bed like a tomb, inch two. Between us, marooned In my own life, lost island Stirring thereby neither skyward pilot Nor privateer, galley rammed with rifles. Together by oath…
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