Month: Aug 2024
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Day off up earlier than for work
Rising daily at dawn Moments before my first alarm Staring at the besummed face on my arm Its stations and markers A bisected tree’s leafless phase, rings marking advanced age Its knobbled face, half-effaced, like a green man gazing out from his bole redoubt An ancient loathing, cold old disgrace, a lonely place stuck loading…
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G O A T E D mindmoat
You feel goaded I feel goated Tact, I forego it I ride in and you’re gonna know it Knife sin, and open throat it Shoot the ground, make bunny hops Clowns all around, I’ve got funny ops From my brain extract a pinecone Surgical instruments on a metal tray My mind’s own magic seeing stone…
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Dambuilder
I feel my heart beating Silence through you are speaking Please repeat Replete with apple trees I, their keeper, this Eden Hesperidean ideal, idyll’s idyll Rilles to vision thrilling, birds trilling in derision of Time passing like the last of the villagers leaving They will flood it to build a dam, the green where we…
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Shitting in the woods
The sound of morningbirds, larks astir, striated barks on stern oaks Druidical drooping weeping willows stooping as if to hear more closely The streams choking from the narrow throat of the thirsty earth Thirty learned owls in parliament and none knows anothers’ name Their gaze a panopticon, the space of an octagon a hawk circuits…
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Violence of cavalry charge
Come to drain the boils of rancid cancer The needle wielding horsemen handsome Lancers on panting horses Coming down a painted mountain Like a flood coming to drown them On the backs of sweating four legged panzers Black breathy sweating panthers, lathered flanks like tough leather Sinewy legs, much rider and ridden faced together One…
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