Alchemisland

Days repeating take a scenery change, changing scene

Place was like a dream, with my brother in a Wicklow airbnb

Seeking pretty scenes, dreamful sleep time passed peaceably

Between blood’s twins an isolate peak, sheep fields, does in hedgerows

Pheasants like clay pigeons before they’re shot

Coming out hot, mind gone

But what’s left still exceeds the default creativity

Planting seeds implanted dreams

Scenes called screen memories

The real memory recedes, becomes the dream

Images, screens, a single frame of someone screaming all you tease out

From the therapist’s couch staring up at the ceiling, teeth like a terrapin

A thin, terrible mouth revealing bladeteeth and green gums receding

I wanted a little break, something to shake up the painful everyday

Got more than what I paid for, my jaw was on the floor

Which was bloodstained, windows were stained, the grounds paved

Full of vain statues of fey Olympians, posing like papped actresses

I want to smash and leave them half shadow, shattered ships after Actium

Stick to what’s factual, actual

Slippy flagpole of the metaphysical a rabbit hole

Most can’t return from, that’s a perilous chapel I wouldn’t tarry there long

Demons throng the slit revealing a black slip of raw abyss betwixt here

And more twisted realms

Fearful things therelive, malfeasance’s dwelling house.