Month: May 2026
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The unknowability of the
Untrampled lands My old manse Ivy plant clad Eschews fancy trappings, like plans Dungeon lonely Onion stone only Miles of devotional tapestries Depicting recondite mythological scenes; Sky like Pict-skin, white with woad spirals Picturetaker, lasts a while like a corpse’s smile.
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Potatoes
Oven at 200 for, say, 25 minutes Come out perfectly Laden feed for a laden people Dark of latent need on a blatant treeless heath Potatoes, Queens printed boldly on the dusty sack Their weight in some sense their nature. Easter closing in, I have deprived myself nothing The greatest temptation of all When the…
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List of my accolades
Regarding grades, academic station My highest attainments from that parent-elating kind are far estranged Mainly, completion of that test oft-taken Whose outcome plainly denotes to a quaking novice in their robes Which Hogwart’s house their innate virtues best extols. Than me, you could not study less I did not pay attention, too busy messing I…
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18th birthday
No feeling worse than perceiving Death’s impeding imminence In the o’er sharp list of a once-Titan’s keel. Waving goodbye to your mother and sister for the last time, Knowing it’s the last time. A bellyful of birthday cake, and his first ever sip of wine.
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Oven
The last thing I remember of the harassed-ember disaster was that The ass-swept banister gleamt like fire-canvassed glass, and that Warping walls bulged like damp-prolapsed wallpaper. Alas, all ash.
Alchemisland 