Month: Aug 2026
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Death of a captain
You hardly kiss me I am Nelson dying, knowing triumph is at hand Guided to the mystery, surrounded by gallants Saying Kiss me, Hardy. Give your hand as ballast. Flimsy the sand hemming in the sea from the land I cannot see the seaside without the brand of Hemingway’s heavy hand. I felt unforced a…
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Yellowing
Me? A soldier? Fearful pate to sloping shoulder To painful toetop Tho’ no less fierce in daring rushing over the tap. INRI the brief and garish slogan Of my increasingly-flown banner Which a leal cohort answers.
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Take dictation
This reading thirst, this needy curse, I have overworked Until the burgeoning calendar’s golden bursts Were dark as the undetermined, hearse hued, before my hooded eyes Which light refuse. The sound of static is the pleased cat hiss of life’s lighted fuse As its chewing flame eats a tunnel through tallow unto charcoal. A dimmed…
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Climbery
Fiend aided ascent, we pray to misrule’s maker to send His age-ending vengeances. Mirthless church sharkeye dark The new gospel of Mark a barking verger renewed A god of gauze, of gas Of glassjaws shattering at landing assjaw. St John of God’s St God of the john, inhaling the gauze.
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Denying distance
Grownup daughter’s once-shiny toy left behind come collegetime. Every night the blisterful sun’s unsightly oneness Acknowledged those divided as ultimately united; Despite mighty leagues of sea miles between, their peerers concealed The same flailed star. Tart with need I veiled neatly my treasons Screwed apart my arm-chewed chainmail heart On scarred knees, her need my…
Alchemisland 