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Stripped sapling
How something bares Virtue being always there Easily had as air As room span to able arm. No, the virgin beholder’s view Is lost now to me and you As the stable room is To the regretful spinner. Strange isn’t it, that; How old hat so oft seen as to be plundered of spleen Can…
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Oather’s fugue
Rising snailine my Depressed worth Like a balloon burst; Dearth love hath this troubling Hatchless heart Half-earthed, reluctantly art’d. Bubbling Boiling over unwatched. Unaimed. I fear imagined birthrights. Snorting harsh saline Drowning in marshy brine. Her body was a grimoire writ In gritty braille and fingernails To read I willed myself blind With imagination and…
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Bruised choral
Hurt such That received love Felt undeserved. Clutched but reluctant Trudged toward; Trust always lies to a sword. Descending like exiled angels Cardboard wings wear my wishes; Once fetched from treetops From river stretches fished Separate like brittle things at the soft prod Of fingertops. The frosted pond of our love Melting as the sun…
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War Warren
In France, the dance of the animals Was told in stone. Alchemists masked Marched between castle and cathedral Leavened land danced Between sweet unmanaged stretches Where reaching necks swayed in garment-taking gales Enchanting nameless features The handsome sort, rocks which by phantom moonlight’s torch Seemed forts for faeries or parts of old forges Where lost…
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Paths wet with recent birth
Through a puzzling puncture some spellcaster punched into Dublin. Tripled six recommendation This seemingly shifty location’s the next leisure day sensation The staple beachfront’s replacement: Farewell the ice cream loving donkey, the shell, the seamen hawking bream. Six star accommodation. Six jar wasted only basin vomit abates Lurid service conducted hurriedly At a tucked-away secret…