Alchemisland

Truth moths to the arm-twisting light of fire’s trial Reveilles from the burned, flame-earned music Hooded in sackcloth, a court reviler unties confines uniting flesh Removing mesh unveils tools which truth invite From troglodyte mouths to whom rectitude illusion Solutions to matters academic discovered in probed unsutured wounds Unscrupulously, with rueful application plying by his…

Hands marked with effort-denoting gashes Dawn men kneel before sacred ashes Asking a dashing handsome sun for answers Flints are dashed, asking sparks Fire not yet mastered, all that will come after seems hyena laughter Pinioned choirs sing Her hymns, heads inclined inquiringly. At world’s remaking A lake becoming a mirror A glade replaces a…

Reddening lips purely to further our native instinct toward love Embrace, long kissing in a rilled garden A single snake hissing Full of venom like I’m young again Ink floods vellum What malevolent credo urged one to threaten with soup art Which to nation’s whole belongs Incredulous, I cannot answer all the questions I ask…

I must go further, beyond furze to a place of many turnings Holy books burning, writ and wit of heretics quickly purged No more will caged birds sing I leave my gaol, fleeing bound for ancient sands Sol’s scalding hands pressing flat to my back burn and sizzle Kingmaking domain where only the solid-made stay…

A season’s resting, breast steadied unto cessation Fallow field no oats sewn, regrown creaking shyly to life Eagerly showing, branches limbs teased from stone Reposed most boldly, muscles shining waxy with oils Fields glowing with mithril dew, cobwebs jewelled Spiders a confusion of opals and rubies Unamused by movements of troopers Evercloser sounds: shooting, looting,…