Alchemisland

Your whole life a cruel ritual of abject humiliation Gatekeeper creeping keeping low by the train station railings Grey skies, grey prefab buildings, sky like an illness symptom Rooks in odd numbers make the roof their sanctuary Sawing through the chains, Fenrir frothing seems angry My ilk Lord Santry, baddest man between Belfast and Bantry…

New girlfriends coming up to meet the sun where I planted those hydra’s teeth last summer Keys of keef in sheds down grimy backstreets, running faster than a streaker from police Lights, helicopters wasping overhead, rozzers with shockbatons heads in helmets Consider a rock to the visor us well met, vet ten years in the…

Lost and found, the Anduin sound thought to drown the ring bound To its makers ancient hate, a knight in sable plate leaves an intact plate Upon retiring, offers no goodbyes but silently slips out, farewell Irish A loose eyelash pressing with unbearable gentility against a gelid blue Iris Once flower queen, now a painted…

Draped in green, priest of seeds takes his best three papers and scrapes trees From his grinder lid, dust falls on his apron, turns haze to vapour, tells me Mason I am bound to be, so baked I believe him, blurt out that’s amazing, near burn out Like a fireman’s failure, no safety railings in…

Panther and Jesus two signs repeating Like that cat’s teeth once squeezed bleeding without surcease, no release After eating they stay in caves for three days Remind you of anyone? Gloria in excelsis deo Tres dias, mamma mia, cheetah-fast both Diaz brothers on a speedbag Full bags of speed on the oak finish coffee table…