Alchemisland

Sinking at pace Syncopated grace The naves swell away Ranks of ravers praying A raving priest abeyant antient ways Addresses his laymen, the ley clergy Urge sin’s purging in the final days Tributes urgently, given in earnest Firstborns must be fed to furnaces Dragon hoards on returning collection plates Use the microwave as a Tophet…

Can’t remember the last time I had something interesting to say Told you I’m leaving my job, what I intend and endeavour I want monuments to me in the desert, kind lasting forever Golden pyramids like Ferrero Rocher served me on a tray Ricochet, bullet spray and returned serves Rick O’Shea played a blinder today,…

Zozimus is the best cat He meows a lot, sits on lap He gets in spats with everything Other cats, magpies, mice, even bats He is the sole cause of ecological collapse The minute I write his name he arrives back Despite how many times I shouted it, shaking the bag I suppose it’s just…

The kicked can of my destiny ever only yards away from me What cannot be fled from, what I cannot be freed from Under the thumb of a wonder drug, such summonings Of sun-son effulgence upsrung, as ne’er before flooded The wellsprings of my utterances, one bud and I flutter off Like a newfound butterfly,…

Collapse Death rasps Cerecloth wrapping Graveclothes rotting Grave’s face blotted with ivy, plot Shockingly messy, anonymous headstone Eponymous anonymous, unknown soldier lost tommy Lost standard in a Germanic forest, disastrous conquest Nothing civil beyond the Rhine, fifty forts therealong Flickering televisions, blue light bath Like a sheep dip in lightning Spitting rain and spectral mist…