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Union of profound antipodes
Rather than reject my acid, something tacit forms ‘twixt two sides Puce-eyed I’m that high, we discussed life beneath Orion’s light We were thieves who took from day by extending night Our delight made moments monthlong Three days if we had been in a cave they would praise us I shield my fielding amethysts, your…
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Codex describing antient wartime
Who induced this uncouth carouse We cannot recall. The youth treated our retreat by boat and beating wing like a cruise. One beating hardly makes bleating sides equal The only surety is that one side will lose A recluse imagines twofold defeats Dragons and their dispatch by means of knightly feats.
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Tastedriven
I wasp about her for a glimpse of bare leg She wafts her scent Copper taste like length-licked nickel coins Her leopard breath would tempt a coy. My vantage coign the suitorworn step between shadow-crept foyer And unkempt bed. I am lost, MIA as De Loys’s ape, seeking her pain-seeding chamber. I am shamefully faraway…
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Never get what you want
The ebon spumes of our funeral minds entwine fantastic A melding chemical wedding. All proves elastic, malleable, bends To desire’s shape. Bends, shaking frenzy, all portending disaster And pursuing alas, for pleasure alone And nothing from nothing, so Shakespeare wrote.
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Courting a sorceress
I feel a bastard’s rejection Masterless, my knifed cask asked lacking direction My protected heart electively plated in hard, gnarled, scarred armour Slept alarmless corset-tight confined inside a casket of blasted firestone The pyrearm force of her attention retired to legacy my defences She cast upon that vast deep a dark-kin shadow, she a Pegasus…