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Monkbutchery
In hand time’s sands, closely examined Found wanting in final accounting Upon barred churchdoors hammering Black Shuck against timbers flinging Inside, weeping priests pray deliverance Cradling pale monstrance, trailing snot Eve unseen since Vikings came reaving. Hiding in a roundtower’s highest floor Up where eagles soar Praying hands sore, clasping red beads In his robes,…
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Stonedragger
Dragging rocks a long distance The church’s old wall to mend I serve my sentence contended I am no penitent, though repentant.
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Baptize me thrice
Sinful wretch, me My mother’s ire Fetch me a priest. For vile arm frisk me I must be dipped Soap these lips Saying sin only. Drinking fistfuls of lustrating water Wretch mocked most sinful A tutting priest in garb austere Gleaming bowl brings from piscina. Dripping, lifted from the graven situla Argent aspergil, handle fresh…
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Accouterments
Liturgical instruments like devices obstetric Electric sex drill Like a scarred mandrill nose eked out in ribbed steel. Bracing for megatherion Bloodied ritual participants naked, cringing Braves who draw steel fall screaming A demon malingerer, batwinged Apporting through bored ceiling. Thalassidion thrun down God’s blood Affronting the Empyrean, thence flood Appearance of idiot comets, tailed…
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