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GHOST SHIP, HOLD FULL OF CURSED GOLD
Below deck hidden holds, bars Tolls bone-exacted extracted by knee-impacting steps slick with stale sea wetness Steep stairs scored with splinters, the bold who defy scrapes find themselves escaping danger Snug as a manger, stunning lack of arrangement, amazement of piles all sizes All the stock ever seized by pirate or exciseman, sky-high Witness to…
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BEFORE WHAT?
Before putrefying giant flesh gave breath to new worlds Before birds gorged on the innards of fire-looting Prometheus Millenia before Milesians keen for her grand verditure, virgin earth green as Eden verdant viridian urgent throbbing unguent for sun men whose sand isles defy seeds to try sprouting High in mountains a fastness, thereby where a…
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BIRD PARTS
Beak like a rapier Face which rouses even a mother’s hatred Utterly giftless, lipless and grafted skin stretched thin as over elongate mindcases in diminutive alien races Diminished by comet-pierced aeons, ages before angel or demon Before drummond and rune-banded horn summoned heavenly hosts of gallant heroes Monstrance glowed like the oriflamme, all bread leavened.
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Ancient Naval Warfare
Bound for Actium Tri and quadriremes tarry Mare Nostrum Corvus to aid boarding Bore-imploring missiles shot score-by Gore-hot decks decorate the struck Separated skin unable to suck back leaking ichor Bough-bursting ballista bolts in storage.
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Ananas
Pineapple cheating fruit, sweet as a treat Xanthine rings as deck king’s fingers Song which lingers long on tongue Palette-haunter exalted among esculent offerings such as edifice trees and entice sense olfactory Madman’s mallet’s delicacy as it descends breast to tum One licks one’s thumbs, fearing loss even crumbs Decorates divine plates from dreamy Olympus…
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