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Marlowe’s Tamburlaine
East of Greece in Iran, then Persia To the lips of the rulership called Persepolis I am plotting Cosroe in the shadow of my brother, King Mycetes I will have a Greek treachery, a Cretan betrayal. A brother’s burial No timber horse No ankled fletch No sacked Illium No ten year quest No backgoing West.…
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Ruins of the space nursery
Our sky all it contains Canopy a galley’s bottom Ere-expanding reach Elements mimic each Fire eminent as storm Wind like pasture Salvation a thousand years away Chaos reigning thereafter. Abandoned spawning pits Thrones of lichen Overgrown, eczema’d with climbery Otherworldly foliage violently-spined Climbing salvage rusted ginger Things one finds only at some sylvan sphere’s unreachable…
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Lightning mighty from Zeus’ eyes
Thunder no less than lightning which like Poseidon’s fork trines Imagine the mind which conjured lightning Painted upon burgeoning night light streaking I must tombs break to engage my soubrette All mind hive of swirling spicules Spiked notules, modalities inescapably hostile Rabelais with Scrabble tiles Few words the dictionary didn’t reserve, none to the wise.
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Black as loathing beholder
Seven years with Calypso in Ogygia for lost Odysseus, longing Ithaca Screen for eclipse that weaved dream Midnight Font delighting all believers All creeds heeded Fed by heathen light Shed by freezing stars, clothed in illusory flames Distances of ages betwixt. Seven planets willed into the crypt of the void Rilled moon life-devoid, former ocean…
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Barbarians Walls Fucked
Rome’s antient walls with faces emblazoned Names considered graffiti now famed signatures Progression of ages, processing gold to lead Ardent flames o’ersaw Empire’s best Symbols of better, nobler days Ladies myriad: wives, wardens, soldiers, goddesses, dryads All kinds world to fashion and fill: Wrenched breast-succour’d babes, thence to smother Overmothering Emperors into neurotic degeneracy. Poisoned…
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