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Eastern Dreams of Sand-Strewn Elysium
Near the eyrie of a minaret from where mage-capped ziggurats are miniscule Teacher pupil school: Fisher hauls in his net His son grabs one end to help A hundred mackerel a cast eye assumes. Up here flies zooming like flying carpets, city rotting carapace of a dog carcass Catacombs to ark ever-mounting bones resemble halls…
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Drink my Nightmares
Love the nightmares I strangle to submission Dip out promising won’t be long, back breathless and bloodstained after the intermission Flyblown meats I dangle in the dormers of my mission house wrinkle snouts Tastedlemon mouths like Olive Oil’s arms when peril or harm rears, bouts Of amnesia punctuated by dreams of missing teeth and feet…
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Pry Vice Eye See
No demarcation point between public and private, doorless toilet I call poetry Trousers banding my knees as I evacuate my guts From doorframe turtlesnap apertures squeeze shut.
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Projection or Reflection
I’m seeing myself reflected in art I see In the gallery, panting with shock I am near seizure There I am hidden in a Bosch painting Below a bulbed onion dome, dark-eyed demons forcing a flail up my parted arse.
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Ambitious
Moderate white whale, one thing not to fail at the first Whole life a farce, my art won’t last alas They sense my thirst, fleeing or aversion is their urge Like I disturbed the watering hole, burst forth foaming girthy-jawed from virgin earth.
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