Alchemisland

To shepherd’s delight, sky fluster’s pie Meanwhile, angels in tatty dusters shuffle house to house Muttering under blessed breaths the breadthless names Infinity gave itself with a quill of flames. On the bottom shelf, frayed and yellowing, Its binding frail, a mislabelled book of names; Those who will enter paradise through its famous gates. Thumbed…

I’ve eaten meals whose completion is tantamount to martyrdom Scores of corpses, strange corps of flagellants carted them To a burning place upon the furze-furnished moor at Burnhaimlaice. I’ve dined cold on a thousand mould-drenched trenchers Not to have to work. Coughing down coffindown, prophet-mouthed spiders, and vile flowers, Not to have to serve. Having…

Every child dreams upon his first denial Of uprooting through guile the arrogant titans Who by gifted title tithe a life I write I write I whip the tide I forbid its returning, as did it every other time. For every hundred blunted hours I’ve spent writing Blunting biros upon a chiaroscuro Bible Bound with…

Morgue ferns sweeten my hellebore tea Mordant reserves leaking out of my unpreservable diary. I will abroad, the board struck like a close-up broadside They will applaud, else I would resort By responding with undue thought the direst reports Of my uncordial fruit’s swordsome chorus.

Our bleating goat we ate Japelessly on day sixty three This scant bay where no dove plays Where no plugless flow cascades Only leafless Burren A stone-fisted wasteland I hate this place. While with mind and rind enjuiced I shape In vile paces, with a lost man’s patience, A latent grave to suit my changed…