Alchemisland

LAND TENDED SINCE TIME BEGAN

Fields fertilised with blood from executed men Bloodmade mire, fen eels who tasted flesh In sight of verididerm Osiris Irish farmers plant Yankee praties in shallow lazy beds In sallow sedge, on the scarcest cragged edge of liveable land Upward tending land blasted with stone Handing over to rootless mountains of height beyond accounting Stickish,…

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Creeping Out

Ornery odalisques slide like ice skaters around satyr-painted minarets Dressed in lusty reds, netted legs which could catch fish Rich, horny patrons sleeping still Payment bedside locker pockets Funds doctor trip, unguents parts poxed. Posterior (arse) parted, factory o’farts, palsied arsehole’s prick Never trust mans’ lips, they will sail ships to find you But twist…

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Ships, Bay

Upon waves, salt-treaded dreadnoughts waiting Arrayed ophidian riding greyling waves, feigning agitation Pavements along which finned men in scaled raiment remove Better to buoy them, stymying straying Here comes rain and it is good timing, rhymer’s arrival pleases troopers Who would constrain minds to matters trivial more than upcoming battle Hearing gleoman speak forebearer’s great…

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Lightplay in June

Drosoulites bright sky Dew of stars perhaps Wormwood mark’d Lapsing dark’s deepest, lark’s dawnest wormward embark Ark-upturned mound rounded hill, a fort in ancient time.

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7th Jul 2024

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