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Desertion Before Actium
Elven lemon sky Ionian Sea Roman killing Roman, Juno’s griefful heaving stirred seas Flux disease and desertion distilled Antony’s ranks to truest champions Still they reckoned a reckonable force Skipper swearing fingers to his lips whffffphhhs signalling swift ship’s arrival Assuring no rival lyingly flies friendly flags, wolf in sheepen rag Long boathook like snake-choking…
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Love, Bastard Love
Love’s language bruised plum purple prose Prudent also, eyes to future Tensed knee blessings Greedy piety dreaming riches teeming Love-fettered arrows sent at love-denying breast, impressing good sense Sentence mended not by mere sentences Pittance of grace leant loved heart hearing true word dearly meant Lifetime spend pursuing ending More amazing by half journeys. Men…
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Mr Barr of Scotland and What he has Planted
Mr Barr of Scotland Reputable planter whose hands tease blooms such rare leaves that all agree he aboves all others leagues He asks assistance seeking that upon life’s marker at death primroses planted be Favour he xanthine o’er green, that which like bee’s brighter half hued That which like a calf thought smiling and daft…
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Children dancing to death, cursed by Vitus through Osiris
Rufous priests cedartaller, ancestors Irish pirates, summoning cancers Blisters boils weeping pus, shaking hands lances them Bubbling bubos, those waiting shaking so fit to burst Stretched convex dome palm’s width pus-filled Dead skin cells which could neither escape nor be ingested, thence slow green marking infection Wound fresh flesh tender still, it is better to…
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DEIFIED BY MISSPELLING (BIRTH OF HEATHENFATHER DEMOGORGON)
Poetic annals Priding imperfections Electing admit mistake Taken to scribe’s place Of race shrewd he prune-faced, hardly graced by God with special place Before I see his book, a gentile cowan must be given dispensation through His power Before glowering at days yet to flower, funded by His bloody end By habit, beneath roughspun habit,…
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