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Churchyard At Wintertime
Congregation filing out Church filling out, vestry feels tight Rank with accidie rank and file Snow outside Rankin Bass Brass outside blackened railings Bracken shades shy songbird’s wailing Worms within but frost encasing As between God and subject Graves, gospels, altars all defiled, secret Father’s name reviled Plucked from plots gyring skyward, saint-near and near-saints…
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Vision of Midnight Hills in Gothic Splendour
Pink mist ensorcells moon-blued hill round Bone-choked dells wolf-delved cauldron vespers Humbled observers shake like web-caught leaves The distantly gaunt decorous in proximity Wonder-fraught moors moon-bleached Moon a haunted world Branches sag bitter-bitten orbs Grace of glass and flesh forbidden to iron Ferrous quills construct codices paperless Khmer colonnettes scanned from every angle Irreplicable in…
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Lover’s Arm
Rose-wrapped ivory tower your gold-sawed finger regimentally straight Bushel of pallid shorn staves triangled inside smokerise-shape-sleeve Nails pearlescent, docking round of sunrise paler Scent recollection’s ease; Hers resurrected Nazarene Sweet heaven-sent honey on hair, harlot high priestess Castilian rose scent surrounds myroblyte’s enclosure Stealing glances, steeling lances the cirrus banks of heaven hot with horse-breath…
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Homework
God mountain maker He takes his scales to everything and modifies the surfeit With an arch engineer’s autistic precision The spread legs of his vast compass form a darkening arch over the world. His works are balanced Light twinned to dark, exceeding it in number if not in boldness Craft built like the universe was…
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Brother
Hook nosed with rod crooked God-favoured blood hissing God selects favourites from among his constructions Fortune’s favourites, in like flavour The bloodlines of his nearest dearest host mostly beloved beloved most. Each artful dizzying of the clockface marking countless deep time epochs Suffering the Mosaic Hebrews were plagued by a pox They wailed at walls…
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