Alchemisland

Neuralchemy, summoning lost worlds, astral womb knowledge

Southside Childhood

When I was a kid, we used to jump into a bush We called it the bouncy bush, passing give a push To a pal I get eczema when I stress itches like thrush Skin blotches up one shade off ketchup I scrape away layers like Shliemann’s dynamite until the raw sheens The treasures of…

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17th Apr 2024

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Second House

When you speak What you don’t know Falls like fall snow Beneath your snout You seek and sneak and eke out You are a ghost inside my house A false knowing A pallbearer when it’s snowing Lifting the palled coffin with no emotions showing His pale face, his cough-soured mouth White as a winter lotus,…

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17th Apr 2024

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Withstands

Force eases nothing which kindness could not eke out Tender words leant fly a million miles Dismissiveness breeds myriad guiles Force pleases nothing save own strength Thinks nothing of a bloodringed mouth. Like rulers thinks lengths, of holdings and tenure Strength lends itself understanding I am but natural self upperhanding When meagre flesh cuts iron…

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17th Apr 2024

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Addled

Missing limbs mark lucky ones, their seen scars pitied on Beloved not ye inner marked, who a dog wouldn’t piss on Scarred ear to arse within A once lucid mind o’er frissoned by insistent melee Becomes a self imprisoner Every second leaf is a poisoner Poison oaked asses in medbay Fingers crossed round marlboros Crossed…

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17th Apr 2024

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Dublin Days

Down Winetavern street beside what should be wood Quay The people’s will defied, the land reused the finds destroyed What should have been Ireland’s golden mile, twice what York is Is now the grim set of civic offices near to Cork Street Between the mummified cat and rat and the needle exchange Where you can…

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14th Apr 2024

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Southside Childhood

Second House

Withstands

Addled

Dublin Days