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My Aristotle
Elocution lessons I came to regret having expressedly taken for pleasure I tried cutely to lessen their length by feigning faintness But my unpersuadable tutor accompanied me to my outpatients In his vocation’s suede, clean shabby in that bachelor way, Looking like Aunty’s favourite smoke-stained seating arrangements. From mean habit estranged: lean, stringent, kindly, unfrail.…
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Centreless
The omphalos naturally is up higher For a guy blasted legless by shellfire at Marne or Ypres Any barn’s a cathedral with a high enough steeple, enough quiet people Realizing I am my brother’s keeper Another’s esteem can smother; is as steam Which one can covet but cannot cup nor keep; it does nothing Save…
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Only terrifying height wakes me from gaolmind (wake to kissing)
I said she was going to flip And here we are, events afar from my love-sparring lips Well-placed behind the kitchen island’s bar Dodging well-aimed face-effacing plates during a large conniption I used to kiss her in this kitchen Her exclusive lip a witch’s remit Her noisome poison imbiber poised for embrace Her eerie straight…
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The bringabout
The reluctant visitor’s unheld hand Cramps in mine upon mainlining this cliff-gifted vantage Lifted right from the writ glyph this wrist had minted; To imprint inebriatedly-glimpsed fantasies with reality’s hint. All winter long my longing’s chrysalis crystallized my wish list Readied the mind’s gifts for the wasp-mine of lidless life. To my own creations I…
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Growing the additional eyelids required to enter the Red City
At night, my narrowed mind pilum flights far from the ward Toward some blissless, harrowing land full of listless history Strange manner, odder banner Blinding wind and blistering sand Fissures hissing, a scorpion’s vicious arrow stinger never missing Shadowless as prissy-making unsunned climes yet all the while An ever-prodding sun’s formative rod rots beginners before…
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