Alchemisland

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Short story: Somme Nambulist

To the reader, sonic partnership for your journey through the codex: https://alchemisland.bandcamp.com/track/somme-nambulent-i 1916. The violent tapestry of a red century’s troubled childhood is invisible beneath the bloodstains. The war which was to end before Christmas drags on into its second year of breakless harvest. On the shattered continent the rutting stags of European royalty vye…

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25th Aug 2023

alchemisland of Ireland, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

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Deep Assignments Run Through All Our Lives

Old Troy of the DMP Old Troy a ruin, a heap Middens where stood temples, among motionless flagless priapic poles Ropes pulled down the stone sword of Aries Broken on the broken flags A millennium of shards Stone flood spreading outward across the floor Across the world a milipedinous avatar of concrete twists itself Bookbinder…

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21st Aug 2023

Filí my pockets, wyrd mythology

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So Ends The World

Things that are realized fully only by their undoing, or whose zeniths shortly precede their desistance: Sun, proudest at the dimming of its ever returning glory, stretching to fill the horizon the expanse of its scouring wingspan, nightly dead and daily risen. Warriors, fiercest amidst a hateful throng set upon their demise. They are wasted…

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21st Aug 2023

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Fragments from the broken wheel

Dublionysus, Mangan’s lurid epic penned in an absinthopium haze. The poet’s correspondence highlights a mysterious redheaded bedmate who tended his fleshly pangs during the tract’s 23 day construction period but her name, like Mangan’s manuscript, is lost. Themes of national and personal confination abound in Mangan’s work and seem to reify thematically as assignments in…

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21st Aug 2023

alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

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Magic is like a mushroom One head before thine eye Scarce belies abundant bloom Subterranes, fearful sky One million unique crafts Cults of infinite variety Masterplan master’s laughs Engulfed flames the piety Piles of hewn noses Cleft to spite faces Red paint reed raised Moses Death these vile places Erase thereof traces Multitudinous as the…

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21st Aug 2023

Filí my pockets

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Short story: Somme Nambulist

Deep Assignments Run Through All Our Lives

So Ends The World

Fragments from the broken wheel

90 most haunted angle 90