Category: Filí my pockets
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Psyniper
Gunman peering out from the attic windows of my mind Barrel trained upon the station platform Train barrelling along tracks, his trained barrel stationary Platform civically politically, platform busy in train suspense He dims the lights, trainlights stark in darkness highlighting doubles Place of completed journeys, Zeus of disembarkation Delighting in alighting flighting toward the…
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House of my face
House of my face Sun facing dormer of the brow Refuge of my mind’s Defenestrated tongue Rind hued fires rust windowglass eyes Sun facing dormer of the brow My gothic mind is not a house of divers sprites rare Queer squamous roundbacked delights live not there One ghost lives there alone
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Escape
Phantom halo of slipped gallow’s rope Pink girdle around the neck Merriment and mirthful mouthings Drams of Scottish whisky The frame’s shadow like a crooked back Unfouring his legs’ atrophied muscles Removes his gold corona, tosses it away Three fingers caress empty eye socket Circumference of aperture a cave mouth Cave where fire is born…
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Conflict
Did not sleep well last night Great din, gungaless, from the parlor Sherston’s mother communing with spirits Young Hamo dead at Gallipoli Did Eliott’s Aeschylus know him? Severely annotated copy of Goodbye To All That Melancholies of a fox-hunting man By war, Men harden Mars the sharpen Bard birther Mary Arden in Angland since Domesday.…
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Time
Minutes courting hours, men counting time Elaborate astronomical devices Saturnian monoliths, becogged, wrought of black iron and gold They say Time is running out Out of where? Frogs who when submerged in boiling water leap Content to languish in water brought slowly to boil Great fire of time burning us away Slow to start, our…
Alchemisland 