Category: wyrd mythology

• 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…

  alchemisland

  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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• The Beginning

  A citadel concealed by clouds  Nimbus caul around Olympus A covering worn like a shroud  Through bores a sage caught glimpses.  Dark buffeting solar winds Void, matte black then time begins Gardens which will host many sins Are yet seeds, strands that Norns will tend.  Seas with witch hat sharkfins in Down below and dark…

  alchemisland

  20th Aug 2023

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