Tag: alchemisland
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Sisterly advice
His flagging body a bank vault of tension and nagging tautness Slumps as taught at the sedative’s intervention A tip off from a relative he won’t bother to mention Save saying that’s one skeleton he’s didn’t expect to credit In this indelible – uneditable – working of his miserable life’s grist Into something edible for…
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Glueless ascent
Cut my wrists before I write To see if my riskily brisk bleeding can outlast the market’s leading battery It’s an incredibly long fall from dominion and a credibly longer climb back; On that matter ask Lambert Simnel’s opinion. Rocks brokenbottle sharp gore-slathered, clad with glue-nibbed pinions I found at Grendel-tracked trenchbottom.
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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…
Alchemisland 