Tag: alchemisland
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Seeing a God
My breath holds Like a death-threatened Redcoat Who knows How long it takes to reload. Like my mind and how so What her uncombed mirror shows; A mirage clothesless and comely as a golden votive. Aghast, impossible closeness A collage; her canvas the haunt of dash and style I hear stags clash like flagships at…
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Unchainmailed
She let me watch her removing her armour Each buckle proved an arousing trial Her nudity’s beguiling book, a Ulysses type Guileless, we’d lie untiring A reed-tied brook nearby Dreaming in purply, Caesary pie I would not wish to move but do not know that I could A pleasant bind, finding oneself tied, finding we…
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Lifting a stone
Have you ever feared Like a pious does The devil’s appearance What a click might reveal? I winced, expecting that dulling instant My mind has kindly hinted in whispers Since I crossed that wicked isthmus. Bones tossed skittered across a rot-crusted bin lid I read what they say and meaningtake, but who is it fatemakes?…
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Stoneiric
Spliff’s a wit pilferer But in the end Wit’s a lead silverer; Gold foil a pleb Calling King Warbeck Perkin Does not a king empurple; It is more than jerkin and assertiveness makes a lord. Eyes red as a sharkattack patch, or post-wristslap which veins inhabit I am whisked back to every ungallant attack I…
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Clothed
If you only came over Hoping against hope To see me without clothes I fear it’s sad you’ll walk home For my name in the old phonebooks Is the cloakhook tyrant, Fortycoats!