Tag: alchemisland
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Dark Night of the
Night atramentous Tremendous dispelling Light falling like salient shelling Turned Earth. Tail Fires bright Lightworker the Night’s Caesar Seizure of midnight assets diamonds countless faceted Slent its trajectory Blent day to night, strange leopard light New lantern new record heats, new ores fountain Earth itself a saltern and what’s left at end alchemically altered A…
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Jibes
Lambent, to win by wits keen Words measured and massed Of cruder sentiments shorn Long pruning, its trained growing Measured not by inch but metre Not unlike a poem read by a ruler Or a compass holder, its legspan Finds the hidden meaning Despite ignoring the light-pouring outpouring, beaming Like a pearl’s underside only God…
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Disinter
Long languid air atrophied the tomb of Aten Traps, tribulations to thwart thievery Boulders which fall and what’s struck flattens Stairs giving to slides, circling to pits of spikes Vipers in corners, genetically antient, striking out Fanglike pillars flanking doorway which only one true sees Inside your vast golden sarcophagus, the patience of trees On…
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Cormac
Blood Meridian sells only 1800 Nine years at typewriter thundering For less than a millennium receipts Floundering broke asks, where am I blundering? Knows is good; Is great; the greatest. Yet can’t write way out of that fate; Some sticky things bound are designate Happenstance, long gesting plans; inchoate, When world was old, not born…
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Temperature
Rising heat Boiling peat the bursting bogs like geysers Spit out old King’s bones, chariot wheels, rune-banded axes, coins wearing lesser Caesars Land subsumed swallows itself Like a burning man tastes two drops of melting nose before final tastebud goes It sinks and sickly swallowing sounds like last of bathwater. A long, dry shelf And…
Alchemisland 