Tag: alchemisland
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The aping shadow
Even relapsing fails reenchanting flaccid synapses. Old wallpaper damp-warped, Half-scraped from my soul’s facade. Do we strive to fit pitiful shapes Or are we made at penetration inferior creatures? Her wolf hair posterior-reaching covered like a woollen cape Her scar-striated vertebrae. Her features each leeched of plainness By the eager projections of come courters. In…
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Lip tax
Around my bangle-thick mangrove-angled Neck hangs a warding ankh Through unwardened acres wolf-paraded Over arid terrains, marring swathes, will I wade Carrying overhead large bales, any weight. Realignment’s price and pain. Some vast whale’s baleen. Railinged sky pale alienly Inalienable, her name’s rhyme is my painful lust’s alias Her name rhymes With the way she’s…
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Still careful
Durst I cleave a way, break with inherited trait And manner of communication, go between unerringly straight Leaving the philosopher’s knot knifed cleanly felt a betrayal of the spirit In which it was tied, but the latecoming ship is time And time is fire. Nothing bided, nothing left by, no one let by. Woes the…
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A living statue
A doorman couldn’t keep me outside She had a dormer you could sit inside Warm my hands in her kitten, mitten style Sitting, fat bitten a while. A vista fit for suicide She’s blue, I’m glued, two down from crocodile. Illegal dealings in the rearview, recent. The rest inferior, she’s the reason I dress the…
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Moonsongs
Slapped to flush my devotion utter I cross oceans of wonder to crawl to her toes Reposed below, cold as a fridge rose in a silk-sundered coffin I haunt the gutters under Dublin. She is a softening woman Slaughtered dozens, caught up lovers Cauterize the flesh you’ve ulcered. On the porch when I saw your…
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