Tag: alchemy
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Fly
Skin another mask that’s worn Torn paper sky in storm aspect A mass of balled warnings Firmament, just another awning Nothing stopped by bawling You chose to go forth crawling Fisher of souls, must be trawling How many spirits trapped in my craw.
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Over there they treat us like
I am the rust-jammed hatch things vanish casually into. Matte blackness I am that. Roaring stag, abhorring all practice unlordly; Sword unsheathing a resort only for When foes mean to stab the impertinent, mismanaged slab Of my sagging collaborative flesh like day labouring Keats. * Replies by ripple this dirty nail paint’d Grit-flavoured water, stagnant…
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Trainlure
By an impatient outpatient graveyard Shot hard that hydra-carted rumbling clacktrain Massive as a Gawainfoe, and manmade, so vain. As an arrow flaming bathes yellow the life it claims, So was that narrow passage shorn of midnight nakedness. Bell, book, and candle; Vellum book handled by hours lamplit. Championship chances my damp-lip cauldron creates amply.
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The prayercaller’s shout
Minerals divers Binary stars highted after curs Unworldly experiments recorded but curtly To hide them in hidebound, lest too far back pushed, Our fogbank curtains and bushes obscurant, on this certain great work. Unfar from a lasting curative Keep on, keep on with thy siphoning jar. * Rubylike spinels on strings like fiddler’s fingers Dangling…
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Twisted king’s dream transcriber
That loud silence abounding where dead men reside, Whether struck down by cast pilum in prime, or past, Dead dropped in fields, on yawning pasture Dreaming of land deals. * Lunate etchings decorated the ex-patient’s stretched flesh, Eas’ly flens’d acquiescent skin, leathern and nesting legends. Scarab-back black, ashcatcher’s tongue, my backward sun. Bad batch’s worst…
Alchemisland 