Tag: alchemy
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Sibylline books
Indulging in more lines than ordnance survey maps Best laid plan ‘twixt mouse and man Bat flight across vast mapless tracts In rightlight passing flies may cast dragonshadows A line millennia taut suddenly slackens And none of the consulted prophecies illuminate the pattern.
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Crocuses
Dull, sunless months suffering penniless under coin-metred light Crocuses showing despite, sun-summoned Rice white the blindeye-like snowdrops probe impolitely Light-impelled, the breathless writer so lacking in editors Slathers menacing patterns upon the mud abutting the delta Stars not unlike me on the underside of the robe of night. Go out and shine no matter how…
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Yellow fools
Daffodils are back Striving up through cracks in frosty patches Undoing their seasonal spinal snaps Regaining sap, decollapsing synapses Beautiful dope-addicted lightbulbs Lamplings and Spring champions, up early, long necked Nodding off again, wilting like tranqed sauropods.
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December forever
Cautioned that it’ll be curtains soon. Auntie interviewed a nuclear weapons specialist on the news at ten Only caught the end but it stuck. His curtness. The blows uncushioned. Struck by the speaker’s fretful manner when discussing The shameful direction we as a species had taken I sat up in bed, leant closer Oceanblue boxlight…
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Branded
Come and go at my leisure Spreads her legs for my pleasure Need three rulers for manhood measure, like it goes on forever Tight as a tether, mouth open like an umbrella in inclement weather Incoming supply, cast an evil eye, never forget a vendetta Used buy store brand now every day Viennetta Code or…
Alchemisland 