Tag: alchemy

• Gospel/Go Spell Go

  His profitless enterprise Sickly King’s boils dire need of lancing, neither Holly nor Ivy The water we need boiled scarcely lukewarm He prises the skin apart and his hot needle enters Thick, slow-sliding goop slides down his bicep like a stabbed egg’s centre The excess humor first black as a puma, then grey and chunky…

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  11th Apr 2024

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• Albedo

  White as twelve ivories White as the moon’s eye White as the dying White as runic lightning White as Papal garb White as paper sheaf White as a chasuble White as delight, charity, merrity, rare nobility White as albumen White as Algernon White as studs along Orion’s belt White as the skin around your welts…

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  11th Apr 2024

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• Completing A Tragic Jigsaw

  A conspiracy of banded diamonds Needles threaded, their hum or silence alike spells violence Like things divine, they communicate through subtle signs An eyebrow raised, a shoulder lowered Without a syllable they uttered murder Come not to Cumbria seeking covens It’s below your roof they’ve taken cover The fourth leaf of their clover is removed…

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  10th Apr 2024

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• Spiralling

  On that James Shelby Downard spiral Every one of my rivals on Illuminati payroll They harass cowans, and praise Osiris They keep on top me using mystical toponymy Placenames imbued with power, if you believe Sheer awesome triangulating ability Yellow curse-haunted fareastern city Subterranean church of the retard undergod Kingly corntomb of the dawn day…

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• Nigredo 

  Nigredo, I upbraid the man I cast I cast out the shadowed mass My shadow falls, alas, comes back Tracking decomposition, hunter hunts death itself A dose in the jungle, wretch-racked death of self My hurt’s eagle zenith an eyrie eerie pyramid Deep deep deep below Lake Moeris my soul fins it hands Finds its…

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  7th Apr 2024

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