Tag: alchemy
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Hedge Alchemist
Leadbetter his work shed shines with spilled metal, mercury splodges like micah grown bold Burnt back wall above cauldrons and ‘lembics, lamptonlike their flasks like gleaming foils, boils over some ensorcelling admix, panacea’s anathema greenstone of disease At ease among dense tomes, archaic terms, okay with terms he signs a devil’s lease this hovel horrid…
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Forward March
Toward entropy tending wilting flesh Senescence essentialised what’s fresh Decays before day’s end what’s left Chaffe, loam to begin again Bereft of feeling and want for feeling Gaining false power by apathy Shock of new pyramid, open palm theremounds time’s sands Standing still for no man, like a fire as it stands Rearing revolting, frank…
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Lately Nights
Lying naked feel skin crawling with aphids Exhale it’s just the drugs Nailred wrist to scrape the bugs Thin as spread pat, stretched skin hints innards, wet bedspread spread out half off The bed in shadow the approaching danger Standing pat with potless pisses to wager Eyes rubbed until soliate discs burn, the blind man’s…
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Gold’s Gold
Isle of Jura, house of rabbits Fortune in the firegrate, wind displaced This place solemn and solitary Far on the fringes, in thrall of idolatry My eyes like Durer’s beholding Montezuma’s boons and treasures Beaten gold inches thick, the sun’s shape Lord of the world, known to the wordless and the wealthless Last to finish…
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Instructions for the Destruction of Ambitions
Ground down the green like shit alchemy sinks between the skins What I put in for my mind like a Mills’ pulled pin, slowed the worldspin Accedes to favoured pace Green fixed and skins licked and pasted like a clinker built ship sailing a basin Abasing myself at the altar of puns, whatever is rolled…
Alchemisland 