Tag: aliens
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Encountering another place
Lifelike shapes rose on mauve tails Light and freightless as a barren babyless Or a carriage to which Dick Turpin offered bag emptying terms Smooth surfaces, no nails Without rivet, marks of making, maker’s marks These arks, with ne’ry a buffering moment Start out across promiscuous stars Through mysterious bores open like a starving’s mouth…
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Nostromo Oh No
We’re in Aliens and I’m Ellen Ripley, plus or minus a few trips I survived when most went to the crypt with flesh ripped We’re in Aliens and you’re Burke, company man and worm Only cloak that you have turns, acid blood third degree burns Easier working with berks, don’t feel bad about being a…
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Chronicles of the Dusk Ages II – The Gleoman’s Story
They tell campfire stories of Noah Huzzar on his barded silver, Tintreachcogadh His quiet mountain home abode of ranging men, demesne of crop-dependents Depended on his protection Elected Lictor, his visored helm’s image fixture on every household altar His grand manse flanked by grated covers and lion gates Peasants, peons, freemen and serfs prayed to…