Tag: combat
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Violence of cavalry charge
Come to drain the boils of rancid cancer The needle wielding horsemen handsome Lancers on panting horses Coming down a painted mountain Like a flood coming to drown them On the backs of sweating four legged panzers Black breathy sweating panthers, lathered flanks like tough leather Sinewy legs, much rider and ridden faced together One…
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King of pugilists at prayer
Bait a jab, dip Clasp hands behind hips, lift From Keramoti to Thassos, boxers by dayglow go to heroic groves Clove-scented, seated on cloven stone cloven-footed one’s throne Overgrown with old foliage, foliate head emerging Flaxen hair a chervil mound, summoned by Amergin He most unservile, rilled nubile verdant Dante rootcheeked Atlantean Lord of leafed…