Tag: craft
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Spring Spells Summer Starts
Day of Bealtaine Shovelling it down, like trowel dinner Veil faint as paint thinner Ecstasy take 23 Dance until my heart seizes and I keel over Planes bird shadow white cliffs at Dover Those my soul goes over My easeful transit transatlantic Angels traffic skyways Coincidental highways My way or the jibe’s fake Cry your…
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Hidden Ritual
In 1971 the Devil released a book and an album After a millennium in the pit he had a head full of tunes Every good guitarist owing and betrothed Every decent singer owes him their throat’s gold Arousal at fame’s suggestion, their souls by deed his at the moment of their disposal All the pills…
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Sins of the Flesh
I think of my best clothes and they are on Inside my black jacket lining red as scarlet-snouted Anacreon Alacrity enhances your acceptance of invitation Your smile written citation I slink naked, clock my best clothes and they are off Upon the floor, finery’s trapdoor Stoking old loves angry spurned ghosts, host hating rewinding old…
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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…
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Protofaith
The first religion was a solar affair Mounds and light and grain and blood and sperm What will the last religion be? Beyond contemporary scientism The unutterable fusions Return of mediaeval thought Harmonies of humor, planetary music, sequences of linked spheres Philosophy, crafts and mystical logic The new knowledge will give birth to the first…
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Two poets arguing metre
Verses mode Before them sud streaked mugs five times drained Englanders using Guinness kegs to make acephalic pints A big rasher wearing a monk’s habit Too much ludicrousness for this reasonable world, Will you or Will I shake spears at it Spurned to speech, some event; speak, speak Shaking his speech appears as murmur disappears…