Tag: creation
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Recession of floodwaters, return of black lands
Beware of the dog sign in late July When the fertile Nile is rising Climbing up a duned horizon Effluvial waters grey and brown as are found brackish in old outhouses Leaving departure arrival a wake alluvial He has flown with his wounds from his tomb Three days entombed, he arises to bloom Osiris in…
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Black as loathing beholder
Seven years with Calypso in Ogygia for lost Odysseus, longing Ithaca Screen for eclipse that weaved dream Midnight Font delighting all believers All creeds heeded Fed by heathen light Shed by freezing stars, clothed in illusory flames Distances of ages betwixt. Seven planets willed into the crypt of the void Rilled moon life-devoid, former ocean…
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Voidlings ventswaddled
Spined and mindless, down deep Polychaetes with chitin horns Like mournful porcupines Abyssal plains occupying In deathly climes thriving.
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Hideous Incest Products
Scenes from Dante’s hell: Debris fell from the ceiling as in a peeling citadel Where dwell sisterwived patriarchs of the crown’s most distant, distended arms Life whose occurrence actively harms actor and audience, plauditless Utterly appalling Galling to behold Kept in golden holds Dead long before old. Mold mossing trees noble Wobbling abhorrents who deserved…
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Love, Bastard Love
Love’s language bruised plum purple prose Prudent also, eyes to future Tensed knee blessings Greedy piety dreaming riches teeming Love-fettered arrows sent at love-denying breast, impressing good sense Sentence mended not by mere sentences Pittance of grace leant loved heart hearing true word dearly meant Lifetime spend pursuing ending More amazing by half journeys. Men…
Alchemisland 