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• Bishop gloved in freshness 

  In choked nave, peasants craning For better sight. Removal of stains Ewer draws puring mithril from a silver basin  Subdeacons astride their Primate Christfire beacons gyring inside Like a Pilate, his hands washed  Doused in rosewater in sight of the people Beneath God’s steeple Purified thereby prosphoron for problems probes Oil of catechumens Essence of…

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• Circuitous monomania

  I am cursed to write over and over the same poem Once-vivid stanzas, now limpid and self-insistent Verbs ham-fisted, butchers stuffing apples into pigs Overloved bard’s heart’s overlord demanding again the same ode Had we more Homer we would see a shared curse, perhaps worse They had seen it once, they had seen it a…

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• Wolf of you me-eating

  Your wolven eyes undress me  Glaived vestments hang open Like overpacked bags stoven In tendril and in rag fastened Below gristle, animate duress Hunter’s flensing knife your breath  Against me peeling away my flesh. Wolf of you me-eating Bulk of view’s points disagreeing Demolition, each others’ overseeing A metre stick’s distance between us a cheetah…

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• Looting

  History circuitous, repetitious For the Irish, rarely surreptitious As rights rise like tides of changing ages Venice’s cancer’s final stage From sacred hollows mystical weapons are pried Durandal pulled from stone and stolen, like Scone’s stone How long until Thule and Horbiger’s icebox are taught in schools? Of the lance of Longinus, spearing Eden’s seed…

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• St. Stephen, no wren friend

  Somewhere in Dublin a frigid forecourt in storm North King Street worming behind Four Courts Wet catchyourdeath chill alright, oldtown silhouette Later belching towers’ll smoulder there, giant cigarettes Nearby St. Stephen’s lazaret Outside which stabbed faction fighters are left after a decent Donnybrook Melee broke out, two villages a single scrimmage Such blood spillage a…

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