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• LAND TENDED SINCE TIME BEGAN 

  Fields fertilised with blood from executed men Bloodmade mire, fen eels who tasted flesh In sight of verididerm Osiris Irish farmers plant Yankee praties in shallow lazy beds In sallow sedge, on the scarcest cragged edge of liveable land Upward tending land blasted with stone Handing over to rootless mountains of height beyond accounting Stickish,…

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• Creeping Out 

  Ornery odalisques slide like ice skaters around satyr-painted minarets Dressed in lusty reds, netted legs which could catch fish Rich, horny patrons sleeping still Payment bedside locker pockets Funds doctor trip, unguents parts poxed. Posterior (arse) parted, factory o’farts, palsied arsehole’s prick Never trust mans’ lips, they will sail ships to find you But twist…

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• Ships, Bay

  Upon waves, salt-treaded dreadnoughts waiting Arrayed ophidian riding greyling waves, feigning agitation Pavements along which finned men in scaled raiment remove Better to buoy them, stymying straying Here comes rain and it is good timing, rhymer’s arrival pleases troopers Who would constrain minds to matters trivial more than upcoming battle Hearing gleoman speak forebearer’s great…

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• Lightplay in June

  Drosoulites bright sky Dew of stars perhaps  Wormwood mark’d Lapsing dark’s deepest, lark’s dawnest wormward embark  Ark-upturned mound rounded hill, a fort in ancient time.

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• RED DOES WHAT 

  Heeding evidence Infallible science Red suggests  Violent ends  Reactive tendency heightened around crimson.

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