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• The Land 

  Badgered plants badge blasted heath  Lawns quartered fence between Planned out like Battenburgs spans betwixt Many hands wild horses flank, tracked with speedslime Mother nature affixed in brumal beauty Afflicting heather abundant Smothering eggshell plumage covers ruins  Broccoli tops jut out amongst rocks a was-roof consisted of  In derelict barns owls like reapers on long-armed rafters…

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• Nights Before Actium

  Before Actium in Egypt Fifteen years purgatory for Marc Antony, among bird-headed statuary Drinking whilst playing kingly chance games, discipline eroding steadily  Telling his men they must continue trusting him unto triumph “Jupiter will smite their ships, Set having sewn confusion among them We will feed them to the Nile, Sobek thence casts judgement Fear…

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• Smashed at Actium

  Gold much in Egypt Gods older than the foam which drank Atlantis Arch fantasist whose phantom hand called up every flower He toward whom all followers tend eventually Ear lender whose housing lobes empathic eternal paternal tenderness At disposal every power, every rotad hour known to he Oldest When ceaseless cleansing rains started, the heart…

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• Bloomsday

  By choice A lifetime reading Ulysses Still utterly clueless, please James Joyce Dim ayenbite of inwyt, we are dimwits To your deft pen, limn rift trip a dram sipper Nora bottom red be a slipper, Barnacle farty arse Stitched up like a Kipper His secrets, sutured fissure gone with the name of Jack the Ripper…

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  16th Jun 2024

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• Chronicles of the Dusk Ages III – Beliefs and Customs of Feathermen

  Virididerms with drawn faces from places you and I cannot place on any map Their mountains formed by ruins marking our world’s devastation They believe in diminutive elder races, first to walk the face of the earth Their faces were turned from Sol, they never returned from their subterrene halls Beneath the mounds, centuries sleeping,…

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  15th Jun 2024

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