Tag: faith

• 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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  11th Apr 2024

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• Citrinitas

  Yellow as a bellow’s charge Nothing mellow about it Aggressively bright, solar redolent Blindness conferrer and ultimate pedant It awaits reddening, his readied admixes remedies of maladies Along the axes of nameless stars plots quare voyages His applicants are highborn, autarchs of rare import, extinct vintage Light and not unlike a bowl of cocaine, strained…

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• Gospel/Go Spell Go

  His profitless enterprise Sickly King’s boils dire need of lancing, neither Holly nor Ivy The water we need boiled scarcely lukewarm He prises the skin apart and his hot needle enters Thick, slow-sliding goop slides down his bicep like a stabbed egg’s centre The excess humor first black as a puma, then grey and chunky…

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  11th Apr 2024

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• Nigredo 

  Nigredo, I upbraid the man I cast I cast out the shadowed mass My shadow falls, alas, comes back Tracking decomposition, hunter hunts death itself A dose in the jungle, wretch-racked death of self My hurt’s eagle zenith an eyrie eerie pyramid Deep deep deep below Lake Moeris my soul fins it hands Finds its…

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  7th Apr 2024

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• Milk Pales 

  Its inhalation akin to unwashed pails below July sun Stink reaching Daddy’s wrinkling nostril Me lying before he even made to cast a stone, assuring guilt sits my bones Daddy, before you say it, I washed them milk pails now y’hear? A different man sheds a tear, beats him here like a Christian Brother upon…

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  4th Apr 2024

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