Tag: fantasy
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Hand of the Autarch
Flower of many petals peeled by my hand I remove books from church canons With gauntleted hands I carve glyphs drawing rifts between planets I have ridden strange axes through black places At collapsing dwarves oversaw phasing deaths of galaxies like galleys vast-masted reduced to flotsam by fantasy weapons.
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Model Not Territory
Ptolemy’s model followed geocentric principles Earth as sun centre around which spheres rotate uniformly as ships in typhoons, along circles split like zodiac glyphs At the epicentre the sun housing the earth Divinely plotted prescribed orbits to fit solar alignments are called deferents These are fenced and intersected by smaller circular orbits called epicycles By…
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Eastern Dreams of Sand-Strewn Elysium
Near the eyrie of a minaret from where mage-capped ziggurats are miniscule Teacher pupil school: Fisher hauls in his net His son grabs one end to help A hundred mackerel a cast eye assumes. Up here flies zooming like flying carpets, city rotting carapace of a dog carcass Catacombs to ark ever-mounting bones resemble halls…
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Descriptions of Places Espied on Infernal Journeys in Hell
Vilest prince vomits upon the eyeless Orichalks upon the eyelids of Thomas Aquinas His stench arises as smoke from pyres, burning tyres Gyring liar spirits Tiring lyre songs, the pile that is sleeping Cerberus The shade that is oldwise Tiresias, black as the sails of Theseus Pain wheels greased with blood, on which the living…
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The King Must Have Intercourse With A Horse
Mass to grove gods given in the deep motte, ashes impressed onto the brow and chest in blessing Twisting trees like matted hair on a woodwose breast, the sacred whore undressing The crown-conferring horse is led into a storm of golden confetti Her setting mimics that of a horse inviting, a cover of shear netting…
Alchemisland 