Tag: fiction
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Ishtar
It’s Berlin the museum Eight gates separate the great from the dust The eighth adorned with animal faces, graced with sky hues rubies and jacinths Adjacent the golden steps of great temples There is no complacent way to tend an eternal flame The frame of the world, its high lofty domes, made them fine architects…
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Septuagint
Seven pillars the grace of Islam Seven seals the rage of His lamb Seventy seems plenty but not when there’s only seventy left Seventy seven sent heavenward Seven days but before them what word? Seven he made like lion and eight nine A seventh of it is iron Seven plus five spies out of Zion…
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Martha Tames The Tarasque
A hand with chores, Lord, all I ask But Mary took the right true path Holy saint Martha saw her brother raised Came to France after, tamed a Tarasque Led by its neck with her satin sash In the square with knives they slash Doomsday she shoots up from her grave A royal masque and…
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Burgeoning Samson
When my hair first grew out They said I didn’t know you were a man Spit of your mam They would say excuse me ma’am Nothing could calm me Balm this gender burn Even a worm will turn. I heard Navajo trackers lose their gift with their hair The windtalk that favoured then silence in…
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Cats and Dogs
Kitten got a subscription to a library of stories, had to give up life for it Cat o nine tales Last night courting immortality I took a dose of silphium; still feel em I wanted Olympian power, a swimmer’s prowess through the clouds Stationary finding a still freedom, my pills I don’t need them My…
Alchemisland 