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Relentless October
Relentless October Colder, wishing it over The world looks older, scrapes like poor ogham along a mason’s old apron This Winter’s wizened, ice-crystalled visage April is far and all fancy glamours of field and plant abjure standard Groves sworn eternal at Summer’s turn, lovers swarming like linnets To a burn, trysting, moaning for minutes in…
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oathoathoathoath
Utter the words of the covenant All I covet proffered, I scoff down I scoff at the reading of proverbs Prophets preaching the virtues of poverty Happy to engage in murder and robbery If it increases the value and portfolio of property Betray and they make of you a mockery Left hanging off Blackfriar’s, pockets…
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Dead
In borrowed clothes, robes my mother told me, swore, I would grow into wearing, my brother who died in a foreign war Foreswore his oaths, he is the oat sewn, the cornstalk grown Tall and golden only to be mowed down gallingly in once-Gaul He was fair and handsome and beloved by all, the priest…
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