Tag: healing
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Upright Now
Nothing nice about sobriety Christ, I miss the highness When it rained, I realized my crown was made of paper It sagged, warped, then melted away, my pride faded I was getting faded daily Hacking up stubborn lugies then mortaring them over the railing Every day toking cutting down the tree of me The worms…
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Garden healers
Loment doctor Chaff-flower Devil’s horsewhip lopped Makes cough’s curative For colds sneezewort Celandine for warts.
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CLIMES ANTIENT
Wart-warping eclandines Xanthine clump among meadowsweet Streetless plains sprawling Streakless chalkboards like scrying mirrors Crying out for scrawling adornment Galling runes gored upon house borders Like bored veldt spiders treaded well-drawn ink.
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Children dancing to death, cursed by Vitus through Osiris
Rufous priests cedartaller, ancestors Irish pirates, summoning cancers Blisters boils weeping pus, shaking hands lances them Bubbling bubos, those waiting shaking so fit to burst Stretched convex dome palm’s width pus-filled Dead skin cells which could neither escape nor be ingested, thence slow green marking infection Wound fresh flesh tender still, it is better to…
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Healing Powers
A seventh son so his hand heals, he feels the wound a suture sealed Draws a wince, his princely manner becalms, he prescribes drams of homemix Gnomic diagnoses, remedies from his old index of herb lore, forgotten ologies and indeed forgotten maladies Powders to harden sleeping priapics, pricks with narcolepsy He is the necromancer over…
Alchemisland 