Tag: imagination
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Century’s injurious end
With the climate unstable Impatient seasons do not stay long Or delay overlong Until humid, drooping crops rot Without fixity, fluxing winter lasts a half year. During feared summer Acid rains quicklime once-sylvan demesnes Jettisoned for grim, austere tenements Through cracks in a haunted stairwell Farsighted kids stare out, that perilous without None save death-doubting…
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Washing of feet
Chiropidal lavabo Feet are bathed Father clothed in Son Pedilavium almost pagan seeming On a poxy overcast Maundy Thursday Feet streaked with street debris, soiled Lint-smudged ankles sweaty from toil Kneeling to my appointment Hands purified with honey ointment Licking a doily’s corner Faecal matter, strands of hay Blood from glass, I wash away Whey…
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Why bother?
Why should I bother? No one knows My silent audience plauditless Along plodding, verb-bodied Grendel Tossing men verbosely across longhalls Howling ferociously, returning to my fen. When I go and poes no more flow from me Weeping policeman calmed at last When great heaped cone of my effort turns over to a draining funnel And…
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Column of expired guises
Writing badly myriad types of poem Johannes Factotum scrolls unrolling In my nook My wisdoms like odes to toads’ beauty deface no quote book Meeting word quotients Alike thinking great minds Or rarely differing fools Of a Took Took down a leatherbound book Dense and unpleasant, inducing senescence Already sense’s lessening Tabulating fleeced sheep Minyan-chased…
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Cockrow Prayer
Mouthing orisons Opining nightdying Over spinesmountains Fountaining light Larks alighting Hares afrighting Chivalric shadow of rider riding.
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