Tag: imagination
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OBSESSED
Puddled at own feet day’s end Evening disease day dreads dreaming Tree-threading breeze whispering secrets, slithering forth from Djinn sleep Strange things creeping below ocean cream, dead dreaming Knock boxbottom armchair arm to pop one Ox stubborn persist smoking despite doctor’s insistence stopping Coughing everytime I take a lungful Melville who captured best obsession’s gluttony.…
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Exams
Disgracing himself realm’s filth the lord of grapes come see what his followers sewn Examines what they have grown, appears to grow sad but says nothing Grape-hung gown hanging down like a wrinkleless mortuary drape obfuscating an obscened face Light beam injecting lethargic air with sentience Highlighting movement, corners highted irrelevant Trineing cloud lightning intellect…
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Making up
She sits on a wrinkled stool afront a scratched mirror, stirring admix Lather to visage affixes Wetting bristles circling China soapdish Blue and white spilled ink Irish sky miniature pictures of oriental temples, where stricture-bound monks, enrolled since infancy by orphandom, live structured lives away from potential criminal elements, awaiting happy endings, lending alms and…
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Leaving
Wan most at night Veins with desire alive Leaves skittering along treacherous muck-beaded cobbles Hob knees nobbly having shoved hoofs into boots shelters in a shop front, even he shocked, who saw the Lord’s fist knock his host from holiness Boreal sword cleaves Battered windvains stirred midnight life Watching through spitspattered windowpanes above a gaslit…
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Ayindreaming Death
Late night, Satan’s time Larks latent, awaiting dawnsaying Creatures cosy in lairs Tossing turning, placeless noises weeping vixen Faceless, hinted vision opened window Chair scraping like chary stray kitten across kitchen floor when no one else is in, summoning nodules along my skin. Settling down Weeded of glamours, freed havocs Hammers falling on sky as…
Alchemisland 