Tag: imagination
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Weeping at the Cenotaph, bitter as the cud
Looking out from the highest window Gaunt regiment of flayed trees girdling her lonely tower Purging stones, sins that cure, lonely dismal sinecure Sign it all away Walls her grandfather raised marked the barony Jericho’s opposite, high walls and many years since sounding trumpets Amidst the crowd yet apart from the whole, she haunts the…
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Ward
Waking Curtains sweeping, ineluctable fulgent disc’s bombasity, squinting Sweet meat smell like pineapple-fucked pork Nurses fostering instruments in a bowl tray on wheels Big hall without partitions, can tell by the roof, gymnasium maybe, no hoops or icons of vigour Images of consecrants, newly hanged Lime coloured soaps dirty from the last man’s mawley Prints…
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Psyniper
Gunman peering out from the attic windows of my mind Barrel trained upon the station platform Train barrelling along tracks, his trained barrel stationary Platform civically politically, platform busy in train suspense He dims the lights, trainlights stark in darkness highlighting doubles Place of completed journeys, Zeus of disembarkation Delighting in alighting flighting toward the…
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Conflict
Did not sleep well last night Great din, gungaless, from the parlor Sherston’s mother communing with spirits Young Hamo dead at Gallipoli Did Eliott’s Aeschylus know him? Severely annotated copy of Goodbye To All That Melancholies of a fox-hunting man By war, Men harden Mars the sharpen Bard birther Mary Arden in Angland since Domesday.…
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Lore/Lure
An angel’s view of submarines: “Which leviathan this, of which His holy angels are ignorant?” Missing letters: Leopold Bloom, Narcissus Marsh’s daughter, Scrabble tile bag incinerated in house fire, recently blinded men, ripped mailbag
Alchemisland 