Tag: imagination
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Longlegs
The sea’s heaving breast The spread compass shadow Passing beneath the statue’s legs Belief is beggared The Colossus shocks with breadth Rocks heavy with wrecks beg caress The foot-swept deck wet Sleek and hope-pregnant yet The swan sweep of that vessel, going west All the whizzbang barracuda-toothed cogs Marking this machinous, rustbleak century Like dog-eared…
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Filthdawn
Damaged sky everycolour Buttery and smudged Fudged utterly Hues so lovely Pastels so eye-floodingly wondrous Could only signal some end’s beginning Night frightening and bright Night, a lid, shattered Like a glass tortoise sent warward Revealing the home of the law In broad, raw technicolour Like a hawaiian shirt some fat cop wore Red flaring…
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Expected Spectacle
The future, crabs in a bucket Oil sludges, moving sluggish Through city stormdrains Shimmering puddles Pulsing Rome cloak purple and daffodil John Brunner Summer With Blade Runner weather Muckers going numb, going under Their suicidal thunder spin cycles the towers Themselves peopled by psychos You know them, a certain type Who might go there, who…
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Minuses
Chill night marking miles Mike’s just a chill guy Hands down the pockets of my ill strides Cold out so soles chilled of my slides Sliding along a meandering mirror High snow banks to either side Skaters eighting the ice-encased river Carving amazing shapes for avians Proceeding without delay Won’t you stay with us for…
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BIRDCROWNED
Hooded ravens like sable priests Branch pulpits, sylvan sermons Where the river swerves Ancient faces, opaque and shapely Like women from a faded mosaic Beauty untamed, pagan Stained, sporting abrasions
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