Tag: ireland
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Ditch sniper
Generating enemies, berthful spurts I radiate irradiate hatreds I am poundless, ponderous, and patron Languishing beneath Ionic columns writing iconic Everything indelible, smoking more chronic than fatigue syndrome Wearing fatigues, reposed prone in a roadside boghole Ditch the ditch when I see Brits, index finger rebeckoning on the switch Burn it like was a witch,…
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Dark woods, Dante vanquished
Last night having supped With a modest cup proposed to compose My plans were soon scuppered by an interloper’s arrival Wind which kind ructions Blusterful cheeks bearded Boreas all mustered A casement closed at the latch explodes open Fumbling ecstasy, mumbling vexation chasing pages across the room Pages full of heretofore unseen quotations Solicitations to…
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Red dream
The Mersey turning red in Jung’s dreams At last throbbing rubedo of neural alcheme Schizophrene hippocrene by litre, deleting swathes of me Insisting void upon trackless maps, pathless impassable Seed of He divine nonefiner who wrote Ulysses Diver descrying pearls divers, alas his daughter downgoing drowns.
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Town Drunk
One among us 32 rungs up Jacob’s Ladder Rum-drunk gin junkie in sulky cups, his sullen sulcus sodden A silenus in wanton His ruddy complexion a lumpy, bumpy skein of dinosaur hide Trapped in the Montana Sand Sixty five million yeas before Christ died, lying waiting. His tapering nose alike an awl Encompassing his own…
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Goddess milk
Dressed as mortals might but could never Dressed as and of the sea Troy-bound triremes odyssey across bluegreen dress Eastgoing westfromers foamgoing Her skin the white horses decreasing to diminution At the lapping enfolding shore, where beachcombers Stow cuttlefish bones periwinkle shells in shawls and sodden burlaps Occident’s orient, backward’s front Facade of the willingly…