Tag: ireland
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Trials, Tribulations, Trillions of Miles Yet
I’m a blind man and until Jason’s argonauts cast nets was highted mad saying, “Harpies stole my bread.” Red as yesterday’s paper, red as toothclaw Red as a cutter’s right-hand knifehand kinch the knifeblade dismayed mulling over rough beast Yeats’ Buck Bethlehem Mulligan’s word beastly Red as raptor’s bloodstained dewclaws Red as Somme soil, red…
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BEFORE WHAT?
Before putrefying giant flesh gave breath to new worlds Before birds gorged on the innards of fire-looting Prometheus Millenia before Milesians keen for her grand verditure, virgin earth green as Eden verdant viridian urgent throbbing unguent for sun men whose sand isles defy seeds to try sprouting High in mountains a fastness, thereby where a…
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Puck Fair Puck Head Off
Number one, King Pecker Dunne If Spotify had him, England’d be didded gone inside an hour Power of sixty minutes each pushing around the circumference of Cronos’ slavery orange All is aflower Hours since sense last spoken, sentences rewinding like snagged reels Reaching pure sentiment, telling everyone how much they mean Talking about reinstating royal…