Tag: ireland

• James Joyce Vampire Direction

  Thanatological inclinations push me from my bed Sanguine susurrations, your blood sings to my head My patience like thinning mercury, my tightening grip Orgiastic flashes of wounds and dripping whips When I’m done his blood gets drained Leave bleak crime scenes men get insaned His claws brandished but his body maimed Bellied blood swims, his…

  alchemisland

  7th Nov 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets

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• Future is Thick

  Cruel gangs bisect the turf Skinahans lot in the Beacon South Quarter Scartel everything between Aungier Street and the Liberty Stone Liberated from a Church Normandy named, sitting before boss’ throne A symbol to which fealty is offered Young lads swearing they have no skin in the game Cheffed up, found eyeless, no skin hung…

  alchemisland

  2nd Nov 2023

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• Wolf

  Illegible prophecy of uncanny accuracy  Tarot spread for bloody centuries Death, The Tower, The Knight of the Long KnIVes Liza’s lancers fear O’Neill’s men They refuse charges, citing fear of damnation No quotient of thrashings arrest their recalcitrance O’Neill’s whiskered kernes harbour wolf knowledge In Ossory, near Boris, cynocephalic regiments train arms Attaining ungodly athanasia…

  alchemisland

  2nd Nov 2023

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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…

  alchemisland

  27th Oct 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets, wyrd mythology

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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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  27th Oct 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets

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