Tag: life
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Go At It Agin
Master’s hammer on the table in the shadow of the mason’s apron Like a fleshbound book brown and thick, a brindled front Font of the sink he vomits into fond of drink, cider stink the carrot-clogged sink sings out for rinsing. Ag rince head ag snámh, no control of my lámh I only had seacht…
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Trysting and Resolved
Crying pistols at dawn down the dual carriageway Finger heavy with a jewel conferred marriageways Your strange ways vex me and these are strange days Blocks of sun-stealing flats where the bowler used to be Bowling for every birthday, arcade games when we’re sixteen Two quid pops at House of the Dead, to reload point…
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Jibes
Lambent, to win by wits keen Words measured and massed Of cruder sentiments shorn Long pruning, its trained growing Measured not by inch but metre Not unlike a poem read by a ruler Or a compass holder, its legspan Finds the hidden meaning Despite ignoring the light-pouring outpouring, beaming Like a pearl’s underside only God…
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SEA
Sea full of sharks and sailor’s shits. Our passage raise foam like fits. Twin arches shell clad an ocean M, The water in its stocks. Salt and stingray’s serrated estocs.
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Inheridance
Uranus didn’t like his kids, passed that onto Saturn Fathers give sons unwanted boons; cruel cosmic pattern. Life is a spear, long hard and kills you Life is a short walk to the graveyard you’ll go to Life ceaseless self-crewing cruise Life palimpsest of successive bruise Life endearing mystery, quest for goldsouled alchemy Life like…
Alchemisland 