Tag: light
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Light and hopelessness
Every breath wrestles phlegm before exiting Having sword not will therewith to swing Falling to lesser enemies, head full of magic beans Dreaming beanstalks and Jack-stalking giants Giants who smell Englishmen welcome in the IRA With mad dogs and Anglo-Saxons in the sun’s final hours Rays unafraid despite day’s shortening, brighter therefore in spite Pale…
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Witches on the strand collecting ritual rudiment
Acrid smoke the witch’s alembic bubbling opal High prizing simulacrum, correlate with a victim On the beach before dawn in wintertime Hauling logs seaweed-spined several miles To the furthest skull-strewn span of deeded land. Visiting stars insistent, dead the hands who lit them Liminal vignette’s trippy nipple coloured sky, tides fried cerulean By insistent centrifugal…
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Lavabo
Martello Tower on snotgreen Though we no more fear Napoleen Saint Stephen’s stoning Twenty three murder’s number Twenty sixth, Christ amanger be Mangy animals bleating, sent inside Myrrh barely covering manure scent Lá an Dreoilín, this year Dé Céadaoin Draoí and éan combine, in mind Stirring mystical archetypes Fairy tissues wishful on trees. Lather in…
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Cretan Paintings
June’s formative days Learning to walk as the Nile floods Phoenix squawking, leaving Amenti’s Halls Where hooded seers practice foresight, healing They peel back foreskins, hood which hides Revealing what they call the leaking eye Bawling cloudy diaphanous Opium Chinaman’s nightcap rope To otherworlds, powerful agent in workings Seen every solar sojourn Creeping into Cretan…
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Mount of Olives
Atop Mount Scopus Looking down at Jerusalem In bygone days them Barred entry took to that redoubt Treating themselves to a painful glimpse Entreating themselves, tears well in wince Atop Mount Scopus. Close indeed to moon in Scorpio Mount of Olives Host of cedar Hunting ground of Demeter A clasped hand bars the door The…
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