Tag: love
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Players Please
Skeleton finger hands limbering up above piano keys Attained by degrees these masteries Black and white in rank and file she prods songs from chess pieces Keratin traces every face along its length, rousing scales She plays one handed Her profiled eye like a sunfish side winks, old romantic Head nodding in drugged emphasis Another…
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Yellow Rose
She grows that garden rose Grows without control Sweet smells climb up my nose Everything goes on under my nose Without my knowing. She is a rose Her billowing robe flows like abundant sap Chinese female gold, her dress is yellow orpiment Her shift in yellow also, gem of the orchard She is a scorching…
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Armoured Goodbye
He is wearing armour Whispering romance languages Sands stop seething through time’s vial, all is languid Mo chara, mo chroí, amor Tomorrow, ámararch, I march without sorrow You will die, she protests, Mairbh I go the way of all flesh and all armadas In the ground and beneath the sea They trade claddaghs He goeth…
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Mrs Dempsey
Speak plain before you, no plans Here because I love my mam I’ll say it with open hands, eyes on palms I gesticulate the psalms She’s open hearted I think I am too, apple never falls farther I’m the child who came after disaster Wild but eventually mild, we have laughter Now but then it…
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NeuromancerNewRomantic
Covering in piercings and tats, your towering hair a follicle Babel’s tower suspended with red dax wax You look more cybernetic synthetic than hot goth chick, elastic and made from disparate parts Desperate measures for like times, I drink ten rum limes line them up twice fives until I park Myself on your apartment couch,…
Alchemisland 