Tag: love
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Barnacles
Your enemies must think you useful, they must think themselves close friends You must always be in the state of remembrance, so deep you get the bends Where a cardinal plots his zucchetto my bay fringe flops across my forehead like a common comma, like the sloping tattoo a tide slops on a golden bay…
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Prying Off The Boards
Reveal of day like a long-sought, long-thought breast unveiled I seek only completion, a quest to fetch you We apes cannot help but lech near you, wretches and curs for and before you. Four of me before me Glass backdoors light-invaded populating like a cinema screen First one, no cuckoo’s nest Next two, towers ring-obsessed…
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Periphery Blue
Border blue Quiet surface I peer right through Fathoms deep, fathomless depths Bathing weights for sounding What you feel you swaddle like a foundling What I feel you smother like a changeling The kittens of my wants drowned in the blue burlap you made from Mary’s cloak. I see storms in you, shooing away storks.…
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Dead Elephants
Dead elephant flesh undrawn creaseless under ice Buried beneath Iveagh gardens Given fatal acid doses by jolly dopers, into-situation-ropers, haunting campuses with flyers Discordian opus printed at Jim Garrison’s HQ; when the president’s head blew that guy flew a few feet off the ground making his view askew He had seeds and gardened them, he…
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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…
Alchemisland 