Tag: military
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Desertion Before Actium
Elven lemon sky Ionian Sea Roman killing Roman, Juno’s griefful heaving stirred seas Flux disease and desertion distilled Antony’s ranks to truest champions Still they reckoned a reckonable force Skipper swearing fingers to his lips whffffphhhs signalling swift ship’s arrival Assuring no rival lyingly flies friendly flags, wolf in sheepen rag Long boathook like snake-choking…
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Chronicles of the Dusk Ages IV – Last Charge of the Ferrathian Glyders
They told no one their name that was not of their tribe It was I who slyly bribed their scribe, he saw I was not a rival but a learned man He could not speak it but took pen in hand and wrote it there on the animal-candied margin banding his annals Ferrathians of the…
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‘Namage
Flicking through LP liner notes on a beanbag chair, pushing back thick vines of grease-plaited hair Imagines his drafted friends laughing, thinking him daft and soft, no chance he’d have survived there. His headphones are like a chopper pilot’s, two leather danishes bunning his face His hands, fortunately bloodless as Pilate’s, tap the record’s sleeve…
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Lilly Put ’emhere
The journaled desires of long dead hedge apothecaries articulated in puzzling glyphs are now accomplished nightly, without fanfare, by means of remote control.
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