Tag: mythology
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Newmoon newme newwings
Wings grew when my weed grew When in Rome, do as Romans When in Athens, cast your ballots Thinking hard, Athenian leanings Wake from a nap wondering is this not Knossos Greek ceilings, banded with La Téne knotwork Thinking about adding freizes, sea scenes Poseidon’s beard steaming, streaming Stringed with pearls, Lisa Simpson seeming Delian…
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Weedy heady dreamy sleepy
Got a dog stoned on Culainn’s stoop Green Istari wizard Tolkien’s illuminati of Illuvitar In appendices lonely Me and Bombadil for real ones only Smoking bits broken off Old Man Willow Got that green in large amount Nugs big, each one I’m keeping count Like fangs smilodoning below my snout I got that green, fumigate…
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Raiding in blue
Caked, tugged at, sucked back, slowgoing, wading Lost Tommies shelldefeaned leadpregnant Advancing slowly whilst grenaded Man insane to go against machines Without officer’s baton and ironed strides. Imagining ranks of young Frenchmen Artists and teachers, future lynchpins Of society and pillars, perhaps, some Sons prodigal, the rum-dumbed But none death deserving None so numb to…
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Caught in a net
I am Dictys, on deck like a casette or undived divers pearl-minded Airtanks shining, shrining their delicate survival beneath the brine Wine of the Flood, Wine of God’s Cruelty, forty nights capsizing Drowning mountains, crowning seas, fulfillment of prophetic pregnancy Solar lips kissing a trapped fish, real-time rictusing Heat such as cat’s hissing arouses from…