Tag: mythology
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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…
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Lightning mighty from Zeus’ eyes
Thunder no less than lightning which like Poseidon’s fork trines Imagine the mind which conjured lightning Painted upon burgeoning night light streaking I must tombs break to engage my soubrette All mind hive of swirling spicules Spiked notules, modalities inescapably hostile Rabelais with Scrabble tiles Few words the dictionary didn’t reserve, none to the wise.
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Gaelic chieftains called to war
Praying away the sun Wearing no plate Neither glistening nor glimmering Shriving before all-knowing Dagda Lorefather seated at Síd in Broga. Highest casement descried Ancient hyperbole starchasing Charting firmaments blaze-gazed Bending royal Boyne thereby parades Men from lost continents Atlantean fashion and knowledge Heart center in our missing province High kings crowned Stone screaming sent…
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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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