Tag: mythology
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Taking Under Advisement
Small, red-fleshed man sits Napoleon’s shoulder; destiny’s official Deigned command an Emperor, his missives success of missions, Ignore red man red fate endure, corpse of imminent boon grizzily hatcheted Russian factions lined like Risk troops, dice and action and warm jacketed. Breakfast chamber his tricorn tipped low, watery mush to the tip of the bowl…
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Homework
God mountain maker He takes his scales to everything and modifies the surfeit With an arch engineer’s autistic precision The spread legs of his vast compass form a darkening arch over the world. His works are balanced Light twinned to dark, exceeding it in number if not in boldness Craft built like the universe was…
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Nighteen
Finally a working man gambles profitably Able prophets predate their aeons Abel’s blood predated upon, the earth itself drinks itself. Prayed upon Soon prey the bull’s blood Pulls the King from the fool’s hood. Workmen have captured the ways and the devices: Those which the enforced illiteracy of the Druids protected, Those which the Mayan…
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Lore/Lure
An angel’s view of submarines: “Which leviathan this, of which His holy angels are ignorant?” Missing letters: Leopold Bloom, Narcissus Marsh’s daughter, Scrabble tile bag incinerated in house fire, recently blinded men, ripped mailbag
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Time
Minutes courting hours, men counting time Elaborate astronomical devices Saturnian monoliths, becogged, wrought of black iron and gold They say Time is running out Out of where? Frogs who when submerged in boiling water leap Content to languish in water brought slowly to boil Great fire of time burning us away Slow to start, our…
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