Tag: mythology

• The Liffey Thing

  From April 23 1983 Irish Independent article by Peter Cowan Archaeologists have described the largest Viking graveyard ever to be excavated in Europe outside Scandinavia as a “significant find”. Pottery, stirrups, and locks were found during preliminary trenching at Dublin’s Phoenix Tunnel. ACI were notified when workmen found high numbers of topsoil artifacts. Foreman K…

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  28th Aug 2023

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• Short story: Somme Nambulist

  To the reader, sonic partnership for your journey through the codex: https://alchemisland.bandcamp.com/track/somme-nambulent-i 1916. The violent tapestry of a red century’s troubled childhood is invisible beneath the bloodstains. The war which was to end before Christmas drags on into its second year of breakless harvest. On the shattered continent the rutting stags of European royalty vye…

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  25th Aug 2023

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• Deep Assignments Run Through All Our Lives

  Old Troy of the DMP  Old Troy a ruin, a heap  Middens where stood temples, among motionless flagless priapic poles Ropes pulled down the stone sword of Aries Broken on the broken flags  A millennium of shards Stone flood spreading outward across the floor  Across the world a milipedinous avatar of concrete twists itself Bookbinder…

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  21st Aug 2023

  Filí my pockets, wyrd mythology

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• So Ends The World

  Things that are realized fully only by their undoing, or whose zeniths shortly precede their desistance: Sun, proudest at the dimming of its ever returning glory, stretching to fill the horizon the expanse of its scouring wingspan, nightly dead and daily risen. Warriors, fiercest amidst a hateful throng set upon their demise. They are wasted…

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  21st Aug 2023

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• Mapless Codex

  Howling crotals Mithraic exsanguination Extravasations of essential claret Screaming whistles  Whistling slings pregnant with brow destined stones Fragments describing lost texts  Imaginal codices  Immense tracts containing nothing Digression within digression within digression Death  As a prelude to  Birth Intestines sweating in the fire  Altar black from use 

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  21st Aug 2023

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