Tag: mythology
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Gold’s Gold
Isle of Jura, house of rabbits Fortune in the firegrate, wind displaced This place solemn and solitary Far on the fringes, in thrall of idolatry My eyes like Durer’s beholding Montezuma’s boons and treasures Beaten gold inches thick, the sun’s shape Lord of the world, known to the wordless and the wealthless Last to finish…
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Instructions for the Destruction of Ambitions
Ground down the green like shit alchemy sinks between the skins What I put in for my mind like a Mills’ pulled pin, slowed the worldspin Accedes to favoured pace Green fixed and skins licked and pasted like a clinker built ship sailing a basin Abasing myself at the altar of puns, whatever is rolled…
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House of Life
Enamtila ejects the next to face the sages’ fetch quest Tests mettle the trials of life, love’s unslaked thirsts unbuilt nests Nothing left to take to breast, my hard-impressed flesh irons with age Everything therewith bored; some hear angel song but I hear footfall on boards Thrills his querents with paths through, judges debating seasons,…
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Hymns to Lofty Enlil
Enlil, you drew together impossible chords Knots hitherto undreamt, progenitor of dreams Tarsus upon which Enlil sets his armies That nations comrade between his seas Pleases, unleashed his leashed creation Least of flesh and most of mind, mind’s golden mean Lasting not long the leaves of language, Gilgamesh his lands flees Dozen deeds done, his…
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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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