Tag: occult
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Sligo
Here every gatepost is one Yeats leant against It’s like they’re obsessed, facades wearing fragments of stanzas Strangers mates you haven’t met yet, enemies friends kept at breast He’ll be a second coming now he’s gone, due after Godot, gone with winds he worshipped His cold eye cast like a spell, his grave aligned to…
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Sins of the Flesh
I think of my best clothes and they are on Inside my black jacket lining red as scarlet-snouted Anacreon Alacrity enhances your acceptance of invitation Your smile written citation I slink naked, clock my best clothes and they are off Upon the floor, finery’s trapdoor Stoking old loves angry spurned ghosts, host hating rewinding old…
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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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Lorebrandisher
Every blade two sides the stoved hoards cleft by my Jove sword Smashed at Djahy the sea peoples, horned helms wave-stolen Red foam the rivers, delighting Sobek’s kin, devouring the deads’ skin Jah he spoke through Selassi imperial preference divine communion Thessaly Where Princes go for quests, ram-obsessed uncles hell bent on dominion, crown kept…
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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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Cernunnos
This feast Cernunnos made for you Incense peels temporary wraiths, gyring to gladetop Deep drain circling blood thrice cough He hath prepared it mindfully knowing all things, toward some hidden end Past a heaving, heathen throat stings Deep drain toward higher purpose. In woods he told me I have seen him dancing More often this…
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Midnight Things
Midnight shape of horrible love Improfound improprieties ignobility ingenious igneous infallibility inessential ipsissimus inchoate iridescentdestitution ignatius ingress investiture inseam instep out of step U ugliest vowel You fairest nyad, pearl diadem holding salt droplets fairer than diamond Assaulting sensuality radiating from your death-moist stinger Macehead of your tailtop, baleful but tameable Midnight sound of falling…
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Future is Thick
Cruel gangs bisect the turf Skinahans lot in the Beacon South Quarter Scartel everything between Aungier Street and the Liberty Stone Liberated from a Church Normandy named, sitting before boss’ throne A symbol to which fealty is offered Young lads swearing they have no skin in the game Cheffed up, found eyeless, no skin hung…
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Psyber
Shock ignites the breaker board Awakened at midnight, his impatient nixsynthesis His fixtures enable him to realise the past Smudges along the windows, barely discernible He tends toward the room’s left-hand side Souls snared by bright blazes; his cyclopean camera’s aperture repeeling itself like a cyborg orange Gently tracing a blood stained lintel, his fingers…