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Ringfort, inner wall
A place in stasis, where time is stalled Ancient mazes, and trunk-thick walls Even the drunkest thick applauds Offering plaudits to ancestors, whose ancient Gods Were of field and forest, bring hods to the old bog Bring the nippleless king, seeking the sog; all this and more I saw At the Hillfort in Rathgall The…
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Spells designed to enter and return from Hell
Casting the runes I’m always the last left standing in the room With my satchel, gathering rudiments from shattered tombs Descending through porous roofs into the amorphous dark stonewomb I lick at moist fronds, I knew where they grew Scattering the bones Ruining the roads all leading to Rome Bleeding, bleeding poems Razorlips teasing out…
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Dark in Dark’s Clothing
Puzzling fogs descend from the fen Symbols, omens and signs of the end Grinding locks and cogs, ninth of the ten Rancid meats hurled from Eastern skies, high tides Tithes and tied bonds, tendering of debts, surrendering to death Downward, downward tends the West, the fallen crest The millionth coin toss so it lands on…
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Plundering a Masterpiece
Numerologists praising lucky elevens and sevens Numbing numbers puzzling and unbecoming, potent despite Like witch-stirred potions brewed on rare moon nights, enabling flight Impossible by rights yet I thereby gliding despite Without spite, purely to satisfy and blight with blithe smiles One slight, short in height, a self nothing denied since it brushed motherthighs An…
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Cursing the Oppressors
Apollo and python A sporting lord And wielded change and lightning chains Who enjoyed cavorting with human sorts Despite his wife’s jealous, green-tinged eyes blazing Queenly Athena, shed no fierce tears at your frieze’s fleecing Turn your molten heart freezing and curse the disruptor’s penis Cast shadows where the shoulder-stroking light of Venus lends warm feeling…
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