Tag: paganism
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Healing Powers
A seventh son so his hand heals, he feels the wound a suture sealed Draws a wince, his princely manner becalms, he prescribes drams of homemix Gnomic diagnoses, remedies from his old index of herb lore, forgotten ologies and indeed forgotten maladies Powders to harden sleeping priapics, pricks with narcolepsy He is the necromancer over…
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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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Govt
Parade of haemophiliac leaders, left tending cheeks like cutlets losing form in deep time Tipped back heads allow privileged nostrils to sharkfin the air, an element of their inheritance Their clotless blood, their alien dentistry, Gigeresque facial symmetry Orthodontics by the Mengele Institute for the Furtherment of Argentinian Dental Order
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Opposatia
Isle of horned females Pool of augmented horses, befinned squamous hippodrama Orchestra of opposites Facing audience, harp wielding cellist conducts Clumsy conductors plunk out nameless reels Mewling lion cornered by vengeful gazelle Wise man licks fish-burnt thumb and loses all knowledge When the music’s over I have to face the audience I have faith.
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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…
Alchemisland 