Tag: poetry
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FIREJAW
Tell your soul burn whole The holocaust evidence of your caution. Lose hold, effusive faucet Gnawing, jawing side to side Like fires sawing in McCarthy’s writing. What silence sires can knight or defile; A sir, I rise thereby Assured that what I’m writing Somehow blurs assurance, spurns surety’s tidy; Assured that what I’m writing Somehow…
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Sightgift
Eyeless Gloucester in the cattery of his too idle mind Can no longer smile muster, nor idol thereof He mutters about old snubs His cruel lips drool glossed, boxing up unutterables. Lush moss pulses thronged the reducing statues.
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Ceaseless charge
What persists banks posterity. What languishes vanishes ere Our antisocially unreachable near future’s visiting ear appears. Lacquered night reminded amazed remarkers of mighty vases, Greek In style. The simple amazements we denied are retried; Rightly sized the glass slipper slides onto the right sister.
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Rite of closeness
Blood red sunset Mud crept up hem One step upset Something stolen From the grave of Set I’m OK, I’m upset A table set To appetite whet Trays laden with farmyard death Steaks, gravy, breads Snakes kiss-charmed her fatemaking breath Human heads. My retardant skin little brindles Her fire-mingled drakesigh’s promised death. I neither breaking…
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Memorising the rulebook of you
The brought-down mood The ice I produce. Due frostbite for upwarders sufficiently audacious to shoelessly climb. Communion concludes when poundfool Sol tosses coins into the room Tormented by a lossless memory, forbidden forgetting: I remember your rules. This midden century toured with you, along the landfill route The kissed kettle, the breathed metal, the misspelled…
Alchemisland 