Tag: poetry
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Lighter flick
Leaning my paper horn into wheel-roused light Night-dispelling Djeep lighter Like a rhino moth self-immolating, singeing sins I creep higher How many recessions I sessioned through Sticking skins throughout the pandemic, trying to give lungs helmet The words surprise my vision but a fissure betwixt, thick vincula My pungent stick like Stephen’s Mullingar ashplant ferries…
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Caught in a net
I am Dictys, on deck like a casette or undived divers pearl-minded Airtanks shining, shrining their delicate survival beneath the brine Wine of the Flood, Wine of God’s Cruelty, forty nights capsizing Drowning mountains, crowning seas, fulfillment of prophetic pregnancy Solar lips kissing a trapped fish, real-time rictusing Heat such as cat’s hissing arouses from…
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Mulligan the Merman
Hopelessly addicted to the liminal Gripping waves I cannot swim against Sinjen Gogarty merman leap from yon martello parapet unto the deep Forty feet to be aesthete about it Cease mockery, medical Dick and Davey, and save me Hoiking me, releasing from Neptune’s keeping Back to strand and dry land, reinflating me upon sand.
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Marlowe’s Tamburlaine
East of Greece in Iran, then Persia To the lips of the rulership called Persepolis I am plotting Cosroe in the shadow of my brother, King Mycetes I will have a Greek treachery, a Cretan betrayal. A brother’s burial No timber horse No ankled fletch No sacked Illium No ten year quest No backgoing West.…
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Ruins of the space nursery
Our sky all it contains Canopy a galley’s bottom Ere-expanding reach Elements mimic each Fire eminent as storm Wind like pasture Salvation a thousand years away Chaos reigning thereafter. Abandoned spawning pits Thrones of lichen Overgrown, eczema’d with climbery Otherworldly foliage violently-spined Climbing salvage rusted ginger Things one finds only at some sylvan sphere’s unreachable…
Alchemisland 