Tag: poetry
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Short distances
Who can forgive Apology ungiven Silently sleighted Inwardly simmering. Both in the quiet living room Like a place of gloomy piety Miles millions between us loom Bed like a tomb, inch two. Between us, marooned In my own life, lost island Stirring thereby neither skyward pilot Nor privateer, galley rammed with rifles. Together by oath…
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I’m sorry
For my cub selfishness Impish self importance For behavior abhorrent Which your eyes recorded For my impetuousness For my pedantry For my pathetic need to impress.
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Wolf of you me-eating
Your wolven eyes undress me Glaived vestments hang open Like overpacked bags stoven In tendril and in rag fastened Below gristle, animate duress Hunter’s flensing knife your breath Against me peeling away my flesh. Wolf of you me-eating Bulk of view’s points disagreeing Demolition, each others’ overseeing A metre stick’s distance between us a cheetah…
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Shouldering Blame
Proseless beholder, with ear Cornwall’s Regan, with Lear Castaway, mice playing gaily at awaying cats Splayed on sands sacred to Bastet Anne Hathaway hath awayed Impained of heart, assized Surmised a thing taken lightly, a trifle Were not those lips mindful archers asking Fletch me amarous arms, basking in milk musked mine Let murrains tepid…
Alchemisland 