Tag: poetry
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Making up
She sits on a wrinkled stool afront a scratched mirror, stirring admix Lather to visage affixes Wetting bristles circling China soapdish Blue and white spilled ink Irish sky miniature pictures of oriental temples, where stricture-bound monks, enrolled since infancy by orphandom, live structured lives away from potential criminal elements, awaiting happy endings, lending alms and…
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Leaving
Wan most at night Veins with desire alive Leaves skittering along treacherous muck-beaded cobbles Hob knees nobbly having shoved hoofs into boots shelters in a shop front, even he shocked, who saw the Lord’s fist knock his host from holiness Boreal sword cleaves Battered windvains stirred midnight life Watching through spitspattered windowpanes above a gaslit…
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Her
Her flesh records scent Petrichor-rouged whore Step periled with hoarfrost Cold, fresh from outdoors Bouquet of flowers underarm, strewn hair awry.
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Starplay
Stars like void wasps Tossed warping wobbling in oreless voids vorpal matte contorting solar molar choler choker cholera carnal charnel temporal journal colonel hurtle hurdle hurl storms vortex hoarding hurtling boreing boles quarterdeck bestial viciousness jesuitical efficiency blistering heretically strange forms interlocking horns trining lightning lucifer intellect lucidity lucent orbless formless gormless
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Ayindreaming Death
Late night, Satan’s time Larks latent, awaiting dawnsaying Creatures cosy in lairs Tossing turning, placeless noises weeping vixen Faceless, hinted vision opened window Chair scraping like chary stray kitten across kitchen floor when no one else is in, summoning nodules along my skin. Settling down Weeded of glamours, freed havocs Hammers falling on sky as…
Alchemisland 