Tag: poetry
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Secondhook Books
Got a black bag fulla secondhands for the bric a brac Bound for Oxfam, slung up on back Santa’s sack Bricolage, rings from October barmbrack, Ballybrack commemorative plates, my old ‘RA balaclava Chucky air law type palaver Penguin classics, I bend down in my Asics, myopic won’t cop this but get low when you shop…
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World Ocean Day
It’s world ocean day A world of motion Really we are a swaying water planet We are but risen skeins of sunken Atlantis This borrowed land, even its sand belongs to the seas Poseidon considers land a disease It is pleasing to him that his domain is earth’s surcease Tsunamis crease into apocalyptic things easily …
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Age of the Purple Sage
Houseproud only in grim surrounds In prairie houses flux-visited, visitors disallowed, visages shrouded In shoddy barns shotgun barrels like excess wicks trimmed down with a tight-fisted vice grips Roaring howlers teem unseen in the bowerless places, ladles of xanthous sand as sugar on pancakes in dunes and mounds The powerless sun-crazed belly like snakes toward…
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Model Not Territory
Ptolemy’s model followed geocentric principles Earth as sun centre around which spheres rotate uniformly as ships in typhoons, along circles split like zodiac glyphs At the epicentre the sun housing the earth Divinely plotted prescribed orbits to fit solar alignments are called deferents These are fenced and intersected by smaller circular orbits called epicycles By…
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Cuppa
Proper tea is best left to brew Rollie on the step Drum Blue Barrys and Lyons battle to the death.
Alchemisland 