Tag: poetry
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Raised Good
I’m a Prince contending with life on an open road, used to glimmering places I have relations in Limerick, mostly Norman, Father and Uncles are Knights of Glin Vast bay windows signal light in, filtered through satin curtains it has the tallow, marshmallow hue of candlelight It makes the favoured brass candelabra to shine like…
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I Swear I’m Gonna Go This Time
Barely any bread loss but my source is inexhaustible Constables exhausted at my constant posturing, my muffler-free gas guzzler like an unmuzzled attack dog produces raincloud exhaust plumes Fumes poke holes in the ozone layer Tear open a pack of blue John Player tear away goldfoil layer and frisk my too-tight trousers for a lighter…
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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…
Alchemisland 