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Riverbank burial
Swift end to a thankless life Rank bonestrewn midden of the Blanka-like Avanc Without anger or undue disgust, I dismembered your flank I bury you in the soft fertile mud of the riverbank That which stinks overmuch, and cannot sink, I stuff in sacks Parts of your gouged back I distribute, feeding you to the…
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She’s here again
Eye’s esteem Sight of adoration utmost You are ambitious as forward-thrusting Thutmose For whom Ra brighter glows, favourshowing Crawled from the void Or hell’s sawloud forge Whose emissions rank rising furious scented Durian She dream walker Mute beholding with corvid wile She Beatrice upbraids and uprights me Her gemmed voice, gelid as Hyperborea To life…
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Red kicks
Hooker back from Oz wearing red shoes I’m across the water like the Red Jews Teasing answers from the Pentateuch I release what’s pent up beneath my thatched roof Rafters bent where I tied my noose Red mouse where I hit you with a head kick Red wrist where I carved a glyph with my…
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Operating
My painted hands an alchemical operation’s scarlet stage Like I operated on a patient With blade separating, thy ennervating parts innervaded Innovating nerve endings into new things, fleshlyfreshly-rended Your corpse’s hemispheres tended together with silver staples Transforming your base materials into wondrous stations. Once you begin stabilising I cascade down your inner cave’s corpuscle-climbed face…
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Love songs
Love requited but unsaid Love unneeded traitorously heeded Surplus to my requirements Your face haunts my surrounds Loudening every silence Love unrequired but much desired On love’s lawed oceans, I flawed pirate Wash my hands in the cup of you, Pilate. Love unsaid, never uttered Never to usher down aisles Never to be gushed over …
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