Tag: prose

• Conflict

  Did not sleep well last night Great din, gungaless, from the parlor Sherston’s mother communing with spirits Young Hamo dead at Gallipoli Did Eliott’s Aeschylus know him? Severely annotated copy of Goodbye To All That Melancholies of a fox-hunting man By war, Men harden Mars the sharpen Bard birther Mary Arden in Angland since Domesday.…

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  27th Oct 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets

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• Fragments from the broken wheel

  Dublionysus, Mangan’s lurid epic penned in an absinthopium haze. The poet’s correspondence highlights a mysterious redheaded bedmate who tended his fleshly pangs during the tract’s 23 day construction period but her name, like Mangan’s manuscript, is lost.  Themes of national and personal confination abound in Mangan’s work and seem to reify thematically as assignments in…

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  21st Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

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• Mapless Codex

  Howling crotals Mithraic exsanguination Extravasations of essential claret Screaming whistles  Whistling slings pregnant with brow destined stones Fragments describing lost texts  Imaginal codices  Immense tracts containing nothing Digression within digression within digression Death  As a prelude to  Birth Intestines sweating in the fire  Altar black from use 

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  21st Aug 2023

  Filí my pockets

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• It Smells Like Burning Templars In Here

  

  When I walk past it’s O face, salt bae How you feel about me: a salt bay April is Aries gearing up to Assault May. You’re salty saline  Temple at prod crumble like praline  Flood of God swerved it, salt sieve like baleen. Lighting up the sky it’s divine I’m like an invasion of aliens…

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  20th Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets

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• 7 7 7

  I’m in a grid of spheres, it’s odd, 777 added totals the tiersThe lightning fork the branches veer toward Yesod from Hod; Mortal to GodTower in the fog: laid out on cold stone the tat of old croneSplayed out her bold bones the twats I’ve old known and outgrown like kid’s bones.Charms spun on bone…

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  8th May 2023

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