Tag: relationships
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Wolf among you
Wolf in the Nikes with a peasant-frightening psyche Bars make you jump, cars scaring pheasants off the curb My mind strewn, rune-carved pages Another planet’s Book of Matthew Gaining dishonour extolling extracanonical apocryphal gospels Rarest codices available, ancient psalters from life’s cradle Cracked like magma-strifed gryke-ridden ash plains Below hellflame spilling volcanoes Eat a pan…
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Decade
We met, this year, ten years ago My broken heart more ardent with recent censure Your Highness in Scorpio My high ass neurotic Virgo Both of us furtive Venus in Virgo Explains why we go slow, escargot We are moated Norman castles In which float dead horses tasselled That Aoife is a keeper Still waters…
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Short distances
Who can forgive Apology ungiven Silently sleighted Inwardly simmering. Both in the quiet living room Like a place of gloomy piety Miles millions between us loom Bed like a tomb, inch two. Between us, marooned In my own life, lost island Stirring thereby neither skyward pilot Nor privateer, galley rammed with rifles. Together by oath…
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Wolf of you me-eating
Your wolven eyes undress me Glaived vestments hang open Like overpacked bags stoven In tendril and in rag fastened Below gristle, animate duress Hunter’s flensing knife your breath Against me peeling away my flesh. Wolf of you me-eating Bulk of view’s points disagreeing Demolition, each others’ overseeing A metre stick’s distance between us a cheetah…
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Mrs Dempsey
Speak plain before you, no plans Here because I love my mam I’ll say it with open hands, eyes on palms I gesticulate the psalms She’s open hearted I think I am too, apple never falls farther I’m the child who came after disaster Wild but eventually mild, we have laughter Now but then it…
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