Tag: rites

• Rotic

  Sky red as a bromine solution Into which a toothsome alchemer, Fool’s son, diffused: Tears of Lys and Siren’s Tunes, Dragonprey barely chewed, Chaste maiden frozen mid-swoon, The sense of thrilling chase bottled. Two drops of this rancid elixir And one’s beloved becomes instantly besotted.

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  11th Jan 2026

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• Scáiltín

  Backrooms, whispered chats, gentle Irish savagery Mother Superior looming, bat-hide hued habit Thought the cat was out of the bag But that feline remains occluded Eight out of nine lives ain’t bad The boiling admix spat back He screamed as might a madman but drained the dram.

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  11th Jan 2026

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• When I die

  What is seeded accedes to another Interned unseen beneath a cedar Like a seed in cerecloth  Take me far from evil and bury me I have in the loam grim merriment Let burrowing worms enter me in the great below Making citadels of useless bone, I am a thing stown Pick a place without stone…

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  11th Jul 2024

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• Green and Beautiful

  Much spirit is mended seeing lands well tended since ancient time Lines dividing fields drawn by hands steel-strong in ages when divine agents oversaw the raising of gargantuan henges When crops failed, farmers grew vengeful Reaving pale eel gatherers from their fens, blaming them for blighted stems which greeted picking men they had sent out.…

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  15th Jun 2024

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• The King Must Have Intercourse With A Horse

  Mass to grove gods given in the deep motte, ashes impressed onto the brow and chest in blessing Twisting trees like matted hair on a woodwose breast, the sacred whore undressing The crown-conferring horse is led into a storm of golden confetti Her setting mimics that of a horse inviting, a cover of shear netting…

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  5th Jun 2024

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