Tag: science fiction
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Novena after the nuclear exchange
Using her last breath on a fickle rosary Fasting to the last Want for God’s love surpassing Even the harshest reality We look on with enmity, disguising jealousy Red beads, readings, pleadings, to the mercy of the lady of roses Kneeling by a roadside ditch, scrying the scarred sky for divine signs If she lives…
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SOTT
With Vodalus’ clique Eating Thecla sticks Gaining memories Didn’t protect now Chewing her neck Like a dental stick Besotted by exultants In the tower, Master Ultan New Sun, the Ultimate Fealty from black brothers Masks identity smothering Claw in my hand burning Lore through repetition earning Second read, first time learning Cloak made of fuligin,…
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outatnightfoxwolf
For the taking of oaths, I select my best coat Out in the cold like an hobo Blowing hands like an Oboe Walking upright, primate homo Blade Runner night Sideways rain spraying Lanes lit with neon signs Where android odalisques languish Casement smudged with handprints Badge says hi I’m Diamond Atlantis How can I hasten…
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Last left living
I’ve got racks and bands racks and bands Livestrong bracelets outlive the land After the nukes land Whose hand shadowed the burgundy button Land sliding to inhuman climes Life cannot sustain, lung-raping acid rains It’s only cockroaches and plastic bands from Athenry to Atlanta Unmoving city full of noises, pie full of phantoms When do…
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Syphoning gas to give her a fighting chance
She persuades me to let her sage me before leaving If it could save you and I didn’t, it would grieve me Full sore, pray leeway A spraying haze unabating, she an Aaron Bathes me in miasmic armour Dispelling harm by charm She insists we wear amulets of her devisement Eyes painted onto shell mottes,…
Alchemisland 