Tag: severian
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Hand of the Autarch
Flower of many petals peeled by my hand I remove books from church canons With gauntleted hands I carve glyphs drawing rifts between planets I have ridden strange axes through black places At collapsing dwarves oversaw phasing deaths of galaxies like galleys vast-masted reduced to flotsam by fantasy weapons.
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Citadel of the Autarch
Up in the northern reaches Breaches in the mountains Through which Ascian armies file Alien crafts patrol the skies, without disguise.
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MIKEOFTHENEWSUN
You’re playing demon souls I’m fulfilling demon’s goals My dwelling is derelict, a fixer upper Perhaps fitting for the Lictor Me and Dorcas are a couple A corpse is my lover Fuligin is my cover Bees around clover Ants around butter Flies around shit People around Smother.
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Second House
When you speak What you don’t know Falls like fall snow Beneath your snout You seek and sneak and eke out You are a ghost inside my house A false knowing A pallbearer when it’s snowing Lifting the palled coffin with no emotions showing His pale face, his cough-soured mouth White as a winter lotus,…
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Completing A Tragic Jigsaw
A conspiracy of banded diamonds Needles threaded, their hum or silence alike spells violence Like things divine, they communicate through subtle signs An eyebrow raised, a shoulder lowered Without a syllable they uttered murder Come not to Cumbria seeking covens It’s below your roof they’ve taken cover The fourth leaf of their clover is removed…
Alchemisland 