Tag: shorts

• Chimere A Minute

  My urge is like something from the stuck-fast back pages of Rochester Bestiary: Dolphin man with rabbit scut, an elephant upon cart wheels, a fish that is hairy A destrier with human hands makes a poor equestrian sportsman Easy to be the best archer when the target is large William Burroughs’ books born moment of…

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  6th Apr 2024

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• SEA

  Sea full of sharks and sailor’s shits. Our passage raise foam like fits. Twin arches shell clad an ocean M, The water in its stocks. Salt and stingray’s serrated estocs.

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  16th Jan 2024

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• Fly

  Fly, are you even among your number heralded  As one vigorous, swift, imperative.  How dash thee to and fro just shy of my whip  Educated wrist, slick; and yet you slip 

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  7th Jan 2024

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• Prehistoric Brutality

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  18th Nov 2023

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• The Bullaun

  Final week in July but inside the church a chill winters the air. Father Herlihy’s sermon always runs long on Sundays. Never less than four but sometimes five hours long. He would write all night of a Saturday, crafting righteous tracts of comical dimension, designed to forestall what it was that his congregation got up…

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  29th Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

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