Tag: spilled ink
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Albedo
White as twelve ivories White as the moon’s eye White as the dying White as runic lightning White as Papal garb White as paper sheaf White as a chasuble White as delight, charity, merrity, rare nobility White as albumen White as Algernon White as studs along Orion’s belt White as the skin around your welts…
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Windowledge
When I was young and hated life I brandished pain, the oldest knife Recalcitrance’s balled fists crying out in need Cold-blooded offspring of a certain serpent’s seed I recall standing on a ledge, up three floors Part performance, and this really was, seek no metaphors Like a man who is allergic to doors Out on…
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Viaducts, tearful crying ducts
Handcuffed to a lectern with a borrowed tome Working from home is home rule, that’s always rule of Rome Viaducts ferrying lead to the thirsty Open mouthed congregation Awaiting poisonous variegation Sweeping boltgun irrigation, blindness to the eagle nation A discus bet a throw I might, I take it like a catamite Catapult it away…
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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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