Tag: spilled ink
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Ample
A looming light-spewing moon Like one of Molly Malone’s freckled boobs Loosed from tube, displayed, on view, By means of a carriage’s movement
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BAKELITE STAYALIVE
Rivers the colour of energy drink Self-replenishing disease delivery systems All manner of enervating agues Aches, ailments, mayhem-causing lurgies In menacing ringfenced factories Hooded peons ply blighting mancies They triumph in plastic fantasy In the uncanny valley duality of facsimile Learning the ritual value Of witch-valued simulacrum Overhead a drubbed sky draped In vague, hinted…
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Havoc with my sinuses
Cold that pains the cheeks My creaking knees croak easterly breeze Dreams tease Feigning ease of achievement Here, in flame-embattled forest Pyres ate the petalled, chagrinning florists This horrid world curdles the florid Words my quill hurls hopefully We followed that trail of ruination We did not stay long, or ruminate Upon the insensate devastation …
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Flare Up
Like marked chapters In a secondhand book’s cooked brown pages The villages ruined, hamlets razed Places they came Their wagon train came this way The speaker dehorsed steadies his bay Reeling at scented decay Where bodies were hauled to be limed Mud marked with stark Nazca lines Like the triumphal parade of a cast snake…
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Longlegs
The sea’s heaving breast The spread compass shadow Passing beneath the statue’s legs Belief is beggared The Colossus shocks with breadth Rocks heavy with wrecks beg caress The foot-swept deck wet Sleek and hope-pregnant yet The swan sweep of that vessel, going west All the whizzbang barracuda-toothed cogs Marking this machinous, rustbleak century Like dog-eared…
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