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Murmurs from the End
The ne’er rising sun Plunging from azure-plundered skies The busy pilums of the Thunderer strike Cries like wolfrhapsody as climbing fires reach the highest cathedral spires Liars esteemed From hissing oceans clear pearls of escaping steam In fitful sleep and frightening waking dreams, visions of children screaming Crowds streaming through fissures in the palisades Schemers…
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Ships, Bay
Upon waves, salt-treaded dreadnoughts waiting Arrayed ophidian riding greyling waves, feigning agitation Pavements along which finned men in scaled raiment remove Better to buoy them, stymying straying Here comes rain and it is good timing, rhymer’s arrival pleases troopers Who would constrain minds to matters trivial more than upcoming battle Hearing gleoman speak forebearer’s great…
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Wolf
Illegible prophecy of uncanny accuracy Tarot spread for bloody centuries Death, The Tower, The Knight of the Long KnIVes Liza’s lancers fear O’Neill’s men They refuse charges, citing fear of damnation No quotient of thrashings arrest their recalcitrance O’Neill’s whiskered kernes harbour wolf knowledge In Ossory, near Boris, cynocephalic regiments train arms Attaining ungodly athanasia…
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Taleteller
Gloaming, petrol fires at sunset wearing mitres of black smoke Strong bellied fire like a broccoli head bubbling saffron and fixing to see dawn Orpheus’ melodies careen in a sleeping gun’s ear Orders from HQ seek the Line’s source Navigating three thousand miles along a wire narrower than a gypsy’s kitchen Barely audible from the…
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