Tag: underworld
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She’s here again
Eye’s esteem Sight of adoration utmost You are ambitious as forward-thrusting Thutmose For whom Ra brighter glows, favourshowing Crawled from the void Or hell’s sawloud forge Whose emissions rank rising furious scented Durian She dream walker Mute beholding with corvid wile She Beatrice upbraids and uprights me Her gemmed voice, gelid as Hyperborea To life…
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Dark woods, Dante vanquished
Last night having supped With a modest cup proposed to compose My plans were soon scuppered by an interloper’s arrival Wind which kind ructions Blusterful cheeks bearded Boreas all mustered A casement closed at the latch explodes open Fumbling ecstasy, mumbling vexation chasing pages across the room Pages full of heretofore unseen quotations Solicitations to…
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Bygones
What whilst walking to craw affixes is considered little at lapping Styx Skeleton fixtures, smoke and acrid admixtures furling from fissures You will not think about when, in third class, you were spurned by Richard Nor will you regret having left a house’s – now another’s – ailing fixtures unsutured You will not cry at…
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Drink my Nightmares
Love the nightmares I strangle to submission Dip out promising won’t be long, back breathless and bloodstained after the intermission Flyblown meats I dangle in the dormers of my mission house wrinkle snouts Tastedlemon mouths like Olive Oil’s arms when peril or harm rears, bouts Of amnesia punctuated by dreams of missing teeth and feet…
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Descriptions of Places Espied on Infernal Journeys in Hell
Vilest prince vomits upon the eyeless Orichalks upon the eyelids of Thomas Aquinas His stench arises as smoke from pyres, burning tyres Gyring liar spirits Tiring lyre songs, the pile that is sleeping Cerberus The shade that is oldwise Tiresias, black as the sails of Theseus Pain wheels greased with blood, on which the living…
Alchemisland 