Tag: virgin mary
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Novena after the nuclear exchange
Using her last breath on a fickle rosary Fasting to the last Want for God’s love surpassing Even the harshest reality We look on with enmity, disguising jealousy Red beads, readings, pleadings, to the mercy of the lady of roses Kneeling by a roadside ditch, scrying the scarred sky for divine signs If she lives…
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Before I shower
Before I shower, lather myself up Slather bubbles upon flesh marbled, a model a marvel Before I shower you with praise, flatter you red-faced I went in for lemon soap in Sweny’s but they’d only lime And it cost most of a pound that’s the crime of robbery be daylight, be delighted if I’d that…
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Periphery Blue
Border blue Quiet surface I peer right through Fathoms deep, fathomless depths Bathing weights for sounding What you feel you swaddle like a foundling What I feel you smother like a changeling The kittens of my wants drowned in the blue burlap you made from Mary’s cloak. I see storms in you, shooing away storks.…
Alchemisland 