Tag: water
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Rivergoer
Rag wearing paladin Head loud innerdin, agenbiteofinwit Heart racing, I’m craving red Anadin Panic attacks about my future, Anakin Bopping blister packets to access what routine’s lacking Ruined ship sailing back from Actium tattered and fractured from action Last embattled frigate flouncing frayed rigging coming up the Sambation I am cloud-minded vikings sailing up a…
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Caught in a net
I am Dictys, on deck like a casette or undived divers pearl-minded Airtanks shining, shrining their delicate survival beneath the brine Wine of the Flood, Wine of God’s Cruelty, forty nights capsizing Drowning mountains, crowning seas, fulfillment of prophetic pregnancy Solar lips kissing a trapped fish, real-time rictusing Heat such as cat’s hissing arouses from…
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Below the sharks
Dark without abounding I am with flounder lounging Dark within, founded in my foundling heart Black as a foundry chimney’s throat and windpipe. Shark sighted from below Idiot’s rendering of an angel Strange, stumped, pale, crippled Ill-equipped to ferry heavenly missives to trickster mankind. Seen from where I am In the damless places My Atlantean…
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Washing of Hands
Death what but chance taken Priest barded charblack armour Gospel ardour, holds his arms Water pure cascading ewer Holy waste unfit a sewer Circles sacrarium’s grate.
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The Settling of Ogygia
Tide’s navel stirred as Hera’s rage at Zeus’ infidelity Thirty days pacing decks scarce enduring four abreast Until palm’d nest God’s lambent dove alights, wave-breasting Halcyon Effulgent battalions engaging a cloud Actium, trining lightning cracking Like bones ensconced in the fierce wrestling holds of Kleostratos Cackling sisters of world-weighted Atlas, themselves ballasted Lashed to sails…
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