Tag: witch

• The milkeyed crone sucks rancid butter off a bone-jewelled finger with a four inch nail.

  Counting husbands on fingers That will be The last time you strike me She decides, smiling now as she stands to full height Her brow to his heart, yet more mighty by half this Bath wife Who through silent wiles and guile has seen him one lethal dose imbibe.

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  14th Jan 2026

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• Medea’s Mansion

  I did not take my eyes from that tray, a coin apported From thin air as the words of the ritual reported EVPs on my recorder, easy peasy for the Thane of Cawdor Cloak corner caught up in the cardoor I snap back like a stretched elastic band Rap on the casement should have seen…

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  6th Oct 2024

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• Dead 

  In borrowed clothes, robes my mother told me, swore, I would grow into wearing, my brother who died in a foreign war Foreswore his oaths, he is the oat sewn, the cornstalk grown Tall and golden only to be mowed down gallingly in once-Gaul He was fair and handsome and beloved by all, the priest…

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  6th Oct 2024

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• Witches on the strand collecting ritual rudiment

  Acrid smoke the witch’s alembic bubbling opal High prizing simulacrum, correlate with a victim On the beach before dawn in wintertime Hauling logs seaweed-spined several miles To the furthest skull-strewn span of deeded land. Visiting stars insistent, dead the hands who lit them Liminal vignette’s trippy nipple coloured sky, tides fried cerulean By insistent centrifugal…

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  13th Jul 2024

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• Perilabounding

  Why does everyone I love insist on living near forest fires No prophet but keep kids from tophet if you want them taller Why does the witch not simply dump her oven, be done with it Then cook the children in an airfryer, eaten crisp’d delightedly.

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  11th Jul 2024

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