Tag: words
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Ishtar
It’s Berlin the museum Eight gates separate the great from the dust The eighth adorned with animal faces, graced with sky hues rubies and jacinths Adjacent the golden steps of great temples There is no complacent way to tend an eternal flame The frame of the world, its high lofty domes, made them fine architects…
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Sins of the Flesh
I think of my best clothes and they are on Inside my black jacket lining red as scarlet-snouted Anacreon Alacrity enhances your acceptance of invitation Your smile written citation I slink naked, clock my best clothes and they are off Upon the floor, finery’s trapdoor Stoking old loves angry spurned ghosts, host hating rewinding old…
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Disinter
Long languid air atrophied the tomb of Aten Traps, tribulations to thwart thievery Boulders which fall and what’s struck flattens Stairs giving to slides, circling to pits of spikes Vipers in corners, genetically antient, striking out Fanglike pillars flanking doorway which only one true sees Inside your vast golden sarcophagus, the patience of trees On…
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Elegy for Lower Orders
Yet elegies for lower orders orbis terrarum great appearing great when kneeling Suddenly grand rising, Easter morning the shelling ships Sackville Street sacking Strangling by redcoats, seething conscripts and worse the hating citizenry spat Constitutions grim the noble sacrificants. Votive selves, teachers poets oath takers Shot firers and by proxy letter burners, ran down ruined…
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Little Blind One Of The Grass
Feeling your way along well enough For the circling hawk like a ceiling fan At the roots of things, stoving clod, sleeves Itself into mud, swims bog and mire with ease Wading above waiting hawk wanton gold-feet Blind as lime-drowned Tommy your touch balances Supremely tactile, paw eyes and nose ears, taste of noise Swooping…
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