Tag: words
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Three Graves
Dig a grave both deep and wide Spade-cleave the wintered bog, Inter his swaddled form inside Breathe again as fog. Dig another grave this time Less wide but equal deep; Melt Her quick with garnish of lyme, Rent the spent sun seeps. Dig one last grave, you man By the measures of your eye; A…
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Brothers
How dare he who notes your tardiness, generally truancy, aloofness, pig-headedness, strong To a fault; digression – traits mine alone to expound upon That no other man might tarnish careful-wrought reputation, writ by mine tongue and your own, From without, passing judgement on what is mine alone To judge.. Writ cross the convex mount of…
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Brother
Hook nosed with rod crooked God-favoured blood hissing God selects favourites from among his constructions Fortune’s favourites, in like flavour The bloodlines of his nearest dearest host mostly beloved beloved most. Each artful dizzying of the clockface marking countless deep time epochs Suffering the Mosaic Hebrews were plagued by a pox They wailed at walls…
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Instructions For A Wake
Venerate my demise Venerate me at my demise Whether I was a miser hard on dimes A master charmer fixed on dames A mixer and hod carrier fixing Dame Street Bury me like I was a king Abounding fires let girdle the spot Vile earth in paces measured Payments eclipse my sightless eyes boatman’s tithe…
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Indecisive Patriarchs (Yesah Noah)
Standing at the gates, a Lamassu Second rate your llama zoo Te llamo who? The ark the ark upon the waves, below the graveless dead unsaved and unsavoury Doubt is a slavery, that God didn’t make me, doubt daily rapes me The voice guiding this vessel perilous, this violent earth; the sons of Pelias Dripping,…
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