Tag: words
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Vision of Antique Province
Ptolemaic maps of Ireland, forts and shipeating cliffs Clothless bard kernes carving out vexing stone glyphs Satires they penned could legacies strip Women faming as chiefs and warriors, Corn kings denippled and drowned in pits The bog the bog that gives the fire, the bog with dead is rich Benbulben of the doors is the…
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Hobobituary
Rotten with Druids cider, ruckling out breathy rebel songs Rum ruddled rounded cheeks, angelsheet a bellthroat throng A house window teases warm light, warmer than any fire without; in there is where I belong. In fact this house is the house I bought. My son and I tossing ball, imploring him “go long” The door…
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Crafting Stars
Why specialise, obtain special eyes We need fewer yous and more like Is Isis the typist her husband the sunrise Highly prized the nicest jewel the nightsky’s Gygaxian dice toss, galaxian price loss Market drops on Neptune’s frost Ogygian guises and the feathers of Thoth. I need the heat I’m a desert sapper I’m ombrophobic,…
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Protofaith
The first religion was a solar affair Mounds and light and grain and blood and sperm What will the last religion be? Beyond contemporary scientism The unutterable fusions Return of mediaeval thought Harmonies of humor, planetary music, sequences of linked spheres Philosophy, crafts and mystical logic The new knowledge will give birth to the first…
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Obsessive Anemology
Always our nature compels us to contemplation of things corporeal Boreas and his cardinal questions, inciting movement Dance the first religion, the swaying of trees under wind Wind the first and foremost mystery Comes from where, goes where, unseen but is Wind as wrath and as deliverance. On all fours the sticky floors The palms…
Alchemisland 