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• Inside Wolf

  Plainsight hid, move big like the sea Commuting to work on sanity an exterior insisting Every second an inside wolf resisting Flashes: faces folding to a fisting, arms outside it’s a Christ ting Invisible like a mountain summit can be Heads dipped Christening, river run meander after a madness flung it out to sea

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  6th Nov 2023

  Filí my pockets

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• The Bullaun

  Final week in July but inside the church a chill winters the air. Father Herlihy’s sermon always runs long on Sundays. Never less than four but sometimes five hours long. He would write all night of a Saturday, crafting righteous tracts of comical dimension, designed to forestall what it was that his congregation got up…

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  29th Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

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• Short story: Somme Nambulist

  To the reader, sonic partnership for your journey through the codex: https://alchemisland.bandcamp.com/track/somme-nambulent-i 1916. The violent tapestry of a red century’s troubled childhood is invisible beneath the bloodstains. The war which was to end before Christmas drags on into its second year of breakless harvest. On the shattered continent the rutting stags of European royalty vye…

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  25th Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

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• Deep Assignments Run Through All Our Lives

  Old Troy of the DMP  Old Troy a ruin, a heap  Middens where stood temples, among motionless flagless priapic poles Ropes pulled down the stone sword of Aries Broken on the broken flags  A millennium of shards Stone flood spreading outward across the floor  Across the world a milipedinous avatar of concrete twists itself Bookbinder…

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  21st Aug 2023

  Filí my pockets, wyrd mythology

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• Fragments from the broken wheel

  Dublionysus, Mangan’s lurid epic penned in an absinthopium haze. The poet’s correspondence highlights a mysterious redheaded bedmate who tended his fleshly pangs during the tract’s 23 day construction period but her name, like Mangan’s manuscript, is lost.  Themes of national and personal confination abound in Mangan’s work and seem to reify thematically as assignments in…

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  21st Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

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