Tag: writing
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INterested
Liked it lots so I put a ring on it, hoop locked Monied like a soup prod Don’t watch the nuacht for a true semblance of what’s going on Gone beyond, stomping gombeens in New Rocks stolen new bought From a blue haired goth as he got off the Luas at Charlemont Constant comparison like…
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Short bursts
When I’m on the prowl don’t hedge your bets All my debtors wear tac vests to bed Never divested from them, that is until I get them and leave them dead Hit you easy like Harvey Lee targeting a conehead, one shot no scope Smoking a bone hoping to hone this hopelessness into a poem…
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Starsigns
Canis minor, selling Cain to minors Pocket money, cough up the fivers from pops and mummy Triple price if the collars popped and they look monied Dog days, getting my hands muddy Readying runways for a second phase. Orders to do it. Fogged shades disguise a pair of eyes redder than a Pharaoh’s gruaig. Sucked…
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Accent
When she spoke, it was with an implacable accent Neither French nor Irish A brute chimera festooned with the worst of both All rolled Rs and missing Hs. I’m reaching those ‘missed the boat’ sort of ages, And I wondered, in fact I hoped, that if you wouldn’t accompany me to dinner You would at…
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Seeing what should not be seen
I spy her naked, unchaste Furtive as only the bitten and chased are. A beautiful fairy lady Her hair shell-trailed is raven sable Long necked and strange Not unlike a craning bittern Always scowling like an ill tempered Master examining a confiscated diagram. In a lake bathing, silt-tailed Her wake this sylph a silver surf…
Alchemisland 