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• Escape

  Phantom halo of slipped gallow’s rope Pink girdle around the neck Merriment and mirthful mouthings Drams of Scottish whisky  The frame’s shadow like a crooked back Unfouring his legs’ atrophied muscles Removes his gold corona, tosses it away Three fingers caress empty eye socket Circumference of aperture a cave mouth Cave where fire is born…

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  27th Oct 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets

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• Conflict

  Did not sleep well last night Great din, gungaless, from the parlor Sherston’s mother communing with spirits Young Hamo dead at Gallipoli Did Eliott’s Aeschylus know him? Severely annotated copy of Goodbye To All That Melancholies of a fox-hunting man By war, Men harden Mars the sharpen Bard birther Mary Arden in Angland since Domesday.…

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  27th Oct 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, 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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• The Liffey Thing

  From April 23 1983 Irish Independent article by Peter Cowan Archaeologists have described the largest Viking graveyard ever to be excavated in Europe outside Scandinavia as a “significant find”. Pottery, stirrups, and locks were found during preliminary trenching at Dublin’s Phoenix Tunnel. ACI were notified when workmen found high numbers of topsoil artifacts. Foreman K…

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  28th Aug 2023

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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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