Tag: writing
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BIRD PARTS
Beak like a rapier Face which rouses even a mother’s hatred Utterly giftless, lipless and grafted skin stretched thin as over elongate mindcases in diminutive alien races Diminished by comet-pierced aeons, ages before angel or demon Before drummond and rune-banded horn summoned heavenly hosts of gallant heroes Monstrance glowed like the oriflamme, all bread leavened.
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Ancient Naval Warfare
Bound for Actium Tri and quadriremes tarry Mare Nostrum Corvus to aid boarding Bore-imploring missiles shot score-by Gore-hot decks decorate the struck Separated skin unable to suck back leaking ichor Bough-bursting ballista bolts in storage.
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Different Life
I am a pelegrin All binding things which blind to faith and glamourize earthly states I have burnt The peregrin headed south, swearing to take no left turns On peregrinations heard mouths doubting heaven, giving their all to appalling sermons They know not what serpent they serve Still receive what they deserve at the coming…
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Connectedness of the Unseen
Sitting in a green glade Denying dismay Darling buds May Grave to Aries’ April Hateful, apeful child of the Zodiac Hasty hasty feels no disgrace Counterposing sky, wide as cheshire smiles once they lie Four poster bed of the world Suddenly a sense of interrelation Objects elated by distant others Modes like phantom tones, toad-throated…
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Gelding
Behind bars in straw littered byres Death-marked calves fart nervously Head of herd marked as farmer’s Smell of nitrogen Gentling vice make bulls androgyne Grandson in handsome wrangler jeans Couldn’t wrangle a cup of tea Sent out to have a man made of him.
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