#alchemisland

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Leaving society for love

Take me to manless leys whose lengths no other paced

No other sandal’s tattoo grace’d

Make my love as an explorer’s ship’s prow, proud and seeing out

Drinking unknown waves in ages ignorant to longitude.

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No matter where I sail, boreas withershins me

Arriving to rare Ophir

Where rivers of clear, unsettling orpiment roar forth

Jewelfruited trees abound

Gold in great store adorns lonely, footless shores

No one is sure where.

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Some say mind pens those lands, no antecedent without

Others sure Solomon visited, thin veil liminal world conveyed

Diamond mines abutting

Fluttering thereby lepidoptera immensly size’d; speckled pied anpiels

On busy boughs, bursting in a beholder’s spying orbs

Birds in glory more storied with towering plumes

Than the couple-coloured denizens of Mount Abora, which opium lures closer

Nothing rattles me, I pin to doublet my king’s brooch.

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When I die

What is seeded accedes to another

Interned unseen beneath a cedar

Like a seed in cerecloth 

Take me far from evil and bury me

I have in the loam grim merriment

Let burrowing worms enter me in the great below

Making citadels of useless bone, I am a thing stown

Pick a place without stone and dig there a hole of fate

In soil caul me, let numberless dirt be my mortuary drape

Cover me over whole and plant cowslip

Leave me to be leached to heighten reaches

Let me bring richness as I could never in life

Let none be witness to my demise, give no rites

No solemnity or sighs, only coins upon my eyes

Seeing me safely to the Styx’s lifeless side

Let none sight my scything, my reel’s unwinding

Remember me vital and smiling, a viking

In temper, not as a member of the dead in the place of rats

Emperor only of some sand-hid ziggurat, in a corpseful manse

Remember me as a man with plans, and not a phantom

Remember not the damage, the napalm of me

But my charms, and how well I managed

All things considered

All that from me lifted, I am delivered.

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When I die, I hope not soon

Many dreams yet enwombed

I would stay my sojourn in my tomb

To confine myself to another room

It is not gloom or maudlin lunacy

Sooth I know not why I think death often.

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Tidal rivergiver

Is all the paper readied for the flood that’s coming Promising to engulf all Dublin, last Pale railing remnant rubbled Dogs can smell trouble as they can tumours and coming thunder Storms, storms coming, fierce tempests hereto are summoned By clans of black wizards under an angel’s auspices, all pitiless Pisces Seeing into minds.

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What was

I keep squeaky clean  Try taking it easy  But I’m easily wound up Like analogue toys beneath Christmas trees in 1953 Find myself seated seething  Inside on another fine evening   Sky: fire, highest, heathen, amethysts leaking In the painterly gloom of a creaking hull I bring to account the full dullness Of my weak-bulb life Robes of itchy penitence, I slip into them easily I become…

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BOGPRAYER

Glint princely light Windswept cliffs and peaks of Mount Olympus Where Gods live thriving on chance games and olives World less solid when young, fact and fiction indifferent then Henges Kings interned beneath fen Treasure-fed bogs Illuminated vellum.

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Affordability based deposits

Making affordability based deposits What I can afford I stick in the pot Money like a boiling lobster Is anyone else feeling hot But running cold  All the discretion of a gold-garbed sultan sulking in a solar Bedmate taller than an exultant Lips and hips fulsome, dress fuligin Light hits the drip, effulgent Check raise and fudge it Three quarters of the budget one hand’s subsidy Soon…

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Secret-revealing storm

Unflagging, unflappable, clinker-dragging wind In battering ram flurries self-expending. Expedient rending, thatches tore, slates fell, Holes developed in well-worn awnings, despite myriad warnings. Defrocking, menhir-knocking tempest. Restless tents sway in windwhip like widdershins ships parading, Walls expanding wing-akin, lifted skin reveals naked sin. Rigid stays torn away. At gale’s…

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Crackedjarheart

Fry day  Start the day with a slapdash fry up breakfast Crack eggs first Shells spiderwebbing against bowl rim  Giving with little resistance, spilling out  Into the oily pan slick it slides formless  Sizzling, gaining colour as it warms  Toast, rounds of toast That the rack can go around twice and still boast slices  Butter behind a silver dish Slippy and spread-ready  Running to the…

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Haul

At hall’s halfway, before our Chieftain’s oaken throne Dragonden’s measure of stown booty has been thrown Stowed in longboat holds over longer oceans, treasures by all owned Underlings shared jewels amongst scarred troopers With tattooed arms, striated with harm’s leys At pelted breasts hung pendants devoting wearers to the Thunderer.

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Rainy encampment

Outside rain fell aloofly Slick mires admired warriors wading therethrough Suckholes underfoot, many a footless boot Stewed there where it lay until noonnext When suddenly the weather turned Soot black rainpregnants purged by pearlescent sheepclouds A version of Summer in averse lateyear urgented In throbbing hues, rendering the sky like a book to Christ Single characters laboured over a…

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Cannot

This cannot be life; this painful strife; the slow denial Of everything Crumbling statues become glib surrealist limbforms Born-bolds torn down like fence posts mid-storm.

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ONNIT DOT

Lip is chewed up On it since Tuesday Listening to Tsjuder Playing Malignant Coronation Night time curious incident Dog done iN with a pitchfork I’m arguing more than Randy Pitchford Movie looks shit even in 4K Regretting forking out for reshoots RT score of 6, devil’s percentages Variable sentence length Test my wingspan’s length, lend you a stanky leg.

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Japaniac

His eyes the sun’s second home Grotto of purity Dying then when they recline Sighing at that surety Describing vast diurnal landscapes to a child lifelong blind Light climbing an ancestral idol’s ivory musculature Abundance unto a supernature, nations of sycamores Lakes of straightbacked evergreen, needy cedars Like coddled toddlers leaving apples for teacher Eager to reach light’s…

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Cocainiac 

From my powder pile I form some lines From the crowd a line forms, stretching miles Jostling not nice but not yet violent, wide eyes Like all the owls had come inside Skin white as Athena’s thigh, house of ivory Coming inside a pair at a time Can’t be repaired so let them die Dyed hair how you get the time Living rough and living wild Pay the lot with crumpled fives I don’t do lends, I…

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Wrist control in control

In grips, those in my midst gripped  All I say grist for mills, gurn from pills Late last night we climbed the hill No one tumbled backward, Jack and Jill At the top, branches lopped, oil topped Pile, lit the fire roars to a beacon pyre Lines get chopped on game boxes Noses get done in like in boxing Eyeless doesn’t matter when you’re Midas Smiling, knowing everything is golden  Bring…