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Midwinter,
is, an unsleeping, corpse bride, unwed.
Who’s tormented grief, permeates,
the ether. She’s, permanently, entombed
in, every; glistening, sorrowful, cracked,
mirror, that seems to, impress upon,
the pitch, the brick, and, the grass,
the forested branch, and, tarmac…

reflecting Her open caskets of bitter hatred.

Runaway lover,
uncaught. Jilted, by a luminary, of
the day. Which, means, no light, can, ever,
comfort Her. There, can be, no other.
Not even, His, night-time adversary.
All, that was, uplifting, became, vacuumed,
icy dunes of hope; dead, unshifting,
through, limp, wet fingers, sifting…

solar grins outshone moonlit passes made.

Hearken to, Her.
She, embodies; a silent, keening chorus.
It grips, all, it touches, far, or, near,
with, unmoving, silent decibels.
Freezing, on impact, with; clear, dulcet, spiked, nothingness. Please, my dear,
be careful, not to crush, Her, underfoot…

air rues another year of Her spinsterhood.

A, lament, seizes.
Each, day, and, night, as Her, immortal,
enemy. Making them; rigid, uptight,
uneasy. Immovable, except, of course,
for the eyes. She, has; Her reasons. He,
always, used to, compliment, Her features.
Now, She longs, for a love, that, unfreezes…

pray to propose, thaw’d, do; Neptune, Pluto.

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They’re selling,
themselves, short,
of, a; just ’cause.

Please, stop. The presses.

A paper-cut,
for, every, curved bend,
and, every, fold.

A cut-throat,
razorblade,
to, the otherside,
at, a cut-price.

Spiritual strains, and, stresses,

for, every, cut-throat,
and, every, soul, sold.

They’re shelling,
in, the news report,
on foreign wars,

screaming caresses,

open, and, shut,
wounds/words unmend,
in, a story told.

A scuttled boat,
tailor-made,
refuge denied,
death’ll suffice.

Hitherto, drowned, ashamed debtors,

for, every scuttled boat,
dinghy, or, raft, unafloat.

They’re, felling,
the amazon, for sport.
Trunks, chafed, and, sore.

The shaman’s lore, confesses;

“A bedraggled hut,
can’t comprehend,
jungle embraces, cold.”

Forest floors, remote,
now, displayed,
deluge inside,
and, out, cries.

The, unnatural, mother of all messes.

History, is, rewritten, rewrote,
on, the best, cut-price, paper notes.

They’re frozen hell’ing,
the devil’s day, in-caught,
ice, blue flames, of, ‘the law’.

Red-horned, thin blue lines, arrest us.

A Tophet trained mut,
sent, to snap at, your end.
“Do as you are told!”

A law-abiding dote,
awoken, dismayed,
cancelling minds,
laying down, lies…

…lest we forget, the protesters.

A blank cheque, puts on, its coat,
and, off, into the sunset, it rode…
…time, and, again…
…for, every, cut-throat…
…and, every, soul, sold.

Yes, a blank cheque, puts on, its coat,
and, off, into the sunset, it rode…
…time, and, again…
…for, every, cut-throat…
…and, every, soul, sold.

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After a time, of
trial, underwater, I,
have been, made a trial,
of, for, my green naïveté.
By, blue judges, sojourning,
atop; seabeds, oceanbeds, and,
riverbeds, all, whom, convey. That,
it takes,
only, seconds,
to be; jettisoned,
or, cast, or, swept; away.
Even, less, of a while, to dive in,
or, to get wet, and, be carried, upon,
hooligan-ed waves,
without, a single, sorry,
soaken, word to say. But, it,
takes, an untidal age, of eclipsed,
moonlit eons, for a river-, or, ocean-
mouth, to speak. In shock. When, their,
jolting undercurrents, are yet, to ever, state;
change.

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Once upon a notion,
I warred,
against, an Ocean,
of uncried tears.

They coalesced,
on the battlefield,
of my Soul,
rigid, reticulated,
frozen.

I gunned down,
the last of the emotion,
with, shattered shells,
of me, broken,
cannons fired,
on fears,
at my behest,
a forked feeling,
on every axed pole,
insides, ended,
by implosion.

The waves, of,
my innermost,
sanctum,
are consumed,
like Whales,
swallowing Plankton.

I’m left, just,
about,
alright,
alive,
trapped,
between,
the deep,
blue teeth.

All remedies,
are, corked,
and, I sank them,
the puddled spite,
serves as,
memorandum.

The unsurfaced truth,
is, what, lies beneath.

I am an inky blot,
a hydro-error,
an oxy-thief.

A misshapen,
lost sole, a forgotten footprint,
on the Seas.

Ego Oceanum sum.
Ego naufragus sum.
In aeternum;
erratum.

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That, unitchable, scratch.
This, abominable, sense, of yearning.

The setting, of Ignatius, upon, a thatch.
Yet, even, cataclysmic floods,
didn’t douse, the unrelented burning,
for, odious and loathsome, goods.

That, monkey, clasping onto, a back.
This, sour crabapple, bitten, for the gurning.

Fruit flies, swarm around, use-by-dates-past.
Tasting riper, than, Stygian buds.
Maggots embed, in scandalous skins, squirming.
As, oily shame, seperates, from curdled bloods.

That, fear, of firstly, coming down, for the last.
This, offer of being sated, that is drier, for the spurning.

Saturation, is, just, about, the only thing, that is, lacked.
An idea, stuck, sinking, in the clinging muds.
The verdict’s in. Been caught. And, there is, no, adjourning.
Weighed down, at the gavel, by, unsentenced, “should”s.

That, one wish, that, fell-off, the starry mast.
This, uniform of stripes, worn for, elliptical, turning…

The unhatched egg, that is craving, to be. Cracked.
Despite, the inevitable ending. Thuds.
The yolk’s eyes, are; yielded, yellow and blurring,
a yoke, unwing-ed, foul, hungers to fly, high, from, unturning hubs.

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“Does it make the contrived medicine,
any easier on the gander or the swallow,
when it’s from a ‘scaped Nanny goat’s,
ground skin, flesh, bones and marrow?
The bitter bleating maa’ing pills will turn you into the very same tomorrow.
While the birds will peck, honk, hiss and
cheap-en it from the heron to the sparrow.”

“Are comets simply shots fired by luminaries during interplanetary warfare from galactic bows and arrows?”

“Does the rain wet the appetite of Godly stars that wait patiently in the shadows?”

“A scope turned hanging rope is the Milky Way fallen from a spacious wheelbarrow.”

“The horizon’s panoramic vista to a universal puppeteer is still awfully narrow.”

When you set out to deeply ponder,
on the ever-expanding nature of all things,
you become an avid first responder,
to the ubiquitous pulling of the strings,
the camouflaged veneer of over yonder,
and the unsurprising pain as it stings,
the moulting and shed skins of anacondas,
the outstretched spreading of eagled wings,
you care not for worldly riches squandered,
instead you enrich your soul in everything,
you say a prayer fervent, full and sombre,
for those living on ever-thinning strings,
the trapeze actors you’ll love ever-fonder,
for the beauty in the hanging-on of their cling,
and the daily tightrope they dare to wander,
in order to trample, to revolt, to be uprising,
to be a Rapparee of the highest honour,
against deluded grandeurs of any king.

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If time were human
would it want to hold on
for eternity?
Would it grasp for
the stars knowing of
their inevitable fate?
With vast sums of hours
for hands grabbing into
tenebrous obscurity.
A comet’s tail slipping
through it’s minuted fingers
while running late.

If space were human would
it feel self-conscious about
forever growing in size?
Would it count asteroids
instead of calories
to reduce it’s weight?
Other universes and planetary nebulae pointing and whispering about
it’s belly being bigger than it’s eyes.
Trying not to show off
it’s favourite cascading multicoloured
galaxies in order to placate.

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Stuck in an orbiting, far-away rut
somewhere along the Milky Way
synapses resembling stardust
each trajectory a threaded fray.

An umbilical cord unravelled, cut
and used to climb down into space
downtrodden by an intergalactic foot
satellites pulling at the cosmos’ lace.

The book of time will no longer shut
and there’s no finish line to the race
trapped in an orbit without any luck
fortune has roundly forsaken the brave.

Celestial hands on quills are taken, took,
and handwritten upon Andromeda’s grave…

The epitaph reads,

“Your shining pluck
of courage swirled around us, and, saved
many a sinner’s soul from being stuck,
betwixt vast nothingness and spacial slave,
but, was lost on matterless knaves who don’t give a fuck.
Creatively you birthed new worldly waves,
white horses’ prisms surfed as we shook,
stars walked the plank, plinth and staves,
the midnight skies couldn’t creep or snuck,
from your twilight masterpieces, engraved.”

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To think
there came a time
when the locks
were changed
on a door
I could no longer
open
to a home
with the coldest
of shoulders
it’s back turned
we were now
estranged.

One blink
no clue, no secret sign
the musical chairs
unchanged
I’m out of key
out of ideas
and tokens
ill-fit for shouldering
winds blowing
colder
twig silhouettes cast
on a tent, so, strange.

A rink
of icy breath, resigned
my skating notions
unexplained
a sense of self;
fractured, jawlocked,
broken
a phantom door handle
without the holder
can ghosts
over the threshold
be obtained?

Succinct
erasure’s bereft timeline
memories besmirched
and stained
wipe away
bleach
coloured tears
soaking
“Let’s just forget it”
is what I told her
but, there’s a room
in my head
where it stays…

… Always.

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Superficial,
living the breadth,
of, newcomer’s struggles,
your future’s, fickle,
skinning, the depth,
of, summer puddles.

Aella, your whirlwind, wraps your hair,
each lock, encircles, to make a noose,
your gallows, stand high, above, your flare,
we swing, like, pendulums, excused.

If, it’s eminence, you seek,
beware, of, rosy, passing cheeks,
their emptiness, will, fill, you whole,
like, birdsong, without a beak.

Peripheral,
the outliers, omit the truth,
they’d rather, speak, of stats,
robes, of kingly purple,
a smacked mouth, so uncouth,
bites a tongue, until, it snaps.

Aella’s lipstick, on her ex, marks his gob,
the treasure, planted, she leaves her foal,
neigh-saying tears, themselves, do, sob,
as, her spirit, moves onto another soul.

When, it’s tragedy, you find,
don’t blame fate, for, a lode unkind,
your hibernation, outlasts, what you bear,
and, honeycomb promises, sting and bind.

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And, Dale, like, the road, we knew, so well,
you tried, to drag me, down to Hell,
with, your nose, so wet, unwell.
A white cat’s collar, rings it’s bell.

I climbed, the banks, of, the Glen,
without a thought, a hope, or, ken,
up, the paper-sharp, clinging, edges,
without, a purpose, a plan, or, pen.

And, Dale, you could, always, tell your lies,
without a mouth, you, still, have eyes.
They seldom blinked, at other’s cries,
they never saw, your glassed demise.

I ran, with every notion, of escape,
knees and elbows, grazed and scraped.
The lined and needled hedges,
scored me, for my sake.

And, Dale, you think you know so much,
but, you have, only, read, one book.
The book, that answered, your bad luck.
The questions mount, and, you’re mistook.

Do hypocrites, make sense, of words?
Can, a shark, out-fly, a bird?
Can, the past, out-swim, the dredges?
The answer you hate, is, all, I heard.

And, Dale, can, you turn, water, into wine?
Create, signs and wonders, all, of the time?
Live, in, the House of God, sublime?
Or, are you, just, really, past your prime?

The bed, you made, is, crawling, with, your lies.
You, always, said, you’d rise, we’ll see, how high.
When, your final sleep, comes, to soften, all, of your edges.
And, the larvae, have, sniffed you, into flies.

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