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The Love poem of Experience
My love bird – a carrion crow / (unwished) / Who’s beak reeks of narcissus
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Sep 26, 2015
Mountains round her neck
She wore mountains round her neck / (“No, lower.”) / Peaked with scented minarets
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Sep 26, 2015
Oysters & Smoke in the Black Garden of Night
Let me breathe the smoke between your thighs, / The way a drowning man breathes water - / my Queen of Oysters.
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Sep 26, 2015
Junkyard of Stolen Moments
The winter here is proper, / not like the weak attempts / of childhood.
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Jun 29, 2015
The Place Where Death Goes To Die
I sank a lie in the harbour, / watched it sink like a stone. / Your beauty an apostle
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May 3, 2014
Early Mornings
Early mornings / With us wrapped / In the wings of our sweat
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Mar 5, 2014
Dance Me Lover
Dance me to the end / with your beauty / in each hand
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Mar 2, 2014
I found myself
Through the nights / of alchemy / and the religion
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Mar 2, 2014
Weekly Happenings
Great Shamrock specials / walk around town with a sandwich board ringing a bell- / if music be the food of love -
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Feb 20, 2014
Deep Ancient Night
The suicidal optimist with his noisesome breath / watches the moon for shooting stars. / He talks a lot about it;
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Dec 30, 2013
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