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Nov 2023 · 16
Lokabur
Bruce Rimell Nov 2023
no wolf
walks here

no serpent
slides

no eight-legged
steed rides

just a soul alive
still, born of

a milkmaid
under earth

Lokabur
in me who

treads this
new earth

silently...
(note: ‘Lokabur’ is Icelandic for ‘(non-binary) child of Loki, the Norse god’)

— The End —