abstruse poetry

Afternoon Days

A sallow sensibility

Soft afternoon days

Sun-short

Diffuse and d?tente

Rumbled contracts -

with myself

A weary imperative

Ash in the pan

And the snooze sentiment

Distraction -

creeps round the sundial

Ash in the pan

Ash in the pan

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Diogenes

Setting place from place

Splintering out from love

Our sharded stupidity

This government of fluids

states a noetic naught

for the freedom of the barrel

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Shatter

A grief for plenitude escaping

A tremble for the turn of an hour

Knowing on the known's indifference

The vessels fill

and shatter

Love uses

and expires

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Obedience

To tamp syzygy

With clays drawn

In bankfull absence

For the silent command

Of the unappealed to -

Sunderer:

That still I accuse

O Eros of ignorance

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Destination

Taut

To the waters that restore eunuchs

My loving is like crushed biscuits

Sapid and unrevoked

It makes its junction

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Integrity

I am we asked

For shelving

A billion carapaces

In jet-cut anonyms

To recourse a judgement

And maintain the soul

Mask of its dreaming

A vinegared cloud

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Shore

O starfire

Lightfooted turn

On turn

The mote with-ought

Tumbled in

Shoreline crashing

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Participles

Responses

Unjustly predicated

How and how

These cruelties named with participles

Came indifferently

But left with pain

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Saxons

His own earth

My forebears menace

All borne by sea

They came

Hateful

Mercenary

Thieves of a kingdom

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Witness

A billion petty turns of carnality

Call into question the name 'joy'

The boundless power of falsehood

Enables repetitiousness

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Ancestral

Graces

Prisms of stonework

Refracting rights

Fulcrums gendered

In chattering void spaces

Cisioned by the inkflow

The choices in the pleating

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Snowscape

Decays rumble

The saw's thoughtless labour

The porous vacant spaces cleared

In each snowflake's burden

Of self assembly

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Void

Twists

In rushing

In sheeting

Collapsing stillness

Uncuttable

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For George Street

In the girth of emptied colour

The brittle petrified iguana

Exhibited with finality

Before the gloss

Of added value

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Know

Lives are tracings

Intuited darkly

On a field of pitch