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  January 2024     3 months ago

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Feverish Tongues

I swear I saw the lights flickering
Somewhere I hear the ravens bickering
“Who’s going to tell him?”

My blood is warm my heart is quickening
The short strawed raven now is beckoning
Through, into the curtains

The wind won’t blow the trees...

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Esau

Hunger now has bought your births blessing
So I’m covered in my mother’s goat skins
What would you trade to have killed me then
Could I say that I’m undeserving

Esau, Esau it’s not fair
I fled and found a golden stair
A headstone not of...

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The Faun Has Bled

The liquid in the pitcher’s gone black
The goblet on the table’s been cracked
Wash up darling I’m here to stay
For a perfect feast on a tarnished plate

The Dawn can tread without me
The faun has bled without me

The stars keep staring at me...

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I Want to Write

I want to write

I want to write

I don’t know what poetry is

I heard a recording of something I’d written today and I didn’t like it

I’m starting to think that to think about writing is to fail at writing

I thought about that line a...

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I Have Stolen You From the World

I have stolen you from the world.

Lots of people like to say “they’re the one for me” and that’s true for me too, you are the one for me, but what’s beautiful about you is you could be the one for anyone.

But now I have stolen you from them.
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