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"I don’t think I got the riddle the first time I read it."

"Thalidomide

O half moon—

Half-brain, luminosity—
Negro, masked like a white,

Your dark
Amputations crawl and appal—

Spidery, unsafe.
What glove

What leatheriness
Has protected

Me from that shadow—
The indelible buds,

Knuckles at shoulder-blades, the
Faces that

Shove into being, dragging
The lopped

Blood-caul of absences.
All night I carpenter

A space for the thing I am given,
A love

Of two wet eyes and a screech.
White spit

Of indifference!
The dark fruits revolve and fall.

The glass cracks across,
The image

Flees and aborts like dropped mercury."

--Sylvia Plath

Chisbury Chapel, magical, within a hillfort.

"LORD OF THE RINGS (Palindrome)

Eyes,
till it’s won,
kill orcs.

A nine-men order,
baser Gollum.

I mull ogre,
sabre, drone —
men in a scroll.

I know, still, its eye."

--@Anthony_Etherin

"Meanwhile over on Instagram, ‘megalith’ has become a banned word."