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Redemption Song.

the moon in twain, meted
meeting on screech beachhead;
sign in the sky, saying
assay of vault halted
stooge wandered in stern ways
astern plenty intentions
doubled moon & morbid:
more backtracking floor show

Life of the Dead.

"Our clothes were for the most part unadventurous like our conversation...'One should be quite unnoticeable,' [Lionel] Johnson explained to me." --W B Yeats, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑉𝑒𝑖𝑙

Program.

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Wichita Lineman.

"My rosary is broken
my beads have all slipped through"

—B Taupin

"Beautiful Losers was written outside, on a table set among the rocks, weeds and daisies, behind my house on Hydra, an island in the Aegean Sea. I lived there many years ago. It was a blazing hot summer. I never covered my head. What you have in your hands is more of a sunstroke than a book."

urn ragged indigo
ink-begrudged effigy

longer pig pentagram
pawned above-universe

unhoused green happiness
harg duly cerulean

sparse my veer venturesome
invites brick characters

God is Alive (lineated as poetry).

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"The Ollamh, like the king were permitted to wear seven colours..."

—Laura (Riding) Jackson via

"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it."

"cueballs invented insomnia in an attempt to forget eyelids" —Bill Knott

Flare loop arcades.

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Sixty Years On.

"Chaque jour vers l'Enfer nous descendons d'un pas,
Sans horreur, à travers des ténèbres qui puent."

—Baudelaire
('Each day t'ward hell we sink a step/ Without horror, through the shades that stink.')

Paramecium Betting.

"Song

Naomi looks for her child
in the trees, in the leaves.
It is of fire, and has spirited her away.
Though sea-level rise to heart-level,
in the trees, in the leaves."

—Saint Geraud (Bill Knott), The Naomi Poems (1968)

Gonna tell my kids these were the beatles.