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Monday, 10 February 2025

Who...

"who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish,"

[but before then, in midnight Silver Chair, were frightening unbearable unbared truth]

who, when tiredness and wine drew out the blood-liquid

from their capillaries-fingers

like tingled yellow crystals to prick and tear from inside

when hope withdrew like tired shells

of echoed songs of rejected thoughts

of chambers null and void and pointers

foxes pubs and drawl; "echo, fox" and public brawl

speckled truth; speckled, ken?

never return, heading town, meadow port and all the cherubim draw their unseen swords, where not even the oxen shall cross their fjords...

who indeed, will call me by my true name

or to whom can I read out the scroll,

my seeming complaint

till we have faces

till we can bear to look in the mirror

of shame tired pain and care

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