From 'blood rhetoric', Oneiros Books 2022

 

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disfigur(ed) limbs of sun & the fall(en) ashen. try trace what held begun asked of density what children aspen coil(ed) till frozen bloody/ oceanic

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mirror lapse that ocular distinguish. colours no. long hour rot. to the fore & nothing cadaver more. eye feels the blood of which composed in depth of acrid laughter/ outpour

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last hour of no measurement call of the without scattered breath oblivion caress of none what will till breathe expels colour the lapse lack scald of once forage till drown no sediment no ghost rhythm escapade

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seizure solace seizure absence one wilt to bear of the stitch close of wound belonging birth it-reach of none what lock a cold eye dusted realm of speech reclamation spill of all sun light unto where from desire of

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one formless than another reach of what wilt till spill teeth jagged wishbone exigent despise the cold floor the majesty it triv/ ial caress of bone weight nothing rhetoric collapse density of foreign adjustment

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scarred without a pilgrimage a shadow's tooth & nail of breathless desire cold meat a nocturne a birthing weight of reclamation sudden to disavow claim lapse a bitten butchery of light

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razor blossom shoot along veined edge of papyrus extol blood absenteeism given to colourless pupil expose trace acrid shadowy expose where teeth lock shale of white till sparkle diamond crimson drench in meat curtains as if to call final lock of night where silence bind if

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empties no not of out of collapse coil closure stitch bled ashen promise of what speak we it till foreign desire of echo breakage stillness null of trace strip of skin cadaver mist of colourless ocular bruised meat flung unto hyenic jaw echoes from out of which what night

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 zero pelt design of through fragrant excise all froze what hollow dense shit in vein's collapse as ochre trace across where ancient landscape rest no worth collage of flesh till burn what haven trace of tongue across barbed wire caress(ed) bone obsolete kiss of trace/ given

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