chaffing millet from bone
gutters with ox mallets and pike
separating skull from hank
the talisman, they say
of an early March slaughter
bridles of hair sheared white
dunning axe and razor cut
fratricide culls the bone
from chaff and marrow
life takes root in mud
not wine or dry biscuits
millet and bone separated
from host and shoulder
the Talisman of a rising
or an early spring slaughter
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- Stephen Rowntree
- "Poetry is the short-circuiting of meaning between words, the impetuous regeneration of primordial myth". Bruno Schulz
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6 comments:
Marvellous, Stephen.
Gary
Thanks ever-so much, Gary...I like the imagery myself, with March being the month of birth and slaughter.
Stephen
"life takes root in mud
not wine or dry biscuits."
Jesus, is that line ever brilliant.
Gary
Sorry, I meant you Stephen.
Gary
But keep writing like that and people will believe you are a divinity.
Gary
heavens to biscuits, it is good.
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