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The Daughter of Night
Ptolemy’s Aeonic rotations the starts in daemonic torment forecast unmirror the nemesis slipping its orbit who moves in menace unspinning to blot all fate.
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A Few Rhymes Out of Milton
What is holy renders only what light leaves to fate. Surrender Sun to dark stream the vulgar claim the Star of Satan. But euphrasy —lunar phrasing— flares wandering fires the unruly Sun’s alluring bronze swallows whole, swollen earth-drawn fleck this dark technology of magic spells.
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Sixteenth Amanita Ode Kabiroi
“To the fuller discussion of the Kabiric and Dactylic cults which I now believe to underlie much of Orphic mysticism, I hope to return on some future occasion.” Jane Ellen Harrison, Proglegomona to the Study of Greek Religion Are you the earthly feet of the godhead? Are you the gloomy forms emerging from the friction […]
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National Poetry Month Posts
Hello again! This is a heads-up to keep an eye on our Instagram, twitter, and other social feeds: we’re celebrating National Poetry Month with daily views of our own publications as well as some guest spots from contributors and poets we’ve published over the last 15 years. Thanks again for your support.
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Sleeper
remember the fall: Nineteen eighty-two before the morning routine slumped over slipped into frozen noise the horror show gray bags and grimace bad posture breaking ribs in slow motion the small slip of words: the trouble set back down still/just sleeping anecdote behind glass eyes manufactured laughter too late slender smile while looking on