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Prelude to Terra Nostra
Parnassus rises on the edge of the underworld.Sleep, the sleep has shifted. Under skin-silk nets and Artex arches,Between Beijing sheets and sweated bedding, Bound by stitches itched by infant...
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With apologies to Edward Lear, his owl and his pussycat.The lion and the unicorn went by train On the East Coast line from York. They sipped champagne on their southbound campaign,Ate canapés with a...
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tick-bitten, thistle-tonguedshe comes like hungerhung on a rib. a cradle graven,a sloe crib in covert scrub,cowering. haunch worn and winter-pinched,horn-toed and hackle-flecked,she waits, ticking.a...
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