Future Deleted Experiment of the Present # 12
“Oh, Tywyll Mor-Leidr; Or, A Song For Sea Thieves”
westward hair blows faded within rays hosting all who swim by morning sea, braided waves float by any boat prepared for sailor’s boasts indeed
broken shades of wooden bed displayed a league beneath
judgement from water’s weakest words
oh my mother, sweet Preseli!
alleged upon ledge atop bleakest terms
above erosion of millennia fingers bleed to delay relief
as captian’s wheel known to her but once another’s flank, in debt sunrise we climb betrayed, like pirate’s fog we walk the plank,
for you I will belay
sun red bodies exposed soft and sleek, strange sculptures, strong eyes prepares distance in mouths so meek
yet singing tears an instance of gods terse form, laws obeyed by the lies of Orion
rhine romantics know no ruin nor lines centered within sweet wine and thunder
storm’s upon the strength of shorelines astutely restrained by horizon
privateer, publicly chosen you sting
yo ho all and yar disbar no tide against we!
as goats weep eerie immersion in tandem to two step by cello
the notes lay in page found faint in false ring
while waltzing abandoned whistle intent on the kracken’s feast, my emaciated bellow!
toast thy ghosts the riotous fast so boast past roasts reversal ye
lost, royal creatures of older wars loyal like ol Bartholomew and me
rain soaked upon reign provoked to curse gods, amen!, and men who don’t curse
but not beasts who be better than both creators and that which never needs nature except ones you inspire fear among and maybe
something in between the dreams of all of thee lost in me, desperate cannons surround ships departing like devils for all salt to sea
lacking movement without the insurance found intact within instinct
differing grain, gritty and fed on giddy idiots of fleshy towns and cities lose enclave grace from encounters in caves of feral things
at Cal-Hul our fleet must flee, to the hull at Castlemartin
four thousand years of forest our fishguard departed
synapses surrounded by white squirrels situate their station of sowed reaping
for cerebral gatherings garner delicate discussions on cold weather sleeping
heaven nor hell provide us any ladder
jump off or fight on, our enemy of philosophy dispels right or wrong
lovely creatures dry even in rain always choose the latter
those who don’t, fall below, mother Preseli’s scree in splatter


“as goats weep eerie immersion in tandem to two step by cello”
I’m pretty sure that this line alone is going to haunt my dreams.
If not the goats then the image of ending up splattered on the rocks below will definitely take over.
Bravo for eliciting such a visceral reaction to your words.
“at Cal-Hul our fleet must flee, to the hull at Castlemartin
four thousand years of forest our fishguard departed”
Amid the roiling boisterous lines, these ones came at me through a clearing and I saw a whole story with them, a shanty within the shanty