Long Rapine Poems

Inexorable Want



How do I find
These sentences 
Written as they are
In ephemeral ink
Indelible lines
Inscribed in my being 

Spectral yearnings

It crashes me
To rocks
In unanswerable waves
Swimming tidal
To the inexorable
Yet
The implacable distance
Confounds me

Longing vent me no more
In twists and...

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merciless genocide 
     slaughter of native peoples 
     wrought with (super) wanton zeal
feeble ability to thwart 

     "discoverers" rapine wicked onslaught 
 ...

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The natives believe that the Mississippi River
carries the souls of their ancestors into the water of judgment
wherein they will either enter the Sun's fire of joy
or sit in the ice of the Moon having their...

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Struggle
 
Let me see you resist
I have tied you naked
Taut between the line of bone and soft curve
I have done this
For my eyes to devour your beauty
 
And with a rampage tearing through my soul
My...

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Love does not float above the clouds
it burns
it seethes
it desires
and with all these finger tips
these lips
their love can express
do willfully so
and a throat can howl
and a beast can yearn
and all tenderness within its claws discern
make...

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Woe to the bloody city
it is full of lies and rapine
the prey departed not
the noise of the whip and 
the noise of rattling of wheels and
prancing horses and bounding chariots
the horseman mounting and 
the flashing...

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