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Phthisic Poems - Poems about Phthisic


Recondite

...Defunctive smoke
From the brain
Rankles the soul:
An eternity of ignorance.

There are no marrams for skin.

Marquetry of bones
Intricacy assumes
Hoodwinking eyes
That see only nudes.

Wh...
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Categories: phthisic, allusion, dark, horror, philosophy,
Form: Imagism

Touch

...They heard a murmur in your chest,
a whisper:
tiny fish lips bulging the surface.
A bubble, a    b   u   r   s   t,
a blurp of sound
innocent as baby-lung collapses (expansions)
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Categories: phthisic, death, depression, health, life,
Form: Free verse




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