a dead pope's corpse

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"...the god known as Cynothoglys: the god without shape, the god of changes and confusion, the god of decompositions, the mortician god of both gods and men, the metamortician of all things." --Thomas Ligotti, "The Prodigy of Dreams," in: Noctuary (1994)

Skafer.

"a snail
on bended knees
not yet become a buddha
a beacon"

--@poem_exe

The influence of Old Church Slavonic on Russian.

1.
refuse intricate GIFTS
cabana for INUIT
ingest strange FUNGI

in this yard meet a TIGER
where only jet echo STIRS

2.
cry broadcast
Cynothoglys
abyss breach
soap lampshade Ides
accuse salp
ostrich it scathes

3.
laughingthrush
has null egress
wharf bitter
and agate strict
thrang groaning
but osprey whist

4.
fuligin
bulks elder wine
aggry wisp
in ebon ruck
elf ukase
tsantsa dealt plonk

5.
skafer skirl
saw afar verve
from Asgard
sketchy bird braid
ill assault
ganch swoon bankrupt

6.
the bookstore in plaguetime
a rumble before dawn

hand-tinted postcards
of places i have been

the story runs away
with the breath of its telling

grow implicate
order

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