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The
Blood Rules—
Prelude
1:
Dragging through city or sea
2:
Who knows
3:
But such inspiration
Pain
1:
I am the terrified ache
2:
You are a phantom
3:
Smell of pig-swill petrol swedes
4:
St Olave’s crypt cold low and bare
5:
I alchemist on a fir-covered isle
Light
1:
The stream runs scummy beneath the mill-walls
2:
You the bird I the blood
3:
I have a door open onto the hot forest
4:
These half-lights may soon be over
Fear
1:
Butterflies feed
2:
The boxer crouches like a man paying a taxi
3:
If it moves kill it
4:
A blind alley not three shoulders wide
5:
A bird’s fossil in the dense sea-groyne
Coda
1:
See that you remember my pain
2:
On the cliff-top in a volcanic moon
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