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LUKE MCMULLAN
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Buffalo, New York
Ruin
by Luke McMullan
Copyright 2017
First Edition
ISBN: 978-1-60964-285-3
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017934575
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Acknowledgements
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Table of Contents
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Of the composition of ground
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Antechamber
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Wrtlic (line 1)
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Wondrous this wallstone
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Wealstan (line 1)
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gladdened and gold-glimmering, gleamingly fettered,
were solemn and wine-blushed. Their war deckings
shone.
And they looked on sapphires, on silver, on soil-wrought
gems,
on fortune, on riches, the rarest stones,
on this whole bright burgh, its broad domain,
when the stone houses stood, gushing hot streams,
welling wide. The wall all engirdled
in its bright bosom, there where the baths were,
heating the spirit. That was havenly.
They they let flow
over the hard stone the hot streams.
and
until the hot ring-pool
there where the baths were,
then is
that is a kingly thing
how it burgh
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You dont want to raise an Icenian
Ventas Brettisc ghost,
Hell latin-runes tellan in his horror-coat
standing
IAM REDIT ROMA
his lifted palm his VERBUM is.
(Jones, Anathemata, Faber (1952), p. 112).
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Stone
buffers overflow
a memory adjacent myth
we refuse to know
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Wyrde (line 1)
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the lesser faceted rock
greater or lesser
a long time withstood
storms and the weather
surging with moss and cochineal
in dynasties
tenacious tectonics
the sun shines upon
or an updraft as old
as the clay crusts
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