the misty isle (feat. hadley-james hoyles)

from those we left behind by ciar nixon

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An astral raiment descends
on our squeaking, piping neighbours
scattering now, plumes asunder and
breastplates mottling green-
in envy of their comrades
in Hispania.
Blue whoops, verdigris hollers
whip at the sunlight, throttled
from below as Latin scripts are chipped out
cast down by friends, the Selkies, cormorants
who want some glory.
That falls to those pale ones splayed in the streets
giddied by the life affirming howls
which stain their lips.
Them treaties, back to gibberish.
Parades of a different sort.
In newly lichened Eboracum
mummas heave their yung’uns clear
from pappas, slick with old John Barleycorn.
The local ones, their hairy
(all hair is foul to me
No matter what you
Have of it)
forearms ripple in the sun
their distant father.
Magnentius’ scraps are halfway home
though his skull be ground
for flour to that hungry empire.
Ach well, the script is new and bold
the red god in fury cast down
replaced with a corn dolly
bark husk and stem, all loveliness.

The offal-thick Ouse shifts
a quickening pulse down its chasm
I will slide my body faster, fitter
as the island god awakes her withered veins.
As indigent, I raise a cheer, an
Eel-cheer emblem on the moors.

Old bloodlines are remembering their tongue
And Lughanasadh lurks, soon to come…

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from those we left behind, released February 29, 2024

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