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[GreaterMandalaofUselessness]

Hi Blythe, a spooky start to the week. This one had me googling and reading ghost stories. I like the extra windows as the devil's "binocular into it's purchase" and the warning at the close (which also makes me think of the Ogilvies, who did want to be hidden, though not for as long as they were, and the 'room of skulls').


Matt

[Jee Leong]

Hi Blythe! Intriguing piece. The movement from the inward-looking windows to the devil's binos to the extra glass is terrific. When we look within ourselves, what demons will we find? Enjoyed!

[Blythe]

Thanks you-all...I am glad to be seven-in-sevening with you.

[Blythe]

Still-bind the crooked
living in thief time,
slow the wicked to sip from your hand,
extort their compliance.

Take a turtle dove, steal its life
let the afflicted drink its blood
Whatever the syndrome, leave its scars
as a track to new health

Boil a white lily in cream
to make the most white soup
place the poultice on the turtle-dove’s severed neck
let him drink
A cure for good wounds

Include the bones of a calf
the sorrowful, small baby bones;
the eardrum, the hip, the hocks, the bones of the soft organs;
in your library of burnable things.
The acrid powder they leave behind
will mewl and cry you to sleep.

Gather all of these good things
For how else will you live the righteous life?

A song I often sing goes,
as long as the apple of the eye is sound
sound ye as teeth on the whole apple skin
an orb is round, whether eye or fruit
bitter or sweet, bite down to truth

Here are words you don’t know:
capuchin, cammock, hog’s lard, your name,
the sound you cry out every morning

[Jee Leong]

Enchanting spell. The last stanza is absolutely charming, and affecting.

[Donner]

Hi, Blythe,

I think one of the creepiest stories I read in junior high was Poe's The Cask of Amontillado. (OK, The Pit and the Pendulum and The Tell Tale Heart also gave me a few nightmares, thank you very much, Edgar.) "Glamis" does it's mention justice, especially the inward-looking windows and the demon's binoculars.

"Magic Words" is haunting and musical at the same time. Quite the spell.

Donner

[5th column]

Hello Blythe,

what I enjoy about the last two is their urgency. Both the language and structure move the poems on at pace.

[Maggie Lawson]

Hi Blythe,

Great start to Sevens with your spooky Glamis. Your language carries the theme so well.
Your second woos me with its creativity and how it speaks between the words. I'm excited to see what you brew up next!

Regards Maggie

[Blythe]

Hi friends, thank you for reading. I've mucked up this sevens, taking on too many commitments. Looking forward to Januray.