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Oliver Sheppard
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Substack post about The Funeral Colony
Check out my Substack here to see the first poem in my new collection, The Funeral Colony. The poem is titled "The Certain Knowledge of Final Things and The Motive Force of Fire" and it's the first of 84 poems in the collection.
My Substack is the better place to go, in fact, if you want to keep up with blog posts from me. Check out https://substack.com/@oliversheppard.
And, of course, THE FUNERAL C Read more of this blog post »
My Substack is the better place to go, in fact, if you want to keep up with blog posts from me. Check out https://substack.com/@oliversheppard.
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“To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair”
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“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?”
― Cosmopolis
― Cosmopolis
“I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds
That interwreathe among the bones of kings
With cold and poisonous berry and black flower:
Or ruminate upon the skulls of steeds
Frailer than shells and on those luminous wings -
The shoulder blades of Princes of fled power,
Which now the unrecorded sandstorms grind
Into so wraith-like a translucency
Of tissue-thin and aqueous bone
- A Reverie of Bone”
― Shapes and sounds
That interwreathe among the bones of kings
With cold and poisonous berry and black flower:
Or ruminate upon the skulls of steeds
Frailer than shells and on those luminous wings -
The shoulder blades of Princes of fled power,
Which now the unrecorded sandstorms grind
Into so wraith-like a translucency
Of tissue-thin and aqueous bone
- A Reverie of Bone”
― Shapes and sounds
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