Richard Skelton

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objects around found souls
like lingual antlers

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feathers against proximal remains
grammars lesser sediment

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caves ventral sewn
body; signum arch artefact

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flattened thou the wings
by christs constrictor dorsal

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in water joints the
diagrams aiming quiver peat

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for lichen and isolated
also are to bone

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during chamber the resin
the contra of with

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where the body findings
six the the the

Richard Skelton writes: "The poem is part of a larger, ongoing body of work, The Cult Revived – a proposed ‘linguistic excavation of northern Britain’. The work is an attempt to syncretise material from varying disciplines, including archaeology, ecology, history, biology, geology and folklore, in order to create a new mythography of the north – a salvaging of its deep landscape history and an account of its flora, fauna and settlement by humans.

"In this instance, the text is generated from a corpus of material gathered here:
http://thecultrevived.tumblr.com/post/155621901622/the-rules-set-low-more-bones-scattered-from-the."
 
 
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