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Author, Arcanologist, Man-About-Town
MANDRAKE PAN
Oct 22, 20231 min read
Our Yellow-Rattled Meadow
Sunlight
Dapples our yellow-rattled meadow
With my friend and fellow
Eric Winsome by my side.
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MANDRAKE PAN
Oct 21, 20231 min read
Albert DuNeef’s Sad Lament ‘The Hunt Denied’
There was only stale bread for my supper The black, black mould that had crept upon the crust As rotten as my black, black my heart. For...
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MANDRAKE PAN
Aug 28, 20231 min read
The Rhyme of Fishy Pete (1893)
I came to know an octopus When The Sea Gazelle was wrecked. He appeared beside our makeshift raft Then climbed aboard our deck. He was...
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MANDRAKE PAN
Aug 28, 20231 min read
Albert DuNeef’s Morbid Ululation ‘Beyond the Weeping Skies of Home’
Beyond the weeping skies of home! Tossed! Alone! Abandoned from the familial embrace. A handsome, slim-hipped hunter Brought low To...
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MANDRAKE PAN
Aug 9, 20231 min read
Winsome on the Shingle
By H.R. Pirie. From: ‘Odes to My Little Soldier’ {London: Grenville and Tupes, 1877}, p 29. A meal of clams and sweet green muscles, With...
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MANDRAKE PAN
Aug 2, 20231 min read
Extract, ‘That Sundered Sea’ by Sir Mortimer Lowestoft-Gaskil
From ‘Challengingly Long Poems of the Age.’ Edited by Margery Chupps {London: Gosling & French, 1934} Lashed to mast, the Ocean boils,...
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MANDRAKE PAN
Jul 28, 20231 min read
Albert DuNeef's Sad Lament 'The Wanderer'
Mary Stoic, ‘Songs from the Old Country’ {NY: Humble Pie, 1855}, p101 Lost in the cave of my sorrow. The sad echoes, the sadness of my...
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MANDRAKE PAN
Jul 25, 20231 min read
‘My Handsome Dick’
By H.R. Pirie. From: ‘Odes to My Little Soldier’ {London: Grenville and Tupes, 1877}, p 16. His Apollonian tresses Once smoke against the...
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DIRECTIONAL STEAM BOOTS.
INVENTED BY WILFRED WOOLFITT, THESE CANISTERS OF COMPRESSED STEAM LETS THE WEARER TAKE TO THE SKIES! FEATURED HEAVILY IN THE CASE OF THE FIENDISH NUDGER!
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