Monday 27 September 2010

technique: 40 poems


1.

technical in
consolable comb
some door
dark then
darkering name of
unnamed flowers
aria of dead
shoes hanging
frozen marmalade

2.

closeby her coat
of wilderness
gleaming syringe river
leans to kiss
wide empty night
sound crime
scenographer purple
shoulder grass

3.

administer storm
navigable nowheres
traitor crying
on a day
of muttering sign
& spindly zero
admonish ba
by tarantula
caretaker

4.

where it rolled
obviated pitiful
nonsensericly
cough toys
sour bread
shears
universal war freak alarum
the song undertheearth
the poor

5.

closeby nowheres
crime leans to kiss
consolable dead
wide empty toys
muttering river
flowers of war
freak underthestorm
zero kiss

6.

purple insanes
book of fiery ice
quizzing the angel
as it treads
the lost forest
housing solution
exclusion zone nervous

7.

they wreck our huts
in invisible season
we throw their shit
for the zoo keeper’s
child heron hair boxed up

8.

other unconsciousnesses
refulgence
sadness
rose tuned
death belt
switchon
hat lurk
quidodd
adagio
lamentoso
before mirrors
tuning clover
hypnologic devianter

9.

serene it turns the page
to face the storm
a quiet light
shouts from the trees
surrounds it
o no

10.

unconsciousnesses shit
hypnologic page
switchon lamentoso forest mirrors
boxed up nervous
other storm
quiet shouts
hat lurk hair
no o

11.

immobile
velocity diktat
moth mouth
sun in tree
touch
tremoring tangible
nil stare out
lyric garrotte
something’s
remember
were
unthought

12.

snowing in the trees
raining on crutches horse moon
the old weaponry book
shooting up
the floor deep long gash

13.

a flask of signatures
jumpy forcefood
deep horizon shallow
earth + docility
their undemanding
surgical music
its lining of fur

14.

prosecution witnesses
the night in its boots
pressing its lung
to the doors & the ceiling
the contest
slit your details
candle of fears
look as you turn
& sing
in the wind
around aban
doned building
a new song
a pit of cloth
oven of frost
the wound-
wind day
angels freaking
bathetic autos
homeland

15.

lyric gash details surgical docility
horse weaponry woun-doned lining diktat
freaking witnesses remember snowing tangible
unthought crutches in the trees

16.

a dusting of animals
almost
alive & the street
dices an unequal depth
therefore is
therefore was
is therefore
&

17.

on becoming
wonders
a slogan
each shuddering
i'm material

18.

each clue identifies
my shoes are silver
that fever an angel scented
tree an ammunition
cloud angel-scented crazy skies loop

19.

correcting this page
your hand moves
minutely reverseward
s the texts
mimic illness oppressed
suppressing autumn beginning
the a year

20.

animals almost suppressing
the page shuddering
unequal dices loop
fever silver
autumn
shoes
becoming therefore
reverse swords
the texts mimic

21.

ephemeralness untransformationed
brick glows talkative
& conjure lined
stringent cushion
hard skulls
shatter like similitude
lean over the upturning
petal

22.

travelling
wooden
blade =
the aura
skin disease of
render
thought
the prettiest killer
capitalist trance
every set
of eyes set
in a cold morning
with their hair all
bundles testing
patience
dealing
in an anaesthetic
viewpoint painted
commodification
agonises blindbuff

23.

in cupped hand
carries a wooden cup
from 1 room
nowhere
it is cold
to carry
this is a situation
experienced
maps in false language
like lovers
who hide on the shadow
sub
urban
then kick
& bite
& stuck
together
fall
from a hair bridge
among traffics

24.

& there is othing there &

25.

the prettiest skulls
bite & suck
traffic among
dealing anaesthetic
their hair bridge
experienced false
morning
nowhere
nowher
nowhe
whenno

26.

by change of
fabric pain
throttled by geese
neo-pantomime shyly
sleepless as an harmonium
digging
metals in cryings
jumping a ladder t
o scratch a rash
are these
norfolk biscuits
is that rainwear
in vienna lovely as an
infancy
waders
jet-black light
detonating nuding
bizarred wrists
confessional
parasite

27.

quizzical heaven
when the stranger gets
warmer in your mouth
festal politics
burying matchsticks
contentedly butchery
heritage eremite jacket a

28.

looking for years
at thread of
city all dead
the backs of cars
all dead
for years
whirling
eventuation
infinite patience separating sounds
no world merely world
architecture law
larceny soup
erratum spider
anagogical
signature
a clump of razors
fallen on a sky
soft eyebrows
wire eyeglobs
pink cement

29.

invisibly attractive graininess
sashaying humanitarian
book of jokes thus unlearn navigation
withstanding correlate
opalescent theatre
pitied natur
e firetune cobwebbing

30.

exchange of tears
unlearn architecture
rainwear politics
as lovely cement

31.

in fear of the trip
fingertip to glassing riot
sighers of creature
barbed ridge land
down at the stars stare

32.

& as the forgotten
so must it be found
bobbling over
flowing rain
where names forgone
simple pleasure
compacted machinery

33.

to stash extraordinary
latch a creeping
seriousness appetite brain hat knuckle
&
calculate lexical &
alterednesses stalking prisoner dream the anxious symptom

34.

nimbus clingfilm vicious
paradise sojourning
artform then
giving a final push to the door
opened a few inches it &

35.

beyond the door gives
final a push to door closed the a few
miles it no end the to
dead

36.

experimental narco
somewhence torturous
defines then spoken
by
think of them
rustic spoons rusted
at the guardhouse if
could only
dewire our fuck this
petition in quotes
then the railway
then the railways
thrown about
hush a storm
of
toes
in that you known a place
of does not mean you are = inhabited
& gone quieter
before begin to

37.

forgot to sleep you
then forgot you sleep
ribboned
thin heavy
pliant countenance
methodical deny
it was ever
hurting starve

38.

crisscrossing errant curses
shot to erupt
plangent nocturnal vowel sands
they work continue
these sly jaw of mist
processioning cartoon

39.

invisible apartments
bled through an afternoon
or invent dazzling
medievalism thus to seduce
dead ants flying
on their backs gurgle

40.

crisstoon quotes
countenribbon hush
then the railways
forgot to you
plangent pliant
defines railway
hurting mist
invisible deny bled dead

3 comments:

  1. oh. a treat! the 40 poems in one place. :)

    going thru this.

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  2. first read thru. man this is wild. going over these at one go i could latch on to the sense way better. more than the technique, could admire the poem. in my own pedestrian fashion gotta say there are enough footholds to draw the reader in & keep her/him there.

    thanks!

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  3. Arkava - very much appreciated, thanks :-).

    I decided to put them together because 40 poems felt right, 'completed', somehow. Not sure what I meant by "technique" now; something that takes over, writes me/them ... hmm.

    best, Simon

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