Saturday 4 December 2010

8 poems


Der greise Kopf

Some celestial

not known

At this

Countenance, slate & snow.

arrive from nowhere
arrive from a map
all the buildings
are language & were

The rough noise
Precariously
Shadow of hair
Will not lie.

*

Still snow & slate
& virulence
A pretty sleeve observed
Ghosting/to observe.

adrift


Rast

forgotten
dull

Material equine ripped
Stillness command
Shit by tooth.

never
ends police

*

Someone from prison

(The trees drum frantically.

luminescence;

Translated to the original, echoing.

*

Which is how the meadow got its name, abattoir of innocent popular song

it bleeds
flowers of snow unendingly open
petals chained


Die Nebensonnen

The sky beneath
Sinking in scar depth.

from all countenances photographs detach

begin to fly

when the snow

jangling descant

The famous scarves of bees given in token.

*

Gobbled by the survivor, treatise & guts.

corridor
unending
until
were there
cloud-shiverer-rags
rage of stars
an animal
in our pain

*

Disturbed & destroyed

BLEAK

beak mouths
negative plenitude
bare socks on wire St. Stumps.


Hush

cities strange to themselves

patting my thumbs

& subtle snow

humanity or sign

Being murdered in splendour cloth
Reading the messengers hung in trees.

*

Intravenous trace, a railway line deep
night, these are significances plucked
from the loved & their lovers.

*

deployed


upon it lullabies can be scratched

out speck of bird


Treatise

red-pearly hair
& the nets are emptied
& the birds lie still

*

A long way after Mayakovsky

spittle STAR
EMBRACE shivering, ticking, scalding
Then the bird
shadows lift.


Adrift

Enclosed brilliance. Police horse leaps
is here in the river
into the day lain among stones.

*

The river writes memoranda to itself knows our names & where we are not

known at this address.

*

dead in a chair waiting for the moon

*

a powder beneath blurred eyes
Nothing appears nothing disappears.

*

Nostalgia was a chain
found around a murdered bee-keeper’s toe

The procedure

can now
be effected

by distant
control


Discourse

scrap. Cognition
pathos. everything huddled
Digging in blindness
unidentical signature
weather worsens

flat-boat tarpaulin
atmospheres nullity
replica future ache
instance erotic
greasy footfall

weather worsened

a family always
describing their pets

sunrise “like” a “patch” “of” eczema

*

Which way

seemingly
thin as pins
Rapid Response.
throaty laugh
a family laugh

fell many floors

a cheap carpet
disavowed meat
thrown at the river
All glittery & blood-black.

*

Observed
Appear to observe
Marching song
In all things
River’s snowy eye
lashes. Took a thumbful. Stuck them in pins
Of eyes. Horror
Several experiences
Continued to find

A name struck
Deep to the horizon
Came along so close.
It was nothing

So Long

There was a time it was thought
lived up in the earth
Not down on the clouds
as we now know now.

Fur-red spittle;
myriad birds in a box

Ellipse

great hounds tide-cloaked controlled on\by ropes
police poultice

a football
falling
footfalls felling

Over-
head
lines
lain
throat
/exegesis

*

Daubing
encrusted
fingers dance

longingly
the neck of the woods

again

flowed through a kitchen
a moon “soaked” bus ride

unpopulated killers. Million of yards & finches.

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