this is great.
Andrea
> From: "T. R. Healy and L. MacMahon" <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 21:40:30 -0000
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Not another Wild Honey chapbook!
>
> Apologies for cross posting.
>
> Daylight Saving Sex by Randolph Healy, 14cm x 10.5cm, 16pp, is now
> available from Wild Honey Press, 16a Ballyman Road, Bray, County Wicklow,
> Ireland (or from Peter Riley) for USD 5 / STG 3.50
>
> I started thinking about gardening and what a problem slugs and snails are.
> A friend of mine keeps ducks in order to suppress them (the slugs and snails
> not the ducks.) One species being hermaphrodite the other stridently
> dimorphic, I began to think about polarities, the real and the artificial,
> the moment and the aeon, the individual and the national and how they
> constantly collide, often violently. The end result, a single poem, turned
> out darker than I'd anticipated. But there you are.
>
> Review copies are available.
>
> Best
>
> Randolph Healy
>
>
> P.S. Here's a sample from about the middle:
>
> When the wind was at its height
> the glass doors in the kitchen
> bellied in
> over and over
>
> as soon as I heard the blast
> I knew it was a bomb.
> All the buses stopped
> so I had to walk home
> unable my eyes off the buildings
> as if sheer looking would keep them up.
> Neater guano tango.
>
> Florence, tired, is lying naked on the floor
> tearing her favourite book to pieces.
>
> ten girls' length ten girls' strength more pleasing to the
> gods than agriculture or a male with a metallic green
>
> head separated from unstoppable emotion petals opening and shutting spring
> ahead fall back throwing it all away table moon sailor
>
> a mite on an abacus wished it was a fruitbat
> white blank black oblivion either side of this bright day
>
> fear: the inner brows raised by the inner frontalis muscle, eyes wide with
> pupils dilated, jaw rotated and lips drawn back.
>
> the females with a dark stripe through the eye
>
> hot pants shirt of fire
>
> a tart with a heart a prick of conscience
>
> supply artificial dew
>
> the eggs will absorb water swell up and burst
>
> they will not usually cross a copper band
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