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(for Caroline Bergvall)
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F r o m t h e B e l o n g i n g s
a s w r i t i n g
a s k y - l i c k t d i o x i n
f r a m e s p o p h o p e
s l i c i n g u p I d i f f e r e n c e s e v
e n a s I s
p e a k a g e n d e r e d c r e a s e
t h e s e m o t i v a t e d r h y m i n g
s p a c i n g s d e p o
s i t r e l a y s
i n t o m e t a b o l i c f o g
A b a n k e r ¹ s p u p p e t
d r u m s ³ t h i s i s t h e p
l o t s o n ² t r a c e i t
f i e r c e l y m u t e
i n w o r t h y m o r d a n t m o m e n t m
a s k s w h i s t l i n g t h a t c h
[ t h i s p a r t i a l s h e l t e r f r o m w h i c h
I d o n o t w a n t t o m a k e m y s e l f c l e a r
]
R e c o n s t i t u t e d
A s h e n E v e n i n g e c h o e s o r i g i n a
l w a s t e d e s t r o y e d b y o w n e r ¹ s
d i s p l a c e m e n t f i r e a r r i v e s
i n a p r o m i s c u o u s r u s h w i t h t h
e s i g n i f i c a n t t h e t r i v i a l t h
e p r o f o u n d a n d t h e f a t u o u s
a l m o s t
i m m e d i a t e l y t
a n g l e d t o g e t h e r
i n t o a f u l l - o n r o b o t h u b b y
P y l o n e d l i n e s
t w a n g i n g f r o m a p i v o t i n g
a s
p e r i t y
b l e d f o l d s a m o n g s t
w i n d - s u n g b a m b o o s
A n e x i t r e m n a n t d i c i n g
w i t h t h e d u o m o g o l d o f d e a t h
C l e n c h e d u n l i k e
c e r t a i n l o c a l b r a i n p i n k
u n d e r b e l l i e s o f b l a c k
g u l l s o n w e t
t a r f l a p p i n g a r i p p e d k i t e w
a n d e
r i n g h a r b o u r n e o n h a v i n g
w o k e n f r o m d u l l - s l e e
p - s t e p
w e b b i n g p u d d l e s o n t h i s
p o i n t s e a s t g h o s t l y f i s h
e d - o u t d o c k .
W h e r e d o m i n a t i o n i s
b y i n s i s t e n t m a p s
t a r n i s h i n g r u i n s
o f g l a m o u r o u s f a c t ,
a w o u n d - u p b l u e p a p
e r b i r d d i v e - b o m b s
a m i s h a n d l e d b a g o f a l r e a d y
t r o d d e n - o n c h i p s .
I l o v e y o u d a r k l y p l i e d ² s o
q u o t i n g f i t e m p l o y e d a t
s o r t i n g p e a s a n d
c o o k i n g b o o k s f o r s m a r t
b o m b s : w a t c h i n g s
t o c k f l o a t i n g
¹ p u t e d s u g a r s d a p p e r
- c l o u d e d a r i s i n g , t
h e s c a t t e r i n g
s t a r s i n h e m ¹ s t i d e s .
B l o t s o n e s o r e l o o k
a n d I a m y o u r s I d i d n ¹ t m e
a n . C o n f e s s i n g I w a s b o r n
t o l i c k . I m e a n t a m , b o o t t o
o s l i c k . S o t h a t y o u h o l d - m
e - i n - y o u l i k e I k n o w y o u
. . . t h a t m i l l e n n i a l
h o r i z o n o f s u b t l e t i e s
h i d d e n a m o n g s p i c e s u s e d
t o d i s g u i s e t h e b l u e
t a s t e s o f s p o i l e d m e a t
wounding plural. Tied to stoop when glittery
peeps began to show moon on the gangle rocking up
and down hurt sweet. Pished. Pushed into a tray.
Crashed ³wad!² dragged by her baby hairs along
strewn prom.
A knees-up, marching chaos in leopard-skin
copyright pom poms, almost suffocating emergency
gauche dresses tugged up over shining heads.
Whose shields are white trash pie-sanctioned
-turvy-clobbers processing smiling through
a cracked sham-global speaker home.
Web-tattooed faces behaving a clutchful by
buckled trophies as abnormal loads. Shaking grey
plastic buckets for charitable cash on board a
maybe commons bus. Jiggling to come, more boat
than float kin of rack, around lame carnival
glop. Spotlit pirate¹s fingers in a dump bank,
backdoor-encrypting a professor of dolphin
linguistics, entering a hits continuum
fax - bar sound.
A whale area, coned off, in cack-handed fleets
behind runt.
What passes for goods into shared water systems
if we¹ve all got everything already here
is far stronger than that heteropathic dilute
drop, that transitional rope, that is all that is
needed to heal a pure fray.
Therefore leaving and living through statistical
witnesses of diaphonous conversation
she throws paint at himself, whilst desporting
her hoarsest to communicate, both occupyeyeing
and transforming territories
rendered spatial by deliberate irrelevance .
She says the brevity of appearances is part
of their allure.
D r e a m i n g a n
Extraordinary day beginning a new series borne on
continual expectations that that ŒI¹ am somehow
performing live where ever ŒI¹ am flopping out of
early light drawing bare and salted concrete curves
of the earth to a precedent orbit
brings coagulate sparseness.
Porting clouds shaving a lid of birds, skittled to
figuring writing in its glutting formations augurs a
sprawling town of recognitions.
Dust mites under sleeping skin write, purposes
burnt at the root of a hair.
Granting chattering rivers a rust-bent extension;
the public domain where best practice moves on.
Where a stick in the hand is
what sweet and wilt criminal musics
caught peeling from the base of a dark-houred jar.
An oily line then, packed in tight among hangers
- on brutalised politeness.
Found dark zone predators
looking for an heritage bone
waking in bioluminscent traffic me
glueing distracting me willpower to slap
a small boy
tickles me waking
that face off a fibre tiger
until irritation bridled me stuffed transrational
fingering one-stringed fiddles in a slow - delving
deep-shadowed yard.
Then several . . .
dripping onto . ( insert) . tapered chains of spheres
(insert) . boxes a rhythmic garden, transported,
along dirt streets exposing paradox and splicing
'What¹s Our Toil'.
A civilisation of shovelling someone else¹s shit
populated by those who barbecue wet clothes
and claim we are all aliens and have lost it.
Discussing with louses on either stride
out of the loose tooth of a whale
current prices of wheat freight to terror nova
as windows rattle
belonging
begins here . .
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