Oh good!
Thank you
L
On 9 October 2014 14:59, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It's the thingness in this that is so strong for me.
> J
> ________________________Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
>
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> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
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> Sent:Wed, 8 Oct 2014 11:09:20 +0100
> Subject:Life still
>
> Flesh cut back to bricks, numbers predominate. Lettering persists but
> conveys no nouns or verbs
>
> a few almost exclamations, no more.
>
> The integers endure, all lacking objects, hanging adjectival by
> suggestion.
>
> In due time, they pupate into substantives. One four seven nought
> nine.
>
> Arteries throb. Desires scream. Nineteen twenty-seven forty-five. He
> must
> die.
>
> An exploratory tool digs into the salt-laden mortar.
>
> He cannot bear it. He has died; an ejaculation of agony, and all the
> apparatus dry so that pain rebounds. Each bearing scatters at high
> velocity; and the pain returns, its echo and memory rolling round in
> blood
> jamming.
>
> More than agony explores and remakes itself automatically, something
> useless spun on a wheel under someone else's fingers being made
> useful from
> their point of view, a thing made other than it is by force.
>
> A branch stripped of its leaves
>
>
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