DAYLIGHT SAVING SEX
a man who dreamed he was a clock saw blue
in a wasp's nest on the side of a skyscraper
not bones as a document dancer antagonist growing
back to
front, head to tail, trunk to appendage, proximal
to distal
ticking an archetype against the index music
and yeast in
a race with no outcome a
going concern fist finger five
were you aware of the precise moment of release?
the weber as the unit of magnetic flux
small abrasions as a consequence of sex
Disgust: the alaeque nasi muscle raises the upper lip pulling
the skin around the nose and causing the nostrils to dilate.
dom duit dó di
prepositional pronouns
ar an mbord
eclipsis
every day
my heart sinking
closer to my shoes
"what's the
use?"
asked the beer-bellied
youth
in the bright orange
shirt
flogging me a mobile
phone
I was struck
hearing Meg Bateman
read, baby on hip,
to a room packed
with English
- they insisting
on the Gaelic
and hugely enjoying
it
laughing at the
odd
struck by its uselessness
gratuitousness
grace
not the ní tír gan teanga
(no language no
nation) drill
grace
maternity dress paternity
suit
telomerase:
a micro-fountain
sex and cancer cells forever
young
Though nothing is true forever. Which if true must
eventually become false. Unless the one who makes it never uses
it
and the one who buys it doesn't want it and the one
who uses it never knows they're using it.
woman's work jobs for the boys
small grey
the sad one
cool moist and shady
sell the slow
breed the fast
let them starve
After dinner the plume of smoke on the hill was as thick
as a
thumb held at arm's length. Her hosts decided to show
Louise their ghost duck. They were very blasé about it.
Suddenly the
duck went berserk and they all started taking
some kind of drug to knock themselves out. But Louise's
drug wouldn't work fast enough and the duck cornered
her in
a dolmen in the field next door. She said it was very
frightening at the time.
virgin's milk bull's blood
a clean breast a
dirty Dick
a flaw in a quiz-show thought he was a kazoo
everyone is singular the entire plane shuddered
prepositor or prior
light reading snapping their spines even
the smallest neighbourhood
required to diminish to one millionth of
its original intensity
feeding on mice small birds lizards and
insects refusing to
go forth by day to be unplugged approved
or dismayed
males one season females the next
(at the
right temperature
cannibalism will be low)
they will eat paint
also dirt
vineyard milk
spanish wood
washing the walls
for painting
on the eve of Genevieve's
birthday
Tempestua – our gale force girl
born at the equinox,
which I discussed
yesterday
with the first
year science class
they all eagerness,
sensing perhaps
their own storms
around the corner ...
" what's five
to the power of three?"
"one hundred
twenty five" said *****
having done powers
before she was burned out of her
house
and her relatives
killed in front of her,
"very good"
I said, moving on
ten to the power
of one ten
ten to the power
of two a hundred
ten to the power
of eleven a hundred billion
the
majority
bleat stream at mitre still
glint slight timer
metal in transition a crucible surviving
disappearing
timelogged intimate
arteries
we found the volumes
of a large stone
and a cork respectively
A young woman wearing a white lab coat leading an elderly
woman by the arm the pair making one very small step
every
second or so. The younger woman was staring ahead
with a worn smile. Fifty independent facial actions.
Happiness: the corners of the lips drawn back and raised
obliquely by the zygomatic major muscle.
a slip of a girl a bit of a lad
show a leg cover your ass
red heaths end
vigils lie
beyond necessity
entities entities entities
along local eddies and currents turn left
down a gradient into a lake of loss plucked up by a bird
speaking only in keywords composed of basic biological noises
after a salt fused in the universal solvent
ssssssssssssss sssssssssssss
ladder ladder ladder
alms from the clamour
compassing every language
ascending descending
flicking or sticking
the odour a nuisance
when large numbers die
lunar roman apple
or both roles at once
fertilising each other simultaneously
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.
He closed the shop
–a jeweller's.
All the buses stopped
so I had to walk
home.
unable to take
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
remembering the eggs will absorb water swell up and burst
they will not usually cross a copper band
writing to Guy
Birchard I said
I'd sew his book
with red twist
for the thread
of blood running through it
and the white arms and red finery.
I went downstairs
drenched in blood
and unlocked and
opened the front door
to let Louise in
still completely
unconscious ...
where was I?
rattled
not liking the
idea of my body
going around unattended.
Phantoms mount an
Opus to
Span a month
Tap tap a
Hasp opts to snap
Upon atoms
Maps shout stop
Amps stamp must
Not
human
The wine of youth does not always clear with age
spray of citrus jetting from the rind noble rot
shrivelling concentrating intensifying both sugar and flavor
zest yeast gist
calix chalice case or envelope
collective catalytic closure
teeming with fish
kalupto to hide
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