worn sight drift held to
seasonal pace bright
across our wares traded various,
brushing chill of moment
of veins, of oxygen in curve of eyelines flickered
through memory attentive to flesh
& intellect; the coo of dreamt energetic
/ construct optimism
/ collage of experiment.
tectonic fracts to solitude, as mass
festive product bewilders nuanced affect
& critique from the possible / heads above
saturated betwixt positivism / autonomic /
unsustains each of us trivial
against needs laid claim to trying
; to caress
the short cut of your hairs,
by sight
which we might yet know;
snared toward / anxious
saturate of anterior cingulate cortex
in grain of / that the poem wears as delay
& nerve’s attrition routine looping
upon the neck’s cusp caught
w/in immediacy
Yous
thrown / week stroll from cusp
greeted under politicflared grey as trade union midterm
attempts to deter
w/ xeroxed comms;
want, repetitive
adject trudges to whatever gates mustered, stalling
overt in its hum.
the cold encroaches shyness,
downgrading poems & art etc. / population surplus
trying to unite through ware & taxable dole, its multitudes
damp // pretty days negated or anxious at picturehouses
posing melodramatic hollow / ridiculous questions e.g.
“where have all the
cute dykes gone?”
conscious of textual americanisms intoned cf.
all of the sofas in middle england. kindling. palms.
correct laughter for sustenance. Yvonne Rainer
conceptual &/or self-conscious tone of voice.
frequent trains, paying to attend Guy
Fawkes night, inverse traitors operating the gate.
to give lips obscure, again, wrapped in
harmony of hairs thrown or
boarding, either victory
just wanting the wind off my back, fearless of the
river / specific structural / moon absence
toughening, catch
beauty on the body, eyes kept attendant.
bone china clung for confidence as the
institution razes, strikes.
w/out stairs. health betrayed
in collapsed discourse scribbled only in our thinking, aware / coheres
yet arid shreds tones & we tire, weaker. independence as
myth allocated singular w/ the names of us; the part-owe of cognition
(late letter, waterloo bridge 11.31am)
concern fraying eyes of us
occupying
abstract ,
hectors to bleep vicious tones
of the day / repetitive circular /
wet sourced to heads / pulling various our bodies
, to city
where you
dressed favourite , labour the good without remuneration.
worn less verbose / shackled by the
should of the hour's disciplinarity / kid's scream / fearing the
moment closed enroute by
statutory glass, capital's monument //
that I steal this for health,
from theft of whatever self might
be here given lips to beam / possibility tangible as the
bulldozers creep turf graffiti / accumulate /
to not share the site of breakfast
of sorrow humming quiet, umbrella
cheaply exchanged.
to act
from the poem, might nurture the
retained
between our
distribute permanence & surplus, between
the slipping & constants that dry muscles exhaustive
transformed as pageant-daily
/ despondent week public-I & its fiction;
you exit not knowing the clock.