Managed to eke this one out between sneezes… Drawn back the ragged hand scratched by thorns nails torn on jagged stones Stained into fibres a studied melancholy told in hoarse tones jostling with gentle drones Revealed beneath the excavated dirt buried in layers burned beyond recognition Denatured the fragments once buried here then a poison, [...]
The future used to be so fucking cool… Forty years ago none of this was a consideration The future was going to be better—easier We were going to have time to do what was important We were going to have peace and prosperity We were going to be a planet not a collection of nations [...]
I got off to a weirdly early start this morning—including checking the Poetry Marathon website for interesting prompts that came after hour 12. The hour 17 prompt (basically the same as the hour 4 prompt, but with different photos—I chose this one by Wei Ding), combined with the Paddy McAloon/Prefab Sprout song ‘I Trawl the [...]
It’s no ‘Disaster in the House’ or ‘The Roof is on Fire’, but here it is. Our wretched refuse live in a house of white built by muscle black and brown and occupied by Agent Orange The race no longer goes to the swiftest the aging tortoise blocks access to the track drunk with power [...]
I have no idea what prompted this. The recital The more fanciful among the crowd took to laughing—out loud this time A threshold had been crossed one there’d be no coming back from The piano wire should have snapped right there and then for all the blood that rushed to his face The clean, sudden [...]
I was in editing mode today, but I finished this just before midnight. 1 I love in secrecy and silence These should be the two places where I feel safest instead I suspect everything I feel must be visible on my face from the yearning in my eyes to the blank expression I try to [...]
Somehow I fell asleep while watching Jaws, prompting this poem. (Yes, it’s true—I have never seen more than the first 20 minutes of Blade Runner, because I fall asleep whenever I try to watch it…) 1 The undisputed king of falling asleep 20 minutes into Blade Runner (with or without narration) falls asleep during everything [...]
Can’t have Side A without Side B: State of Contraction – Barry Adamson Speak Now (Or Forever Hold Your Peace) – Cheap Trick Short of One Dimension – Exit North It’s No Game (Part 1) – David Bowie Korendor – 細野晴臣 (Haruomi Hosono) Black Hearted Love – PJ Harvey & John Parish Same As it [...]
Inspired by this playlist I just made. It’s Side A because I can only play cassettes in my car these days: Do You Know Me Now? – David Sylvian Invisible – Pet Shop Boys Patience (pt. 1) – Areni Agbabian Blue Period – Jon Hassell What the Fuck Are We Saying? – Lenny Kravitz The [...]
Inspired by seeing the cover of Kate Mulgrew’s book How to Forget… All the things (excerpt) I want to learn how to forget all the things I remember all the things I want to remember all the things I have to remember all the things I’ll never remember all the things I still remember all [...]
