tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75439282175416276952024-03-24T23:10:17.721-07:00....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.comBlogger225125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-133589667704444542018-06-26T16:02:00.000-07:002018-06-26T16:14:05.197-07:00 <i>The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging.<br /> The punishment for withholding is lifted following the offering.</i><br />
<br />
flows and interruptions to flows. ruptures. raptures. breaks.<br />
NOT blockages.<br />
disjunctures/fractured continuity.<br />
the willfully applied jolt/to jump channels<br />
to switch track.<br />
<br />
<i> the offering which lifts the curse</i><br />
<i> the appropriate sacrifice to the appropriate god</i><br />
<br />
and the winds whirl up again<br />
and the ship is no more becalmed.<br />
<br />
to perceive when, and to whom<br />
what is an appropriate time to wait<br />
to extend the unbroken line and stretch the moment out<br />
and at which point to force the issue<br />
<br />
what is intemperance and what fatalism.<br />
<br />
what is staying the course and what is willfulness and obstinance.<br />
<br />
what is a testing of our fidelity<br />
and what is inflicted as punishment.<br />
<br />
what is patience<br />
and what is despair.heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-5057751660061714632018-06-11T12:54:00.000-07:002018-06-11T12:54:04.878-07:00triumph of the nil. 0.<br /> simian imposition. older structural
principles, compromises and arrangements. the best that could be done
with the resources available. <br /> these endure past the point of their
usefulness. become deleterious. pervert the process. hobble us. hamper
our range of movement. SQUANDER POTENTIAL.<br /> VERY WASTEFUL.<br />
<div class="text_exposed_show">
rubbish dump of human. all piled up and gone to seed.<br />
makes madness. the cage too constricted. beating head against the walls. THOUGHT<br /> can't find a way out.<br />
crude hierarchies. pyramid schemes. <br />
UNDERMINE THE FOUNDATIONS. return to horizontal. ground zero.<br />
0<br />
interalia. terrible premonitions. visions of gory chaos. world a charnel house. crying out for a HERO.<br />
save us. pluck us from the maelstrom, grasp us with an iron grip, sinews of steel, bulging biceps, MUSCLES EVERYWHERE<br /> daddy, I'm scared.<br />
strongman swaggers in to save the day.<br />
"I told you so. Aren't you lucky I was here to rescue you.... I warned
you that the world was big and frightening, that the only law was that
of the jungle, savage and predatory. Without me you wouldn't last a day.
YOU NEED ME."<br />
and with that, the door swings shut with a crash. back in the cell. THE BLACK IRON PRISON. failed,<br /> all over again.</div>
heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-25345652126644048302018-02-23T05:41:00.001-08:002018-02-23T05:41:05.203-08:00Interference.<br />
the signal snarled in noise/and the message fractured/balkanised/in bits-<br /> can only now be decrypted <br /> by those <span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> who<br /> already<br /> KNOW////-</span><br />
<div class="text_exposed_show">
PINK NOISE/the flesh matrix<br /> aural labyrinth/of coil and err<br /> and meander/winding <br /> to TYMPANIC MEMBRANE<br /> skin of this inner DRUM.<br />
HOWL. How? just open your jaws<br /> and scream.</div>
heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-17574265356987259482018-02-23T05:40:00.001-08:002018-02-23T05:40:46.833-08:00pearlescent sky and the tiny lights<br /> punching holes in the mist.<br /> pigeon feathers<br /> purple and silver-grey.<br /> poised between moments. time stock still.<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> perception dilates.<br /> pierces the intractable membrane.</span>heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-63296595124974033682018-02-06T12:18:00.001-08:002018-02-06T12:18:36.342-08:00<div data-contents="true">
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8v95" data-offset-key="9rh7s-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9rh7s-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="9rh7s-0-0"><span data-text="true">scanty grace/glow guttering, slow & out/alone again.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8v95" data-offset-key="9vhq9-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9vhq9-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="9vhq9-0-0"><span data-text="true">the god gone/human only/lowly left</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8v95" data-offset-key="boetn-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="boetn-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="boetn-0-0"><span data-text="true">with human hungers/wholly here</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8v95" data-offset-key="1tfld-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1tfld-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1tfld-0-0"><span data-text="true">this quotidian banquet- call it/</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8v95" data-offset-key="bsfa0-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bsfa0-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="bsfa0-0-0"><span data-text="true">home.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8v95" data-offset-key="bo312-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bo312-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="bo312-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8v95" data-offset-key="68fi2-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="68fi2-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="68fi2-0-0"><span data-text="true">or exile. either/love is here/</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8v95" data-offset-key="5ut5i-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5ut5i-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="5ut5i-0-0"><span data-text="true">not there.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8v95" data-offset-key="7hh1b-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7hh1b-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="7hh1b-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8v95" data-offset-key="a1slm-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a1slm-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="a1slm-0-0"><span data-text="true">blood music in the ear/&</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8v95" data-offset-key="3r5qd-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3r5qd-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="3r5qd-0-0"><span data-text="true">heart at hand/frightened/</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8v95" data-offset-key="1b4t-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1b4t-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1b4t-0-0"><span data-text="true">and clinging close for comfort.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8v95" data-offset-key="a6p2f-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a6p2f-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="a6p2f-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8v95" data-offset-key="dv28j-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dv28j-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="dv28j-0-0"><span data-text="true">capricious spirit/lighting, landing, flighty,</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8v95" data-offset-key="8h5fe-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8h5fe-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8h5fe-0-0"><span data-text="true">fleeing/here a moment, gone.</span></span></div>
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heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-76081475991769734462018-02-05T11:01:00.001-08:002018-02-05T11:01:51.131-08:00Just a Drop.<br />
<br />
There are no edges/<br /> we're always falling/<br /> this plummet/<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> is more fruitful/<br /> than you'd limn it.</span>heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-15695304337308180322018-02-01T08:39:00.000-08:002018-02-01T08:39:18.333-08:00god-gabble/glossolalia/gobbledegook<br />
everything oozes<br />
heaven home in amniotic slime.<br />
<br />
primordial slop/the sea-slurge/shapes<br />
the future in translucent embryo.<br />
perfunctory wave/heavy with salt<br />
deposits life to land. Look!<br />
unfolding time implict/<br />
within the single cell.<br />
<br />
the branching, self-dividing trajectories<br />
of multivalent time-<br />
here/in latent/the language holds<br />
within its letters/all legend-<br />
agitating/hungry to be heard.<br />
<br />
the minded forest/throbs<br />
in unison/the rhythmic alteration<br />
of swelling and contraction/<br />
the tantric pulse<br />
that squeezes along green fuse/sap<br />
till bud/bursts to bright flower/<br />
1000 petals/unfurling/in the skull.heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-16611749903306302892018-02-01T03:24:00.000-08:002018-02-01T03:41:17.918-08:00actually, firs/resinous odour of pine needles/moss<br />
muffling the tread.<br />
<br />
swift mustalids/stir the leaf litter<br />
ardent hope/crash lands. Later<br />
light snow/its burred crystals/<br />
buffeted in rude breezes/to swirl and spin<br />
restlessly/before finding forest floor.<br />
<br />
in olden days/bears,<br />
wolves shrieking/in startled night.<br />
<br />
it's only Wilderness if it can murder/<br />
holding human life/in scant regard.<br />
<br />
deer trails and fox-path through the thicket/<br />
the hot mammal flank/the rise and fall of breath/<br />
the tempo of the heart/quickening<br />
with fear.<br />
<br />
ingress to green myth/dryads<br />
detach supple limbs from silver birch/<br />
laughter/like music/dainty<br />
in delighted air.<br />
<br />heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-46502919375099390382018-02-01T03:19:00.000-08:002018-02-01T03:19:27.455-08:00actually, I feel, thanks for setting up the meeting by the way,<br />
pards, lithe and leaf-shadowed/the corkscrew path<br />
up mountain rise/threatened<br />
by ravening guardian of salvation/<br />
that it not be purchased/<br />
at too cheap a price.<br />
<br />
saved and lost a thousand times/<br />
in swift succession/rising and sinking/<br />
beneath the grey wave/<br />
always wanting/whatever<br />
we currently lack.<br />
For good or ill/<br />
mere greed/<br />
for change/<br />
and shifting circumstance. The price/<br />
obidience/dearest of all sacrifice/<br />
no ownership of action/save<br />
that obedience is offered freely/<br />
though threat of Fall/looms/<br />
the menace/behind the pact.<br />
<br />
To adhere to the circle of that spotlight/<br />
moving as it moves/dancing within that white disc/<br />
disavowing all the growling, fierce pleasures/<br />
of the dark.heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-44912465141657169292018-02-01T03:09:00.000-08:002018-02-01T03:09:04.488-08:00nodule affinity/setback to sausage start up.<br />
Godhead grown to floodtide/saturates<br />
the Organ of Belief.<br />
<br />
In mist of mild imagining/sick desire<br />
strikes its root./ Rude as rock<br />
no stricken conscience may<br />
budge it.<br />
<br />
Enlarge the organs of perception/roused<br />
from engorged phantasy/set to alchemise<br />
the desert/of soft, grey dust.<br />
<br />
All grasped for in meek dayderam/<br />
indulged in voluptuous reverie/<br />
and fondest fancy/is real<br />
can be caught/just as soon<br />
as you can see it.heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-60775878790225445472018-01-30T03:46:00.001-08:002018-01-30T03:46:58.565-08:00
tripped to dumb desire<br /> eyes gripped by greater gravity<br /> humbled now - high hope held<br /> too desperate for pious faith.<br />
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feral then, with longing<br /> eye maddened and thought in flame<br /> behind the curtain of closed eye<br /> all fleshy ambition<br /> is fulfilled.<br />
made idiot with want's demand<br /> all mind else all bustled out<br /> all hunger quick aroused<br /> by hungry, grasping eye.<br /> no look, however lingering,<br /> longing, can sate the loins.<br />
dream deferred does sour<br /> the sphere of the possible contracts<br /> another paradisal gate closes with a clink<br /> accustomed to dull defeat.</div>
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The asphalt shorn away and the stone setts showing. Bone
beneath the skin. Road built on road built on road. London under London under
London. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Roads patchworked with repairs.
Skin grafts. Dark patches of new bitumen.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Oil rainbowing in the puddles. Tufts of tussocky grass, sun
bleached, yellow, in the gaps between the granite curb stones. Dandelions where
pavement meets wall. </div>
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<br /></div>
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The mildews, moulds and moss of a damp climate. Lichens on
the wooden slats of park benches. On the pier caps and coping stones. </div>
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<br /></div>
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Yellow skips stacked. Stencilled logos in blue paint. The skip loaders in the parking bays.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Tall glass carboys filled with dyed water, in the Boots
window display. Red food dye and blue food dye in the water.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Jumble sales in church halls. Dishevelled piles of knitwear
on trestle tables. Sprawling cardigans. Ladies with thermoses of tea. </div>
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<br /></div>
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Market stalls with tilapia, pabda, and snapper on ice. Flies around
the fish. Boxes of Indian mangos. Bunches of coriander. Salt fish hanging from
strings. Cow foot. Giant African Land Snails. Jackfruit. Pounded yam flour. Plantain. Groundnuts.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Broken brick walls repaired with breezeblocks. Juxtaposition
of materials.And the cement smeared all over. Trowel across jagged breezeblock. The haste and carelessness of that sweep of the arm. Kept, locked in.<br />
<br />
The roads buckled, warped and wrinkled where the heavy lorries
travel. Silt deposits banked by road verge. Bollards drunk leaning. Concrete footing half uprooted. Bent in
collisions. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Tumorous, fungal forms of expanding polyurethane foam
filler. Pink fungus around the air vents. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Wild adventure playgrounds of nailed timbers. Crows nests atop
ladders. Bright painted boards. Deconstructed pirate ships, squatting on bomb
sites. Anarchy in the wake of the war. Tractor tyre swings.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Paving stones cracked into divinatory text. A pedestrian’s
I-Ching. Children’s tiny feet skipping over cracks.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Chewing gum lumped on the paving stones. Gradation of colour
denoting age, white and sticky still through to black with the smut of time.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
River humping its freight of deflated footballs, coconuts,
polystyrene, Lucozade bottles, coins, driftwood and bone.<br />
<br />
Bones on the banks of the Thames. Terracotta beaches. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Gruff ululations of the market traders. Hands tucked in
apron pocket. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bananabananabanana </i>3
punnets for a pound. Get your strawberries, sweetest strawberries. Football
commentary on the radio.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Flowers rotting into mulch on Columbia road. Trodden into
asphalt. Petticoat Lane strewn with coat hangers.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Net curtains in bay windows. Newspaper clippings in ground
floor bay windows. Bear bile. Fur farms. Slaughterhouses. Dog fights. Ground floor windows
of animal activists. Newspaper clippings fading in the sunlight.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Looking through the windows of houses. Paperbacks and framed
prints shoring up genteel poverty. Pompous man with white hair and money,
investigates wine round marble kitchen island. Swirling claret round the glass. Potted plants reach out for the
sun.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Derelict pubs with the windows boarded up, with the buddleia
growing from the window sills and the rooves. Glazed tiles, burgundy, against
the frontage.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Truman brewery pubs. Whitbread brewery pubs. Pub signs with
the paint peeling. Swinging and creaking in the wind.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Piss rivers partially evaporated, condensed, turned thick and viscous,
the dust clinging to them.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The off-license bags, blue, thin plastic, flapping from tree
branches. Flags of defeated armies.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Gulls white in the stratus opacus, on the grey cloud sheet.
Cormorants black on the grey Thames.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Bushes loud with the cheeping chitter-chatter of sparrows,
in and out the bushes. Communal and chirping.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Handwritten notices and adverts on little oblongs of white
card, in the windows of the corner shops and newsagents.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Lycatalk. International calling cards advertised in the
windows of the newsagents and corner shops. Taxonomies of immigration.
Turkmenistan. Liberia. Algeria. Vietnam. Phone home.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Fridges, armchairs, office chairs, on the pavements.
Conceptual confusion of interior and out. Four ring cookers in cul-de-sacs. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Olfactory envelopes. Passing in and out of pockets of scent. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Skewered meat and fat, raw onion and garlic mayonnaise. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Hairspray from the hairdressers, with the women sat under
the hood dryers reading magazines.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Hot fat, potato and the brisk scent of vinegar.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Starchy smell of rice boiling, drifting from kitchen
windows. Hanging in residential streets.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Smell of daal in the residential streets. Spices and the
lentils breaking down.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Resiny musk of cannabis perfuming the air.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Stale beer as the pub door opens. Cigarette smoke and sweat.
Waft of foetid air.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Churches with the pale brick soot black and the white stone
detailing kept clean. Like carved ivory around the windows and the doors.
Phallic shapes of windows. Labial folds around the pointed arches. Faces
emerging from the white stone.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Chinese takeaways with the counter dividing the room,
forward facing. With the laminated menus. With the meat and vegetables in
cornflour gravies, Tizer-orange and sticky with sugar. With the gritty curry
sauces and the chips in paper bags. Special fried rice in the foil container. With
the spring rolls spitting in hot oil. Post-war migrations from Malaysia and
Hong Kong. With the names enshrining the optimism and the hope of new
beginnings. Welcome Friends. Double Happy. Fortune Gate. Lucky Star. And all
the stoicism and sacrifice and endurance. All those small heroisms. With the
cooks squatting on the back steps smoking. With the heat rashes and the
exhaustion. Jade Garden. Lotus house. Golden Bowl. Lucky Horse. Magic Wok.
Imperial Dragon. Pearl City. Great Wall. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Staging posts and tidemarks of migration.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Green walls of privet hedges shielding ground floor windows.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Balconies on blocks of flats with the garden chairs folded
up and the white plastic table mildewed. With the laundry hung out to dry.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The yellow brailled paving stones at pavement edge, at road crossing, for the blind. And the cheeping traffic lights at the road
crossings for the blind.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Aztec motifs. Egyptian columns. Flat primary colour. The
refusal of gravitas. The postmodernism of ‘80s and ‘90s.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The chicken bones on the pavements. The cigarette butts worn
down to flocculent white filter in the gutters. The rain mulched jazz mags in
the hedges.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The Bengali garages in the railway arches. Grease wiped on
blue overalls.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The forecourts of used car merchants. The chop shops in the
back. The cash for stolen vehicles.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Plywood hoardings circumscribing wasteland. Hillocks of
rubble. Steel reinforcement rods protruding from broken concrete, rust
coloured. The brambles and thistles and buddleia growing. Cats in and out the
impromptu wilderness. Sycamore saplings reaching to sunbeams. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Public art on private land. The empty sculptural gesture.
Arid abstraction. Cack-handed, thick-tongued. The abdication of meaning. The
statement hollowed out. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Monumental canvases in office lobbies. Security guards
behind giant desks dwarfed by the space. CCTV footage unspooling on several
screens. Fecund tropical gardens in high ceilinged lobbies. Palms and ferns and white lilies. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Security guards in portacabins. High-Vis tabards. Transistor
radio and tea kettle. Bag of white Tate & Lyle sugar.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Hinged Styrofoam burger box. Champage colour. Torn iceberg
lettuce still stuck to burger sauce on the interior. Cardboard chicken and
chips box with the grease staining the card. With the cartoon rooster giving
the thumbs up. Pizza boxes with the Italian chef, exuberantly moustachioed,
grinning, giving the thumbs up. Banded in the colours of the Italian flag.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The Cypriot businesses, with the Virgin Mary in the
backroom. Businesses in family hands from the ‘60s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Growing old with the owners and the children
drawn to a different destiny.<br />
<br />
The chip shops with the pickles and the chip
forks on the counter, the malt vinegar and the salt shaker. The barbers with
the hair model photos in the window. Brooding men shot in black and white, three quarter view, the jawline razor sharp. With the hair feathered. With the quiff
piled up, and the sides razored. The drycleaners with the air humid. The rails
of suits and overcoats. The numbered tickets handed out. The machines belching
steam.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The leaves of London plane in autumn, piled up in the parks,
and the children kicking through them. In the gutters, palmately lobed, jagged
stars. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Sycamore helicopters. Leaf skeletons. Nuts encased in spiny burs. Glossy conkers with the high varnish. Grass seed darts of Wall Barley and Barren Brome.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Modest Methodist churches. Bright mosaics and onion domes of
Orthodox churches. Turquoise and gold. And the money going out the churches. No
more money in the churches. Congregations of the elderly and infirm.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Pigeons hunched on the rooves of corrugated iron. Sunk in despond, with the feathers puffed up against the cold.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Coots on
the canals. The lurid algal carpets covering the canals. Coke cans and beer
cans suspended in the algae. Hard men fishing the canals. Nightfishing the
lakes and reservoirs and rivers and canals. Tupperware of writhing maggots.
6-pack of lager and a spliff. Moon on the water. Fish rustling the water in the
silence. Peace over the waters.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Broken bottles cemented into wall tops. Barbed wire and
broken glass.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Karaoke nights in cockney pubs. Irish men in donkey jackets.
Irish road crews sweating in summer. Road blocks and traffic checks. IRA fears.
Irishmen jokes. Irish pubs of north London. With the joyless methodical
drinkers. Red slabs of drinking faces. Guinness and Jamesons. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guinness and Jamesons. With the Gaelic games
on the wall mounted television. No blacks no dogs no Irish.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The permanently closed or rarely opened premises of
independent electronic retailers and repairers, cobblers, tailors, hardware
stores and ironmongers. All the vanishing monuments to mend and make-do and
frugality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thin old men with intelligent
fingers and steady gaze. Spectacles hung about the neck.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The faded, swinging futurism of launderette fonts. Those ‘60s
typefaces on the shop signs. The glass transfers on the windows. Sassy,
slim-hipped housewives. Husbands in sharp suits. Olfactory envelope of humid
air, damp fabric, steam, detergent and fabric softener. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The painted ghost signs of early advertising. Paint fading
from London brick. Granulated gravy and safety matches. Mild ales and cigarettes.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Horse troughs of hollowed stone.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Mini cab offices where men sat and tatty sofas and smoked
and read the papers, 12 inch television flickering in a corner.<br />
<br />
Streetfighter
II cabinet in the mini cab office. Boys with loose change jangling in trouser
pockets. 30p a credit. Hadouken Hadouken Dragon Punch. Sonic Boom Sonic Boom
Blade Kick.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Betting shops with the beaded curtain across the doorway.<br />
<br />
William Hill windows with a montage of ‘90s sports stars, Sally Gunnel with the
Union Jack aloft. Ian Wright in the red and white of Arsenal. Agassi with his
dick tenting his tennis shorts and his frosted mullet flapping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nick Faldo with a four-iron. And the men
loafing inside spending money they don’t have on bets they can’t win. And the
small time drug dealers and drug runners killing time.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Girly calendars in the tyre shops. Page 3 blown on a prurient
wind. Topless blondes everywhere.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Videos for hire in the post office. Film posters in the
window. Death Wish 3, Buster. Before Blockbuster swallowed the industry. Sandwich
shops before Pret. Tubs of coleslaw and tuna mayonnaise. Coronation chicken. Sliced cheddar.
Cornichons. Pink tongues of ham.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Brutalist towerblocks dwarfed by new development. The low
rise council estates with elevated walkways, communal stairwells and bin rooms. The maisonettes with the council escutcheons on the wall.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Boarded up and shuttered libraries from the golden age of
Victorian philanthropy. Passmore-Edwards and Andrew Carnegie. Convergence of
labour movement and philanthropy. The moral drive. Victoria Park with the
Burdett-Coutts memorial. The great auto-didactic drive. The utopian
collectivism of the labour movement.
That great outflow of energy.<br />
<br />
The sewers and pumping stations of Bazalgette.
The railways expanding the scope of London, swallowing countryside, towns and
villages.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The umber brick with red glazed brick dressing of Victorian
schools. Their gothic aspect, their sharp gables. Chill air of discipline and despond.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The high Victorian gothic of central London hotels, of town
halls in outlying suburbs. The decoration taken to derangement. The chintz, the
friezes, the steeply sloping rooves, the pinnacles. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Peabody Homes. East London Housing.<br />
<br />
Alms-houses horseshoed
around a communal garden. White cat curled up in the rhododendron bush.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The iron-ribbed rooves of train sheds. Light filtered
through dust and bird shit and bird down on the glass ceilings. The monumental space.
The pigeons in the rafters. The cast-iron in filigrees. The industrial cathedral.
The art of the engineer.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The heavy doors of the inter-city trains. Arm reaching
through open window to find the latch. Chanting of hooligans in the mainline
stations.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Moquettes of the London Underground and London buses. Patterned
wool blends faded from use. Seats sagging from arse-weight.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Unlet premises of ex-Somali internet cafes. An economic
niche opens for an instant, and swings shut again.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The West Indian barbers with the crowd of customers and loafers spilling out onto pavement. The community hub.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Vietnamese women in the nail parlours. Face masks against
the chemicals and the solvents.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Billposters of Leninists and Trotskyites, fomenting
revolution.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Political graffiti of the ‘70s and ‘80s. white paint applied
with roller or brush in big, block capitals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>G. Davis is Innocent. Free Nelson Mandela.
Vote NF/NF Out.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Graffiti of the ‘90s. Eine throwups on shop shutters. Chromes
on the tracksides. Tags on train and bus interiors. Big fluid lines of black
marker pen. RCS. PFB. BNB. DDS. All the names of that period. Regret, Diet,
Acrid, Cred, Cos, Teach, Drax, Sub, Robbo, Elk, Cept, Eine, Fume, Keen, Faum,
Mear, Fuel, Shuto, Mean, Zomby, Zonk.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Halls of Fame at West Ham, Fulham, Westbourne Park,
Plaistow, Tufnell Park, Faringdon.</div>
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Tags scratched into bus windows. Acid marker tags. Spraypaint
tags as the trace of a gesture, a fluent, practiced movement, glide of paint marking
a movement. Points of density and points of diffusion marking distance from
wall surface, length of time at place.</div>
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Crossbars and goalposts painted on walls. Cricket wickets
painted on walls. Hopscotch grids chalked on the pavements.</div>
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Tiny old women all dressed in shades of brown. Brown
headscarves, brown overcoats, brown hosiery, brown shoes. Shopping in a granny
trolley towed behind them. Bent into a spiteful wind.</div>
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Orange night under the sodium lamps. Orange light pooling on
the roads and pavements.</div>
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Foxes in and out the shadows, in and out the pools of light.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Flowers in cellophane, dying, drying out, sellotaped to
pedestrian guard rails. Children stabbed to death, bleeding out on the
pavements. Cyclists crushed under the wheels of heavy goods vehicles. White ghost
bikes chained to the pedestrian guard rails. Road dust in the dead flowers. Impromptu shrines to dead children, to dead teenagers. Messages and poems and dedications and memories. </div>
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Tramps gathered round burning braziers. Tramps round
bonfires of burning pallets. Bottles of blended whisky. British sherry.
Fortified lager. Plastic bottles of super-strength cider. Glens Vodka. Bells Scotch.</div>
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Tramps in skag sleep on sheets of cardboard. Syringes in
public toilets.</div>
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Football cages on the estates. Ball clattering into cage
fence.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Decommissioned fountains in municipal parks, the pond a pool
of fallen leaves.</div>
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Churches of Kentish ragstone.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Wren spires and Wren steeples. Spears of white stone stuck
in soil. Bone-needles. Ivory harpoons.</div>
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Flashing amber lollipops of zebra crossings.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Window grilles on the warehouses. Clatter of sewing machines
in the sweatshops.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Anarchists and addicts in the squats. Dope smoking hippies
on the narrowboats.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Barges up and down the brown river. High walls around the
defunct docks. Dock cranes with no cargo to unload.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Smell of the factories at the southern mouth of the
Blackwall tunnel. Chimneys staining the sky with ersatz cloud. Industry at
Bugsbys Marshes.<br />
<br />
Mauve exhaust billows from tailpipes. Carbon monoxide and particulate matter in the chewy air.<br />
<br />
Tyre marks, arcs of black rubber on the road bends. Inscriptions of a movement. </div>
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Hubcaps and shattered headlight guards under the median
barriers. Median barriers furred with road-dust.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Shattered glass of bus shelters like hailstones on the
pavements.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Green painted metal doors of the indoor electrical substations.
Yellow death warnings on the wall.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Billpostered and graffitied street cabinets. Insides a chaos
of intestinal wires.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Ironwork of coal hole covers and manhole covers, with the
names of the ironworkers embossed on their shields.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paint splashed onto
pavement. Physics of dispersal and flow. The causal grid of circumstance. THE
NATURE OF THE MATERIALS.<br />
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Cement works with the cement mixers regimented in the waiting bays.<br />
<br />
Big-box stores on the retail parks. The fast food outlets clustered around the multiplex cinema and bowling alley. </div>
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Whisky miniatures in the planting boxes. Among the dragonsnaps. </div>
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<br /></div>
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Hollyhocks and bindweed by the towpaths of the canals. Hogweed
and nettles on the marshes.<br />
<br />
Islands in the boating lakes. Shrouded in small scale mystery. Cormorants perched in the tree branches, in the Christ pose, with the wings outstretched and the feathers drying. Willows weeping by the shore.<br />
<br />
Herons fishing in the shallows, in the green mud of the river banks.<br />
<br />
Frog chorus in the purple dusk around the pond. Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax! <b><br /></b></div>
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Birds nests woven of twigs and grasses and plastics. Grasses woven with plastic drinking straws.<br />
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Pub blackboards advertising local bands and cover acts.
Ladies night. Disco DJs. Pool competitions. With the comic drawings in the 1970s
style. Bulbous noses like squeeze horn bulbs, guffawing, hands clutching
swollen bellies. Beer in dimpled pint mugs. If they had names, would have names
like Curly and Chalky and Mo.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Art Deco cinemas converted to bingo halls. Red and gold of
Victorian theatre interiors. Red velvet drapes and walls the plasterwork highlighted
in gilt paint. Music halls converted to Mega Churches.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Poured concrete caves of loading bays and underground
carparks. The light yellow and ghostly on the smooth grey walls. The arm barrier,
red and white, striped like rock, guarding the entrance.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Local museums of knapped flints and stuffed foxes, yellowing
brocade and bone china.<br />
<br />
The curry houses with the white linen, heavy and starched on the tables. The waiters in burgundy ties, burgundy waistcoats. The the poppadoms on the tray with the mango chutney, with the raw white onion, with the lime pickle with the imli chutney, with the yoghurt sauce.<br />
<br />
The small trattorias with the candles in the Chianti bottles. With the huge pepper grinders.<br />
<br />
Tourists with glazed eyes of exhaustion and disorientation, on the red pleather banquettes of Garfunkels. In Angus Steakhouse or at the salad bar in Pizza Hut, smothering iceberg lettuce and croutons in Thousand Island dressing.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The faux-vernacular of red brick Tesco stores, squatting on
the town edges, islands adrift on carpark lakes. And the men pushing the
trolley trains through the carparks. And the customers loading shopping into
the car boots.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Flyposting gummed to plyboard hoardings and walls. Concertinaed a hundred
layers deep. London under London under London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Layered in sediment. Raves and reggae concerts. Jamaican comedians on
tour. Compendiums of dance music styles and trends snaking into the near past.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Burger vans clustered round football stadiums on matchday
and the traffic stuck in the throng.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Playgrounds on asphalt. Rubber playground mulch, or woodchip
around the equipment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Swing and slides
and roundabouts the bigger kids push so fast you’re scared you’ll lose your
grip and be flung to the floor.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
West Indian night clubs and blues parties spilling revellers
onto the streets in the small hours and the bass rattling the windows in their frames.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The Bengali men heaving lamb carcasses, headless and
furless, from the back of white lorries, to the shops, blood wiped on white
overalls. Lambs slung over shoulder. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The dark railway viaducts. The brown stock brick. The black
glazed brick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The arching spans of
brick. The rhythm of those arches like rhythm of train over track. “in the
event of any vehicle striking this bridge”</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The corrugated iron fences and makeshift gates of goods
yards and scrap yards.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
NO PARKING in block capitals roughly painted on corrugated iron
gates.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Cow parsley and Alexanders, red dead nettle and daisy on the
wasteground.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Earth shifting and opening graves in the churchyards. Stone lifted
aside and angels toppled.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Prostitutes cards in the phone boxes.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Stinkpipes marking the site of closed down public toilets.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Specimens of superseded technologies, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bankrupted businesses, discredited ideologies,
psychologies and faiths, all preserved like embryos in bell jars, swimming in formaldehyde. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
All we’ve wasted for want of love.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-26622469243245127862017-12-01T10:14:00.003-08:002017-12-01T10:14:35.416-08:00in the grey absence of dreams/monochrome landscape/<br /> and the snow falling/<br /> in softest silence. the mind/<br /> emptied of its contents/and its voices<br /> stilled to struck dumb. a waiting room<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> in which your name is never called.</span><br />
<div class="text_exposed_show">
dead air/the recycled breath/grown stale. <br /> No Exit.<br /> no escape into febrile madness/no logic<br /> as rope ladder/rung over rung/<br /> and conclusion over premise to/clamber<br /> up and out. no pitying angel<br /> to sob and sigh/to descend<br /> on white wings whispering<br /> to save you/<br /> no rescue/<br /> no saviour.<br />
this is how it ends then/life<br /> without growth or age or change/<br /> abiding/to no purpose/<br /> eyes/lustreless/<br /> in the yellow skull.</div>
heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-27394372041258122752017-12-01T09:10:00.003-08:002017-12-01T09:10:44.581-08:00After the Flood<br />
<br />
land phosphorescent/in the white sun/white glare/<br /> from the grass sea/from the hard stones<br /> flashing/in inflected light.<br />
<div class="text_exposed_show">
and a million new birthed rivers braided/plaited together<br /> pooling and pulling apart.<br />
electric colour smeared/in the slick asphalt/blurred/swimming<br /> along the surface/of the black road-<br /> neon fish/in the rain-slick.<br />
land become protean/unfixed<br /> and fluid/as water.</div>
heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-30530937965240154762017-12-01T02:10:00.002-08:002017-12-01T02:10:17.232-08:00Screenomics. Simple/keep it in motion/<br /> the valve is sphincter/unblock the turd-hoard<br /> tightarse/and burn the surplus/<br /> in celebration.heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-85260108608940670462017-11-28T09:09:00.001-08:002017-11-28T09:09:07.032-08:00<div data-contents="true">
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="d51f9-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d51f9-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="d51f9-0-0"><span data-text="true">sheer here/the unplumbable moment/infinitely obscure/</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="cdcii-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cdcii-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="cdcii-0-0"><span data-text="true">the more you look/the more is there-</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="d0j04-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d0j04-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="d0j04-0-0"><span data-text="true">you'll never bottom out.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="no90-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="no90-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="no90-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="9lc9j-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9lc9j-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="9lc9j-0-0"><span data-text="true">sphinx poised </span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="2led7-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2led7-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2led7-0-0"><span data-text="true">and the riddle </span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="89g99-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="89g99-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="89g99-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="2l6ad-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2l6ad-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2l6ad-0-0"><span data-text="true">vibrating</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="7qag8-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7qag8-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="7qag8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="dkcn3-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dkcn3-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="dkcn3-0-0"><span data-text="true">in the air</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="1dtpi-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1dtpi-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1dtpi-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="719el-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="719el-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="719el-0-0"><span data-text="true">warping the light</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="2fufc-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2fufc-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2fufc-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="5984q-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5984q-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="5984q-0-0"><span data-text="true">?</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="e7h22-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e7h22-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="e7h22-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="5tec0-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5tec0-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="5tec0-0-0"><span data-text="true">the irresistible vortex</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="dg5o6-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dg5o6-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="dg5o6-0-0"><span data-text="true">and at its centre</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="cdlbk-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cdlbk-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="cdlbk-0-0"><span data-text="true">sustaining</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="5mt6g-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5mt6g-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="5mt6g-0-0"><span data-text="true">its constant coilings</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="d9np4-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d9np4-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="d9np4-0-0"><span data-text="true">the mute paradox.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="1nm6h-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1nm6h-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1nm6h-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="e13ps-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e13ps-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="e13ps-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="aih1u-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aih1u-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="aih1u-0-0"><span data-text="true">?</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="7s5af-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7s5af-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="7s5af-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="9c3k8-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9c3k8-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="9c3k8-0-0"><span data-text="true">the nadir</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="2vo5l-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2vo5l-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2vo5l-0-0"><span data-text="true">is threshold</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="8a23g-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8a23g-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8a23g-0-0"><span data-text="true">to its uppermost</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f8oq" data-offset-key="4vtu0-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4vtu0-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="4vtu0-0-0"><span data-text="true">extent.</span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-71330356423064249382017-11-28T08:57:00.002-08:002017-11-28T08:57:31.008-08:00Los. (for the birthday of William Blake.)<br />
and the mountains wept and the hills trembled <br /> and the vale was rent anew<br /> with each swing of the wrathful hammer<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> with each downstroke of vengeful might<br /> the land quaked and the land shuddered<br /> reforged, reformed anew<br /> with each resounding strike<br /> with each cataclysmic blow<br /> the land was shaped anew<br /> with each horrible fall of his hammer<br /> the land was forged anew.</span>heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-74067821139074032492017-11-27T09:39:00.001-08:002017-11-27T14:42:21.419-08:00glee glue/gummed to dumb grin/dog-happy/tongue loose lolling/ the rows/of yellow teeth, the pink gums/<br />
exhilaration/without the fear-shadow. satiated<br />
with the moment/wanting no more<br />
than precisely/what we already possess. <br />
<div class="text_exposed_show">
fun run/a rude rabble/jumbled jiggle/of splayed limbs<br />
and sweat-buckets<br />
the Individual vantage/Ego-crag/stormy citadel<br />
dissolves<br />
to oceanic<br />
pulverised/to gilded sand.<br />
feldspar. the lupine ululation. o happy howl<br />
to fulsome moon, moan<br />
with head thrown<br />
backwards<br />
call<br />
to the disc<br />
of lucent stone.<br />
cloud veils the face of Isis<br />
sings the heathen air.</div>
heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-71981430981401567222017-11-24T11:15:00.001-08:002017-11-24T11:15:45.258-08:00<div data-contents="true">
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="5mh4r-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5mh4r-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="5mh4r-0-0"><span data-text="true">eyes flinching from daylight.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="388hj-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="388hj-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="388hj-0-0"><span data-text="true">the intrusive revelation-</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="enoc4-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="enoc4-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="enoc4-0-0"><span data-text="true">exposure. here we are.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="7c3aa-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7c3aa-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="7c3aa-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="6d15a-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6d15a-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="6d15a-0-0"><span data-text="true">feigning some pious observance. (look busy!) pass</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="er3lc-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="er3lc-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="er3lc-0-0"><span data-text="true">for a true believer.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="f1o3c-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f1o3c-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="f1o3c-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="41gtm-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="41gtm-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="41gtm-0-0"><span data-text="true">the surface appearance preserves the order.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="7822b-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7822b-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="7822b-0-0"><span data-text="true">seditious thought/makes not a single dent/not a scuff/not a bruise/upon that perfect gloss.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="c24et-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c24et-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="c24et-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="6pb4n-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6pb4n-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="6pb4n-0-0"><span data-text="true">II.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="2fcoi-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2fcoi-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2fcoi-0-0"><span data-text="true">wait for what? some unpunctual Dorothy to break the spell?</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="5i22p-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5i22p-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="5i22p-0-0"><span data-text="true">Draw aside the curtain/to show there's no one there?</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="cvapd-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cvapd-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="cvapd-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="d7fvc-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d7fvc-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="d7fvc-0-0"><span data-text="true">the impersonal whirring of a self-perpetuating machine.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="8sp2k-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8sp2k-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8sp2k-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="6bf16-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6bf16-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="6bf16-0-0"><span data-text="true">Moloch who devours each sacrifice/with neither relish/</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6sgrs" data-offset-key="ev6oo-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ev6oo-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="ev6oo-0-0"><span data-text="true">nor distaste. </span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-21530782842343891102017-11-24T11:06:00.001-08:002017-11-24T11:06:37.572-08:00<div data-contents="true">
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="2t5g9-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2t5g9-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2t5g9-0-0"><span data-text="true">landfall.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="4ds17-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4ds17-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="4ds17-0-0"><span data-text="true">this ridge of rock redeemed from sea-slop/stands still enough to serve/settle/establish the crop/wait out the cycling seasons.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="dqdm1-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dqdm1-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="dqdm1-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="9qeke-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9qeke-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="9qeke-0-0"><span data-text="true">circumnavigate it/establish its basic form/map the perimeter of its coast.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="fvag7-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fvag7-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="fvag7-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="jn37-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="jn37-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="jn37-0-0"><span data-text="true">explore/the hidden interior. the peaks and highlands. the gullies and canyons and blind valleys/the pillared forests/sun</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="fh9ql-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fh9ql-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="fh9ql-0-0"><span data-text="true">slanting/through the /leaves.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="8nbce-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8nbce-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8nbce-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="40kr2-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="40kr2-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="40kr2-0-0"><span data-text="true">flight of startled deer/clatter of wings/seeking sky.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="a1js9-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a1js9-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="a1js9-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="da05r-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="da05r-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="da05r-0-0"><span data-text="true">follow its braided rivers/tread its swamps and reedy marsh</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="74bdq-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="74bdq-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="74bdq-0-0"><span data-text="true">its brackish estuaries and secluded islets.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="1chto-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1chto-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1chto-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="4o8nk-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4o8nk-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="4o8nk-0-0"><span data-text="true">graph its extremities of climate/the extent/of its days and nights.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="dc1f6-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dc1f6-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="dc1f6-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="7n4nl-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7n4nl-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="7n4nl-0-0"><span data-text="true">speak/with its swift footed spirits/eavesdrop/on their musics.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="2lcob-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2lcob-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2lcob-0-0"><span data-text="true">those sounds which do not vibrate the air/nor travel over distances/but instead/unfold their symmetries</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="8esfj-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8esfj-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8esfj-0-0"><span data-text="true">to inner ear alone.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="3hlba-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3hlba-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="3hlba-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="aauaf-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aauaf-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="aauaf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Ariels of this secret island/</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="fh50m-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fh50m-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="fh50m-0-0"><span data-text="true">on indolent zephyrs/on the jeweled frosts</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="86nnm-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="86nnm-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="86nnm-0-0"><span data-text="true">implicit/in the sudden silence.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="cuino-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cuino-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="cuino-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="1b5ub-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1b5ub-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1b5ub-0-0"><span data-text="true">IN WINTER WE BUILD AND PRESERVE OUR STRENGTH/</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fp23i" data-offset-key="60ue0-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="60ue0-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="60ue0-0-0"><span data-text="true">IN SUMMER/WE SPEND THE SURPLUS.</span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-2802038847538423782017-11-19T13:01:00.000-08:002017-11-19T13:01:31.405-08:00<div data-contents="true">
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="5cpeg" data-offset-key="b40j9-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b40j9-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="b40j9-0-0"><span data-text="true">cuckoo. cuckoo.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="5cpeg" data-offset-key="ap5k8-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ap5k8-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="ap5k8-0-0"><span data-text="true">the mind/the circumferenceless soul/are both as porous as the body/and equally prone to infection.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="5cpeg" data-offset-key="8lua7-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8lua7-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8lua7-0-0"><span data-text="true">SQUATTERS IN THE TOWER.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="5cpeg" data-offset-key="9bg8k-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9bg8k-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="9bg8k-0-0"><span data-text="true">thought forms/emotions/beliefs/modes of consciousness/</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="5cpeg" data-offset-key="eo4sg-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eo4sg-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="eo4sg-0-0"><span data-text="true">all circulate through shared space/cross the open borders/of the selves/like germs.</span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-2634052415539180592017-11-19T11:11:00.001-08:002017-11-19T11:11:15.451-08:00pink fur. the rainbow shatters/and sherds of brilliant colour/scatter everywhere.<br /> sheet music/breaks its frame/and notes run wild/stagger and reel intoxicated/giddy with freedom.<br /> words shake off the ties of signification/operate at other &<br /> various levels of meaning & codification. mapping out a secret mathematics-<br /> the units of meaning/that is/overthrow all structure.<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> the winds blow/in every direction at once.</span>heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-59242239169356201902017-11-19T11:10:00.004-08:002017-11-19T11:10:57.853-08:00<div class="_5pbx userContent _3576" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_88e">
snarled to standstill/knotted like pink tails of the King Rat/pulling in each direction/simultaneously/but going nowhere<br /> the energies fierce/but balanced/mutually self-cancelling/huge power/in energised stasis.<br />
The Black Sun.</div>
heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543928217541627695.post-4644080766565174372017-11-19T11:10:00.001-08:002017-11-19T11:10:35.033-08:00mania is not the defeat of depression. it is the discharge of, the
desperate expenditure, of, huge reserves of energy, in a wild attempt at
escape. A prison break. Run, run, into the dark woods. Through the
bustling anonymous bodies of the anonymous city.<br /> The exhilaration is
twofold; the thrill of temporary and unaccustomed freedom/the ragged
adrenaline of flight. Don't stop running. The jailers are on your tail.heronbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993372516590150498noreply@blogger.com0