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31 July 2013

I keep forgetting to mention I moved my blog here:

http://somehowconstant.wordpress.com/

01 May 2013

a month
a middle name 
a young god 
a curve
one revolution
one circuit
one edge 
overlapping the groove




29 April 2013

the gone
the ghost
the last train home

28 April 2013

tonight
I am a graveyard
if I cant dance
so I do and I do 
and I eat 
the night 
with ambivalence and yen 
kissing both cheeks using no words
kin of old queens
kin of queer
kin of sharing
your last cigarette 

27 April 2013

in the ask
in the hips
of hello
and the abstract
sense of time
it's nice to meet you
in the grey
ocean of your mouth
and the history
of your skin
in the tide
of your tongue
it's nice to meet you

26 April 2013

you multiplied
into your skin 
into the concrete hymn of the bend
it was data
it was tender as the bite
it was an arrow 
it was blood
it was an outline
a calm
circumference that coiled
into the meta
morphosis

24 April 2013

swallow the swelled 
sense of rage
the pinch points 
the punch
ease 
the context
through the needle
into the wider 
mouth of us
draw blood


23 April 2013

  sign the waiver
eat the wind
the fragrance of jest
the realness of skin
eat life
in its own hardness
unpick the myth
of potency
the sickness
of stars
                                                                                                                                                             and
                                                                                                                                                      then
                                                                                                                                                 that
                                                                                                                                             one
                                                                                                                              exception

22 April 2013

I think it was you
that long Friday night
flat out on the platform
puking blood
I had to roll you over
hold your hair
out of the way
now your walking through the station
Monday catching in your throat
like a bookmark
tepid
and tired

21 April 2013

 
how the shadow stills falls  
at the same time of day
slanted like the skin
of the margin 
I made
          clean 
                 slate
weight of the knot
and the why
not
cost of a tongue
in a fat blue sky

20 April 2013

46
and it's not eloquent
years
your wife
wears her best top
not to  overdress but
to ricochet the expectation
you put £500 quid
behind the bar
so we drink to your time and your
gentle way of being
your sisters in their soothing
irish tongue
sit at the table and talk
about their drive here and the food
I wish
I knew the bones of you
better



18 April 2013

the fog 
of a cut out moon
the bloodline
the road
blending with the bend
a square
on a square on a square
roots splitting truth
into roof top hues
border
lines
fists that aren't
really there

17 April 2013




Ricardo 
you are made of ink
of hospitals 
of home
your breath is like a fist
made of sleep
you sit like silt
like a border
like a line
deciding where to bend
your pulse
belongs to doctors
to machines
you are made of half the story
your the end of my shift
your my bus ride home
your this thought now
 


16 April 2013



the stalled train the anger the rage 
that crawls into your face 
in through the eyes the teeth the feet 
the way your body 
is an instrument you play you play you play 
until the strings are worn the question 
old 
and sliding 
down the perspex 
onto the ragged heap
of rush hour blues that accrued before it
before your minor key spit 
added to the blend
of I wanna get home and all the wanna get homes that came before it




15 April 2013

 
broken like the light like the pulse
the walls are walls are walls are walls
incessant how the curtains
still need ironing
after the wash the wash 
the wash they hang 
in the only lick of sun
on the line the line the line

14 April 2013


















 
  I washed the dishes with fingernails full of poems
  I watched the cut lip sunset turn truck stop pale
  unfolding the crow the crow
  unfolding me
  he said to me that winter is the way you breathe
  I kicked the gravel and his dark
  heart
  and washed the dishes 
  with fingernails 
  full of poems

13 April 2013

                like origami
                folded through the I 
                the we
                and why not
                this low tide of slices
                over
                    lapping
                bent and grooved into
                the old
                into the old
                sense of self
                foetal bar code bliss
                illusion and her skin
                illusion and the strong
                wet grip of theory
                like origami
                folded through the I

12 April 2013

      scraped into the hue
      whole
      forked split staggered
      into the apex
      into nothing
      neglecting a quiet smile
      kissing all the synonyms
      and antonyms
      as if I mean it
      just in case
      just
      in case
     




11 April 2013

  on closing my mouth
  self 
  similarity
  the constant angle
  of an alphabet 
  a coastline 
  of words
  of punctuation
  between the teeth
  marking the omission
 
 

10 April 2013


before the thought, and after

 

09 April 2013

the day didn't curve
it stayed perfectly still
it stayed easy
between shoreline and affection
the broken lampshade
broke
into pieces
into my hand
light bulb bare
it broke easy
the crack
I'd been tracing for weeks
cracked wider
into the skin

08 April 2013

I ask you in callouses
in the callouses of my tongue
looped together
in the blues
in the lowest chord
in flat notes
in tune
I ask you in knots
and scars and smiles
I ask you in islands
in the islands of my tongue
I wait in the shade
and I never explain
I ask you in islands

07 April 2013

I hope in the curve
that rarely curves
and the force
is not force at all
it's a slip
of the tongue
a wish for roots
that are wide
and deep
and awkward
I hope in the curve
that rarely curves
I hope in language and how nakedly it breathes 
I wish I 
I
hope in the curve and in the eaves
of sacrifice
I hope

06 April 2013

valuing honesty
and the crooked way it spills
all the may
bees
gathered in threads
queued
in pulsing knots

05 April 2013

"silhouettes are slip roads" she said
"and bones are bones"
her question ssssss
put skin on the skeleton
old skin
old as the ache
in code in code
ssssss she
split the oak tree
with sawdust on her lips she was just below the surface still
deeper than the root





04 April 2013

girl eats the wind
it tastes like Tuesday
it tastes pignut white
she plays rock paper scissor
inside her mouth
dumb tongue versus
dumb tongue
exfoliating madness
with a salty
cucumber scrub
skin smooth as wise
men
saying nothing of the women
she has loved
for what is there to say except
they taste like Tuesday
they taste pignut white
they play rock paper scissor
inside her mouth


03 April 2013

Wednesday we
resurfacing
gather into complex needs and envy
the trees
without their ribcage
boneless
and joined
Wednesday we
resurfacing

02 April 2013

holding onto the romance of death (or the sentimental margins of loss)

and the moss didn't move
just like the honeysuckle
didn't seem to care
you
beneath the earth
between azaleas and daffodils
every finger
and thumb
covered in dirt
in the blood of dirt
as if the garden had skin
and I had peeled it raw
and ragged
you and
the dust of you
one slow slim lick
of the wound

01 April 2013

Peterborough Services

here again like ghosts
I walk half the oval
anticlockwise
holding your weight
between my hands
pushing you through
the winding queue for burgers
between blue neon arrows
waiting for the bolt to slide
VACANT
your body
lifted slowly
and after
I washed your hands the way you
had washed mine
was and is
the was and is I walk
half the oval
anticlockwise
remembering your weight
between my hands
that old wheelchair now
returned the things
you have to give back
the places
that remind you

26 March 2013

 
 
 
 
the idea of your mouth
settling in neat
unavailable lines
and then the memo the imago the myth  
the mollusc of spring 
unsegmented 
the cool
culling of circumference


 

21 February 2013

awkward stitches

the trees could be winters' bare tongue
against a grey unmoving sky
I can hear it 
it's discontent
as if picking a colour oversteps a boundary and offends
with the streetlights on 
its a bruised kind of blue
I can see my lampshade
reflected in the window as if the window 
is a room I'm looking through
I'm looking out
of
me 
and my incandescence
I watch the washing line 
make its own horizon
condensation 
creeping up the glass in the glass between the glass
I wish I couldn't describe
I wish it was impossible
what it means to mean nothing
the page blank the thought unfed
its darker now
not just the lampshade
now the walls the painting
the coat 
hung on the door
infantry
a ladder
a loneliness
a crying newborn
no one listening
just the walls
compelled
reflected through the window
in the window
is the window

09 February 2013

Nancy is an Alleyway


Nagasaki

I
asymmetrically

waiting for the weld to hold it was supposed to be a stanza unfiltered language loose hipped and bourbon rich leaning on a wall paint flaking onto its shoulders like rain like old September like Nancy when she cracked her skull against the wall

Sasebo

handing off the baton

the wall sighed and stuck between her teeth it became her even the air vents cackled into the
sweaty breath of Peri Peri Chicken Dreams or DreamZ as the sign said in slow lazy neon tattooing
light into rusty drainpipes moss on their lips

Saga

letting go of gone

dripping the sweat of twenty bathrooms into one small metal square in the ground with half a
peppermint pressed into the grooves she was propaganda she was every corner

Kumamoto

beginning to give

she became it’s bricks and mortar as if she was nothing or a part of everything people died in
alleyways people had always died in alleyways but she became the alleyway she became the trash
can the tarmac the drainpipe the graffiti

Minamata

you
your open hand behind you

the piss the cigarette butt the fox at 4am she was a wasteland watching restaurants close The Slow 
Grasshopper sent their last few diners home

Kagoshima

threading the air
it's infinite axes

minimum wage baristas dragged rubbish outside piling empty barrels into short fat columns building 
their own kind of Acropolis out of draught ale and empty pitchers sound of broken glass spilling on
her thighs as bin bags tore discarding fragments of time

Miyazaki

blind transfer

dark bathroom windows with lucky cats waving their paws like grandfather clocks in abstract
meditation

Nobeoka

keeping the pace

or stuck somehow between movement and thought repetition imploring jagged recitation

Ōita

breaking out

it grew through her toes and what she imagined was her mouth why should her body fit together the
way it had before

Kitakyushu

on the backstretch

now it could build itself it was its own architect her elbows were a fire escape she spilled her fingers
into shadows into light into the dawn

Fukuoka

qualifying distance

alphabets climbed into trash cans into crisp packets into milk carton crud into dirt into the pulse of
everything that is not Nancy and the rain beat against her