Monday, 19 December 2022

SHINY HANDLE OF PRE-PLASTIC RESIN



'Man eats meat, and he grows fur.' 

Vasily Grossman



i fall open
like a book
at its 
well read 
& favourite pages

or i try to . . .

but everything flows 
i give myself up
to the noise & the not
to the forever & the never

or i try to . . .

& zen nihilism reaches into the drawer
for a hand-me-down no-name kitchen knife
with a shiny handle of pre-plastic resin
&
slices my good ham thin
in a porterhouse dream

or it tries to . . .









Friday, 16 December 2022

DISARRAY THAT WAS PERFECT



the faces
all gone
that hover there / loom there
like over my shoulder
& still i hear their voices . . .

& so many times we were high 
around a kitchen table
in a disarray  
that was perfect

~

well that is all 
just memories & stuff 

some regular look-back lemonade

a busy fizz
of fond sentiment

always fresh like just opened

~

picture emi cassette tapes 
b a l a n c e d 
on red stripe ring-pull cans

cornershop dinners in a skin-up mess

& sun blims hazy slow glow 
off the drinking glasses

at the end of afternoons
as long long long
as they then were









Monday, 12 December 2022

ROUGH & FUMBLE TETRA PAK TEAR


 

milkfloats
homey rattle
gone now

that dawn 
clink & dink
now a silent 
plastic twist
in the light 
of a fridge

~

& on frosty school mornings
theyd emerge
out the fog
like a friend

by the tree there
on the corner
that later
was almost home








Friday, 9 December 2022

RED BERRIES LIKE GLACÉ CHERRIES



the 
great dark 
brooding bruise
of overcast sky

made the 
rain slick
tree trunks 
chocolate

& the lawn 
a garish 
green limeade

red berries like glacé cherries
rudely trumped the fir trees reach








Thursday, 8 December 2022

YING YANG GOTTERDAMMERUNG, PLEASE DISCUSS



good poems
&
bad movies

are the ying & yang
gotterdammerung

of the west

like the sunflower
who looks its own way
the machine made beef

please discuss
ask if you need more paper
hands up for the bogs








Wednesday, 7 December 2022

MEAT DOWNLOAD

 


jagged & drunk
we had fondue
on the balcony

& watched 
a hundred trains 
roll into waterloo

in an autumn 
that was winter 
too soon

~

& later 
stretched out 
on the living room rug

i watched 
upside-down 
out of the window

at the  h - y - p - h - e - n  flow
of planes 
into heathrow

counting my hangover 

  d
  o
  w
  n







Monday, 5 December 2022

STACKING THE FIREWOOD




sitting upright
in some kind of meditation kip
i plan ahead

plan to stack
the firewood
by the apple tree


& i do
& so it goes

orange leaves abundant
on the dusk lawns trippy green






Thursday, 1 December 2022

KETTLES SONG

 


i bully myself
out of 
bed

my 
body feels
made of sticks

i force it
to the kettle

& listen 
to the kettles song

low sun touching the armistice
of the night sides dusk & dust