from Notes in a Manor of Speaking
A wave of gym-slips giggle
into the baggy shorts
of the segregated playground.
Women equal at the alter
rails are useless against their sea.
Welcome the typhoon
spelling a rethink,
The force of the avant-garde
bursts the dam.
Anne is preparing
for her child's naming.
Religion in a name.
I followed you, walking hand-in-hand
beside the rail along the promenade,
trailed lines with my bucket and spade
behind you, believed that would always be.
When I was a child
1 spake as a child
The teacher says
'Tell us the colours of the rainbow, Ellie'
'Redorangegreenbluepurple',
she says securely.
'Nearly right'. A
cloud passes over the rainbow,
over the little girl's face;
the point where all the truth she knew
is lies.
Sir Isaac Newton, pretended
that he saw orange and indigo
in the first colour spectrum
he made, then he could list
seven colours - a lucky number.
'Miss'-quote,
Chinese whisper definitions
Word of Mouth
A lucky number,
number of black cats.
Hearer's belief
on which we act
belies the rainbow's end
I will reach and run up
I place my shoes like a letter T
in hopes my true-love I shall see
Drop a stone in the wishing well
Prostrate in the mosque
The spell of dis-belief
The word made flesh
David Jones says
Press every allusion into your Ambrosian racket,
ransack the sacred canon..... glow
Cleptomaniac collage
echolalia
cleptomaniac echo collages
echolalia
cleptomaniac.... maniac…maniac
This is all rubbish
Skip it
Language apart from action
Action is language
I do therefore I am
I speak therefore I am
I think therefore..
I s-tink therefore..
Remorse a pathology of syntax
on the prynnted page, where
most audacious lies pack
the throat with steam
Pin-down: the shouted
expletives of anarchy
pin down the lepidoptera,
veined wings
fluttering drying
pollen flown
word
without end
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