Course Requirements
Commodious comodity, alert
this instance to your overlord,
perform inheritance in subways
whose clangor imitates inebriate
cast out sluggards wandering
earthward after hours locked
in proto-spaceships, that shelf
where denial meets the open
alacrity of us. In this, we
resume telepathies that link
futurists (those who live only
in the past) with Farrakhan,
whose violin sings through
broad phrasing articles of
impeachment, genetics the matter
for an embarrassed icon to dis-
play in front of the unfaced men
in bow ties who nod and so diminish
messages left for the intended.
Now parables are screened
for a disorder that breeds not
wisdom but a contempt of stories,
progress a clarity pulled like
taffy towards nests of wise
acres swift as koalas, puffing
eucalyptus in beamed conservatories;
and so innocuous buzzards make
base harmonics to drown the soprano
performing arias in a spa where
sounds are steamed hieroglyphics
we keep meaning to crack. Tame
celebrities wallow in the cement
will of sidewalks, pressed signs
one was there who kissed the camera
lens, invoked beacons or deacons
of the southern church whose base-
ment pool contains a worshipper's
oil beads; conversion's a game
that plays us out for transformative
souls or fools whose histories are
susceptible to change of content,
nay even form. I saw her afterward,
her eyes corridors toward resurrection,
tombs opening up to reveal Antigone's
typology, a tragic woman substituted
for Christ, lacking only the lyric "I",
dripping like a faucet before firearms
are banned and the lost children
of Port Arthur live again on the Isle
of the Dead where cormorants are no less
appalling for being endangered. The ship
rises and falls like an archer whose
myth is soon over; a teller waits, knowing
curency depends on audience, attendance
on a policy spelled out in advance
of this latest incident, the hit and run
vehicle that stunned our favourite tenor.
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magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The