1902
The phonograph records of a fellow’s character are lined in his face/ on a flattened disc rotating horizontally, diminishing from the circumference to the centre/ the stories told of these men are translated from contemporary records, and are curiously interesting as revealing the inner life/ obtained by these solemn follies. They comprise the transposition of letters in a given word/ in addition to the rotatory or revolutionary movements of the foetus there are others of a rhythmical kind of which tracings can be made by means of a graphic apparatus/ I filled three sheets of paper with it; then I got a carbon and manifolded it/ in a little railway station on the Victorian side of the border. A woman of the party became suddenly unwell and brought a little stranger into the world/ a short, thickset man with full beard got out and entered the tavern, registered, and was assigned to the corner room over the office/ had a low ‘difference-threshold’ - his mind easily steps over it into the consciousness of the differences in question/ sung a comic song and was in the middle of a breakdown when he caught the eye of the old man fixed on him and a lugubrious voice said/ that guy that doped me, he wa’nt satisfied with my good thirty-dollar wad/ full of charm and freshness and simplicity, will appeal to all who like sometimes in quiet moments to/ empty lakes, drain peat-mosses, embank rivers, grub up forests, turn grass into arable land and arable again into grass, and, last! how the first night they slept without blinds, with the moon looking in on the pale child who soon grew stout and chubby.
Page(s) 148
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