Tekno
*
*
Years after the grey chrome
token no-sense
news
UP and AT
That their own word
reverse
be the tekno-trident
you pull out of the stone
*
*
Robber-sites
I arrive
I admire (as it were) the bare walls of the tomb
to find no back-button permits release
the blocks fall
to lock me in
Brutally I’m gar ’d reconnect
*
*
In ices
I trickle of lime
to my fridge-box
my gob
to undry fire-anger
surrender me
*
*
Consonants are couplers
or carriages
in my train
Like there are puppet-flats
Freyja with corn
*
*
Ayam bored
an the whole weight of autumn blue pressing on me
not marvelling
at TV tales of crocuses
‘it amazes me’, they say
as gentle opal ovals of smoke transpire revolve
lung to coffee-cup
sleepily I murmur a ‘twat-head’ at Blair onscreen
*
*
The irritated poet and
the useless rubber (writes not)
a lineless mind
that trick us of the spicey air
come bulb, come spring
*
*
Sudden stumbling of states
Natural gravity
Like falling asleep
*
*
Serious man nods to serious man
dynamic lady sweeps thru, issues orders ‘you and you’
subordinate offers a little information, ‘sir’
rude n ignorant crowds make angry noises finding themselves cordoned in
‘Please remain calm’
I sup chocolate mousse, me, an infidel,
n switch channels.
*
*
Who controls the wheels moves time
whirring and rolling
perplexically
starrish gear
(listen-us, listen-us)
Are you
turn-time?
Do the mouth-tappets dance you?
Perceive dragon turbine?
On the Jerusalem causeway
bended ahead
(always telling you)
The mammal-slain
past-and-now
gesture of antique road maps
of Old Testament warriors
But we excel the wheels
(in a slim chance that)
*
*
With what plump surprise
the BBC invade Thibet
for the best bit
is an Olympic swimming pool
the top of the world
has generously acclimatised itself
to Michael Palin
Did he dream well
in Gyantse?
*
*
That am little conformable to a midi
But love the woodwork’d piano
When Johannes Zumpe remade the clavichord
to a long square
retaining a wrest-board to the right of the strings
a simple action that projects the hammer
independent of the key
And the key still governs the damper
cloth than felt.
I depress the key. Beyond the pivot
a free-rising jack pops up to
prompt the hammer, its shaft, and layers of leather and felt
each element to move free after for fingers initiative
on its own pivot or guides.
As much as I admire J.C.Bach in London
agreeable to write sonatas for the new technology
new durable wood/metal/cloth
that only need sustainable tempered tuning
to impel the whole of west-music.
*
*
And the carol is
the arching of the plank
the rubbing of the sinew
as the moon arranges tides
dead elocution
a nation of language
which decides who to employ
virtue by credence
*
*
Billions
Live
In excitable oxygen
*
*
That thing feed us
Grow coffee n barley
Bears our wars
And it eat us up
*
*
I disperse the spells
I send them in ocean
Open zero
Series Z
Page(s) 35-40
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