Lancer's Gap
True (late) how tack so little repeat
on a scale thousands wide one lapse /
cycle the same dots tenfold, patient
as breaking honey
fining temper away
clear to the drain vessel, the hip-bone
of song-hollows merits a sampler tune:
wit break sign of felicity pump inner-drumskin
beyond which light arcs in cilia may flower wrongly.
O cambium arras in a ring threatened by blue roadkill
graft on a Camperdown elm these monkeying bronchi /
the unlockable base that came on the sly
imagine we dot the j too long ripening medlar.
Ancestors of the common throat meant this
once only, snaking a crest
out from the heart still subject to insect damage
to a bare sky
safe in the habit of real enmity
that bends.
Inconstant figuration of the hair trigger
(inefficient at getting the sound into air)
a tamper-evident lid pops in
to mark no paradise off no site of ochre
where, if I go cloning the rain surface
eyes projéct to the right margin, meet, and there is no border.
The man with the death's head
doesn't mean anything by it.
Echoes off the Atlantic talk the Ascension down
to pull the long path taut and allow burble in
but you are false, Aurora, and your instep race
a riot to complete the belt and confiscate
high telos in the bull
-dog's eye.
(Balloon debate:
it is a love errs in the killing foam /
aniseed rift in the breath all cold a token fire hazard
fusing the getter assembly so the right
will back out.
Abstract) the goal mouth
hurriedly from burning glasswort
is drinking flux. On the one eye
is breathed no specific skill; in an iris
denseness / critic
you angle in falling waters, logging men of peace.
No solid reason grounds the piping feet
a dove of basalt cracks on the redemptive landfall /
we gain on the closed loop you the extending shockface
take solace away rapidly shaped
like a duck first.
Of drake-stones
skipping across empires of the now partly sated
state apparatus used and the initial dewpoint
you sing the current defaults.
An ear is left off, clamped to earth; no horse
ballast abandoned by the trades to wing it
targets (o, for a scythe of meteoric iron!)
the main aim more here than at usage.
The game is life, the work is death and bondage
freeing up one thousandth part of stuck memory
in the blown mass that is plastic in waste heat.
It all goes cold too fast for true crystal / nightfall
is made final as who know but monitor
lizards on the wrong side, holding silence up.
To seize the mike took 3 years and the public key
crypto-romantic given, and a priming cut.
The collage of the propaganda fades;
interrogated, fails a Turing test.
A bead on sealed air told the spindle side
to strings the puppet centre punches out of nickel;
verbal or distal light surrogate enters threaded gristle /
there is no mail-drop here on the ribbed beeswax candle
but caustics play on the wall.
A hypochondriac
in archive skin descends on deep blue vocal prints
of pitch and place; a volley sounds. The drum
is fundamental, analysed. The drum
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