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Matt Fallaize

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Tin Riot

November from this side and

Light is clear suggests other medium

And lifting bound alloy fenders out between alone above high
Being unknown to fighting by

industrial buildings between luminous
haze forms mysteries beyond
as to the brick-distances shallow

This freedom gas settled behind pale bare stiffened tremor
with the guided yellow

A sky is spread and begins beating
my surrounds will phase by strokes, swings
time made discrete, the last causality

Because roadside shops curve because red gasworks close

Because folding comes in sheets under holes

Decided to know the giving pulse,
senses themselves, all is agitation.

Surface riddles have meshes funnelling through
Dense colour, soaked, decomposing liquor

And the thing reared quiet anything

When revealed, little prepared

Then the falling cleanly
Frames gate passing the light wires, somewhere.

 

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