Chris Torrance
Maytime
For Barry MacSweeney - a tribute
with sexy delight
songthrush celebrates
riff after riff
glories of May
ragged as
walkway busker’s piping
pigeon’s
tail feathers
ancient trees modern noise
agitation acute
planet endures
just above stalling
red kite
creeps over turf
my scavenger ego
shadowed by buzzards
skeletons in cupboards
infinite intangibles
act of writing shakes
wobbly chair
build sound dome all day
insect instruments leaf whisper
a single combustion
destroys in an instant
smooth lenticulars
brow of an angel
over charred grasstilt of a double axe
over a screaming stone
the dominion of man
each wind rocks
wobbly chair
each tectonic wave
shakes the skull
whipped by spider silk
death of a brother
windblown pipit
takes your soul
out over rushes
a shiver up my spine
your crab cancer implacable smile
9 - 18 May 2000
Page(s) 181-182
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