

OriginalsOriginalsOriginals
The conch's twist holds an old world. Just beyond the glossy rim
where the shell curves out of sight a half-full bottle plunges into the sea. The green glass has no end, its sides spreading
light like a coloured lens. But this ocean is a dark edge, as if eyes had never lifted
its hard dermis. A wave curls and becomes icecream in a turqouise bowl. You are here, looking through spirals at someone else who is you. The bowl empties and a cold signifier stings the skull.
This time it is no echo &


Headhunter's DirgeHeadhunter's DirgeHeadhunter's Dirge
we the window- takers, spear spirits. wei-wa-la. the bright tooth
stabheads the spiked skulls thrusting. we suns rise razors on the eye lift lids oh sightless oh.
fashioned death the artifice the fire and workman hammerless but bloodstained: metal pour in, metal pour away.
we long lean sharplid shadows wear away with the moon.


AttritionAttritionAttrition
People stagger back from the city with stories of folk half-eaten,
stubbed like smoked-out cigarettes, legs sucked up
into their torsos,
people grizzled away by asphalt, leaving long arterial streaks where they kneecap-drag.
Their organs beat faster, heavier.
These are the pavements pounding at the soles.


When You Are Sick of DreamWhen You Are Sick of Dream the Men Fall DownWhen You Are Sick of Dream
You will know the signs when they come: when the glueblood river rakes the bank like a stomachless animal, and ravenous;
when something in its belly slugs to you.
You who will know it
by the staunch pout of the navel, and its pregnant
curve: a vacuum bag of all the abstracts that it gobbled,
a starving mass of self-ingestion.
By limbs. They are not numerable; do not try.
Reachers in all dark matter, subdued to the gnaw of fingernails and the slithers scrape
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