Text-messy age The e-mail kiosks lockon to me as Icruise the Mall. My exo-skeleton — beltbuckle,glasses, the tips ofmy shoes, even thedecidedly feminine gold chainI have around my wrist —lights up with messages. Theyare not for me; I am beingmistaken … Continue reading
There is something aboutthis song, there is something about this song sunglive in Berlin, there issomething about this songsung live to an audiencewho maybe weren’t alive tohear the beginning & yet theyall still remember how theforetelling went. There is something … Continue reading
Chance, as always. Suddenrain & a street withoutawnings. Open double-doorsnearby, the room beyondgaslit. A small hand-paintedplaque, Maximilian Planck’sWunderkammer, read inpassing, interpreted inside. * A personal museum, smallas they always are. Once mighthave been a doctor’s surgery ora dance studio. Not … Continue reading
exorcise_exercise Racquets she said, even though there was no tennis going on. Or maybe it was rackets, & she was talking about the noise up the road, or the way that local builders get their plans through council despite breaching … Continue reading
From the Pound Cantos: CENTO XXIV This is Mitteleuropa. Guns are amerchandise. Have special privi-lege. No retail tax or any of theother taxes, no broken contracts.Everything in its place, & nothingleft over. Let things remain as theyare. A perennial extension … Continue reading
From the Pound Cantos: CENTO XXX I cannot make it cohere abovethe cigar butts, against thisblackness. Here error is allin the not done, what followswithin & persistently, funda-mentals in critical moments.These stones we built on toput land back under tillage, … Continue reading
We / feel cooler / in dry air Parts of the morning collidewith the eventual winner of the home & away series.Not much is left. A few shards cause craters in the eyes, a part-pennant does pennance as it wraps … Continue reading
Eventually Acrobats abound on the benchesof the transit lounge. Everyoneelse is staying clear, washing theirhands in rosewater or anointingtheir brows with the blood ofpygmy possums. Curtains aredrawn across the picture wind-ows, dampening down the noise of luggage trolleys, keeping outthe … Continue reading
Interaction is crucial The most elegant inter-pretation of quantummechanics states thatmacrophages are re-quired for a parallelreality to exist; & thatcan only happen ifzebrafish are the sole peer-reviewed speciesallowed to be taken outof captivity to becomean accepted model forneuropsychiatric studiesinto tissue … Continue reading
Making The van brakes, but at a lessfrantic pace. That’s what lifeis like in lockdown. Differentuses though the same materialsprovided. Now we make single-serve liturgies of cryogenic icecream; filled loosely, uncompacted. She calmed down after he’d fini-shed talking. The photographer’sshadow … Continue reading