'lightless pageantries' - Creative Writing Department - 2025

 

12.

turns from banquet eye

till forage ice

from the commence of null & asked of in the

nothing ever

once

cold distance a bloodless avarice

the sicken of

what hours drift of days of isolate through

bereft eye sung

in stricken echo

of coil within coil dust

to the extent of meat to tear to shred

from the hilt of silence

close of amber reckless blood a

terse marrow

taste

it-bitten lock of blind azure

dereliction

simulacrum tidal

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17.

in the rip of once recorded the burning effigy

silent orchard of razor-rip

pulse light of

the undimmed

strip till fathom taste of ocular

extension

blind what once

nothing/ what/

ever

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18.

as of all walls wounds a surface

a terse collective

the skin of which peeling away to surface graze of light

an abort of sky-dim

nothing of the which of bones

of lack

lapse of all weight

to the skin of shadowing

as extend of which the skinned

blood to exert

through depth what chase of carrion equations

to the hilt of earth

tears

soil sodden with recollect

into which was bailed in

futile

mimicry

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23.

till drift of seasons

of the blood’s

asking of where nothing of abounds

in strip of pale blood

the weaken of till membrane escalate

spit of season

into the gait

of all that ever once nor will

intone of it to the skull of breath

& the arbitrary unsky of toothen abject

the rustic rip of soil

the blood beneath the fingernails

of desire

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27.

the run

the hunt of it neither of the

commence

the

belonging the

act

of burning oneself alive

turn blank shadow

lightless the

pageantries

the throat-grip

dark

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28.

nothing unknown

bones the

curvature of weight ooze of promise faculty

dense as the

collect a turning of the blade/

recollect

skins to shed in the dead what once as onwardly to the of it in nullity exposed

recoils from what pane of

nowhere of to

be

all sudden weight of lightless

turns in bleak assemble

ever of in the

devout of cold drift neither of

the once equational

limit

till shine alight a light

a burn & fossil recollect adrift in dreamt approximate

of all what fallen

the skyline a slash-mark absence

of intent

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'lightless pageantries', my new collection of poems, 84pp, available from  creative writing department