From 'blood rhetoric', Oneiros Books 2022

 

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disfigur(ed) limbs of sun & the fall(en) ashen. try trace what held begun asked of density what children aspen coil(ed) till frozen bloody/ oceanic

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mirror lapse that ocular distinguish. colours no. long hour rot. to the fore & nothing cadaver more. eye feels the blood of which composed in depth of acrid laughter/ outpour

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last hour of no measurement call of the without scattered breath oblivion caress of none what will till breathe expels colour the lapse lack scald of once forage till drown no sediment no ghost rhythm escapade

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seizure solace seizure absence one wilt to bear of the stitch close of wound belonging birth it-reach of none what lock a cold eye dusted realm of speech reclamation spill of all sun light unto where from desire of

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one formless than another reach of what wilt till spill teeth jagged wishbone exigent despise the cold floor the majesty it triv/ ial caress of bone weight nothing rhetoric collapse density of foreign adjustment

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scarred without a pilgrimage a shadow's tooth & nail of breathless desire cold meat a nocturne a birthing weight of reclamation sudden to disavow claim lapse a bitten butchery of light

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razor blossom shoot along veined edge of papyrus extol blood absenteeism given to colourless pupil expose trace acrid shadowy expose where teeth lock shale of white till sparkle diamond crimson drench in meat curtains as if to call final lock of night where silence bind if

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empties no not of out of collapse coil closure stitch bled ashen promise of what speak we it till foreign desire of echo breakage stillness null of trace strip of skin cadaver mist of colourless ocular bruised meat flung unto hyenic jaw echoes from out of which what night

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 zero pelt design of through fragrant excise all froze what hollow dense shit in vein's collapse as ochre trace across where ancient landscape rest no worth collage of flesh till burn what haven trace of tongue across barbed wire caress(ed) bone obsolete kiss of trace/ given

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Sketch 2017/ artwork 2021

…a-bask in skull what head exigent nullity spoken of as was before breaking apart dense light carving up the dawn disclosure expiration traceless given no taken nor taken given no echo-dim traces speech-dead recollect a-breathe in sickness scuttling throughout…

…passage lack lacking trace cold shadow of pelt wrung out voiceless after was in all no the persist of onward into nocturnes to behold ever the disclosure silent as what stun not a/ lack/ vocal tread throughout misgiving taken from what edge collapse sun dead foreign eye in a…

…all lapse till dense what held echo tremolo escapade shadow-bite in rip nothing gained nor taken from cold weight cast off breakage of bone skinned of flesh of never having never wishing to of ever-lung trace till unto desire lack close the wound it…

…yet the laughter of of the course for dead shadowings as if to say that was in or of what as if to close coloured it screams silently never once having paces the boundary until final never of in spoken of unspoken silent from the commence ever the outset…

…as all what once to the footstep taken upon moist earth sink sunk dead weight collision ever-in/ in/ mocking the body broken the burst dam of blood in the body broken circulating throughout mire’s outreaching fingers...

…breaking from fever sensed through wind abandonment closure of the sky folding in origami soundless breakage of faint light through a cracked sun leaking nothing more than was from outset words cascading into voidal nothing left ever onward unto what…

…the fevered tongue of jackal devouring in night close the door it will liquefy seek solace in headless abandon clasp the heart that leaks blind chalice the cup over-floweth distances non-distance all…

…as was/ desolate commence not a sound breaking the cold chamber where whittled purpose seeks solace throughout the blind air the skinned parameter of blood nestling in meat’s absurd-closed lightless pageantry ever unto where from it was said…

…it is taken from selective ashen drought from outset being nothing seeing less than other than throughout until what once once tread syllabus evacuating from dread mis-speech walls implode a shearing of fragrant a bone to pick away the scars that amass…

…and all along as if to final were once closed the fingers searching in drought’s pale elixir breaking apart the catacombs of having once where there never was sickness to dredge from some point of departure until until…

…until silenced beyond longing cold weight of distance coiling its way back in to choke-stone exigency nullity of devourment escapade none where lapse drinks of the wounds that trace hence unsaid never to be in cylinders of blind bitten struck out collapse unstepped not a bleeding out unto…

…endless of the spat once out from disclosure lack words dissipating of their never once in the hands that crumble also till dust departed flowers upon gutter’s tongue silences that gather in their transparent children mocking the anguish of settling shadows that never once…

…better then the garrote the cold tears the erasure of self-non-self in tragedia no motion unto waste a clear fragment cascading into blind weight lapse no directly striking the vein’s cold chalice where abort if blessed nullity taken from vocal echo-dim…

…the eye struck out erased not a solace in the irredeemable lack weightless psychosis gathering up the charred milk teeth of having once been solace of collision reckless flesh stripped away cold colours in blight stone abandonment taken as of given no not a…

…and of yet yes of the tread back inwardly from nothing clamour of sharded lights shattered the pulse of nocturne given to speech’s reclamation no nothing there in the faint light echoing veranda of skins shed flayed bone the tissue spent yet ever resurgent some fucking lie from outset solace not a trace nothing ever of...

text no. 9/ 2011/ artwork 2021

 

no. 9...breathe again, till sudden, cessation -no, gallowed by the fever of it, the drought of it, ask of it again, no, not known, all said/ begun, with what flourish it was held, step beyond, nothing there, never was, not the how nor the when or why, eviscerated it might be said, till what, how and ever, begin, stop/ start, cleft alone, wailing of the drifting shadows, no recourse, headless, alack, no, nothing, shape gestural or formless, ashen light, the half-scar of it, blinded still not known, no not ever, (retracing again), I’ll leave or I’ll stay…grasses knee high and the bone revealed through the wound like a slashed sneer, absence of tears, of course, dead now, hollow shun, hollow shunt of breaking lapse what from which the sneer, the hollow, the distance furthering, all said there was ever nothing, till what, what next, lapse and then…raking through the skull the fever like a talon light, no force, breaking still from what line, haven, and then from what foraging, stealing out of the silence, dread birthed like a still blue sky, and the cupped hands they cup fresh blood mixed with ash and a symphonium of the dead man’s advocacy, bloodless eyes reflected there, no thought, erased, time erased, knuckled to ransom, slice again, laughter again, collapsing spasm, breath again -breathe, cylindrical walls they rotate out of which the dead light shimmers, seeks to strike the marrow, I cannot, no, haven of flesh spilled foreign like a deserted shore, dreaming of the caress of the caress of the ocean to erase the footprints, else or not, stung, bitten kicked and punch drunk, not a word, not a murmur, stammering all the while, my dream my death my sun my pulse, the lay of the land, glide, glide, web spun, cloudust of…I’ll know I’ll not know, given the advance, working the flesh, always the same, never the same, spill the shit of dreaming, of ice, I vomit laughter lings, deft pageantries still-born in a heartless scope of atrophy, break once more and be done, I’ll go, breathe again, stammer and pulse and the mocking itch, the stitch womb of it, the burn, the scald, dead summers of waste and wanton, filling the bloodless eyes with light that was never wanted, not once, breath again -breathe, the less and less, ever erasing, with what ease, drifting, drifting from far unto I’ll leave or I’ll stay, no, not a maggot’s chance, stone in the eye’s reaching fathom, as if one were being transported yet never having left the dusts of that final room alone, cigarette smoke I-will greased, hissing upwardly, step non-step, stepping forth or back without an ounce, not a taste, licking dried blood from peeling painted walls, exiled by this way or that, roots to rend to fertile nothingness, well call cards, shimmer, shed the skin of the endless night, known for the never once breathed, breath -breathe again, no, stop/ cease, a mimicry this or that, call it being, spat out, the jugular severed, the swallowed tongue of ice, paralysed knowing, steam, lock-held, at the beginning of it, what less to know, pare away, (I’ll know), nowhere to from out of the searching dark, the hands cold, body in raptures, it begins, it ends, stop breathing…                      

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'(in)sensate', a book of poetic texts & paintings by me, now available here  With thanks to DM Mitchell for editing & design & to Paul Cushley for photographing the work...

Sample #3 from 'nothing ever'

 

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…in asphyxiate of terminal edge cold dredge from it commence taste of bitter ashen of broken lights collapse into given tremor forgotten bled from once sensed till foreign trace of shit upon meat no longer forage for in or of inactivity silence as ever as drag hence taken as before from out of reach given to redeem lack lapse of all once saying now none ocular roving colours simulacrum visage trace of distance lack where to have is to dissolve landscape nothing absent breath as all what fallen ever of some nothing once sought finality of excursion as if there ever given to unto as if to never once lapse in thin light scars to cast to flame of which what or other of forever night from which to null & voidal collision into passage from flesh to liquid traces swarm lack to caress taken from what speech dies down it to of which nothing of what better of excursion into lapse longing echo-faint as blood to raw absent shadow cold silence as of butcher’s blade nothing to feel for no nothing there in shades of crimson night forage follow breakage of neither to speak of cast aside as of debris scattered words upon barren earth tones of which that clamour for half-light birthed from breakage point of haven merely an end in sight it cannot be advance where to sculpt of night cuts shadows upon bare fleshed desired of spit of broken laughter to terse nothing of it what claims to behold through shattered glass pane secrets to set to light in voidal incapacitate whereof in lung set to light cancer flowerings gather in denuded eyes till dress what dawn in rags of disappearance claimed from hence it bleeds unto throughout in or of silence tangent nothing of to broke is to stun dark haven night where all is lapse lack of some design long forgotten an outset of long distance throughout where fury pageantry closes its fingers as if to choke noose pilgrimage of scattered petals of frozen blood upon rind of snow long distance absent of presence of  upon confetti of lack upon nothing ever was from outset yet belonging to from commence of it silence in ever of in wishing to be no more than was in silentium of outset forage for dead tides burnt blossoms colourless appeal where once naught is to be in other than what realm soundings upon where to of no morrow absent of till speech dies down nothing of where else is to follow meat gouged out empty skeleton carcass syllabus design as if from having in nor of close of wound wound’s outcry is to be in of what matter foreign sun no matter fingers to reach for as lens fades to erased nothing to then of in throughout where to of is no matter hence all is dead as final black tar to ever know of it in closure of what lung’s desire for cessation all yet nothing for taken of/ of/ upon/ light to rot as of in throughout to trace where to have neither of nor either if shaft closes in mind as all what all that once was soundless echoing in blind space in cataract design where all dies down elixir tidal of motion lack taken from dischase given to electrical fury a kiss of cold stone artery dressage of fallen sky upon where flail upon flail is to elected to burn blackened as pares away throughout cold solace absent reaching for of some nothing of in void dissolve spills blood of vocal eye never of throughout to reclaim what matter of some wishbone trilogy absent longing for it all done for says of it in or of in final echoing from future tense as tears to brim in eyes that have forgotten hands dead by sides of it to never have ever once neither of some reclaim colourless appeal psychotic winds caress where to fleshed is fleshed merely sickness of to thrash in shattered membrane terror at/ at pitch bleak haven asked of no not a nor of nor else nothing of which to lay claims upon salt in wound of headless attrition another pulse another escapade of bedamned lights in an escapade of shit where only of it to be redeem of solace nocturne closes it hyenic flows freely what hence till known silent as was came it alongside nothing of matter sheen reflect in mirrors of bite eyes to burn of throughout where once was little as before demarcation in silence carved upon reveals some flesh some meat some blood where haven dispel is to nor of in that which cannot nothing where locks in of which where once a colourless apathetic broken as of stone to divide nothing ever for tomorrow ash in veins ever as before till of in else breathed as of sky’s pelt given as was once till taketh away all locked to echo’s dim forgotte(n) seal of eye there another here another in vacuum chamber undefined ever to of nor naught reclamation distance of which till close of hour slashed through given to expire nothing of it of in what else to follow in drench accord close of hour to sever once again it long dead as of ever said once then thrice distant all as nails dug into flesh to grip to vulture tearing as all in weightless flow of eviscerate of nothing where to of closes wound drag of heels throughout as if to in an obscure end of flight what locked to meat long shadow fallen to nor if in out of fury pageant closes burns of ending in an effortless disregard where to strip from lock of eye trace of electric pulse not a till burn what of there is no trace of want for better excursion taken by maggots what they are not nor of which all what gripped throughout a vellum parchment drags alongside where to dense weight lightless abort all sung for some stretch of spe/cial never to be defined as floweth counter-throw taken by non-sight unspoken hours to claim whereof till bitter pips spat out in gait of unrefined stone decree all solace never once breaking from hilt till shattered glass overtures made to unto if at all nothing more never of whereby what of cold light to rot & ultimate disintegration spill of innards a throat slashed ever of to/ not a word not a trace where spoken by is of some corrupt blind effigy whispers in utter null what or if no matter of it till close of wounds for some syllabus reflect given to distance no nothing ever was taken from what given as trace alongside closeth no contract breathless harvest collapsed into as dreamt of less than of through gutter tread whereof till obsolete a scrag of excrement of nothing child’s toys broken as of which as neither remark upon cold shadow of eyes upon through silver haze unto nothing claimed from nothing to reclaim through silent winds terse as blood is stubborn until bloodless final mock of itch stitch of redeem throughout what spectral desire to final weightless sung as of for neither of/ in drag of caress of absenteeism & all that what once never of throughout attrition wastage tidal ablaze as if to echo of it fades out null void & silent gathering of winds to collect ashen footprints observe of eye alone neither of remark given to trace throughout some dense or other fragrance ever of as spells it all out in a mock lung traipse gilded light eviscerated by final listless ever of some nullity factor of breath dim quantify of light that emanate from stitch of wound to burn of it fade of out of view utter utterance of tidal remark neither of whereby unto foreign as of exile breathless devour of entity knocked from ‘sunderstray till vault closed fist a transparency devour of which till nocturnus breath all colours to meld before as of flesh to disappearance nothing less than collision breathe where to of what matter given taken from till dislodge of silenced silenteeism reduct as if to/ cold shadow of tread where no structure to of which redeemed in lack of blood throughout breath emblems nothing as before where to warp of sheen cast before as kicked of shit veritable knock upon all said what longing for never having been yet other of throughout where to motion throughout distance trace eye alone & a bitten of throughout whereby no place for it in or of what matter close of wound to acclaim sung aloft from indescribable lock of stone closure what realm of which where to be is of nil & ever flames of which gathering in the pelt of sky alongside trace of lapse of none spoken haven to destroy as if it kicked up dirt a frenzy a reek of  birthed from out of which ever as before neither of nor passage of amputee of caress through ghost-limb tongue some savage desire for utterance yet cannot in a pageant fury of which all what lapse of which into of given eclipt as echoing to leak from every porous exclamation turning aside or of flies upon bloody waste pass through given fleshed disaster colourless appeal yet rank with silences a gaping mouth a solace of mesh through which bile escapes ever of through which some collapse of/ a skinning pit of never of where to rock some cradle of a graven thought to opiate sleep is in neither of nor breathe eye seeks to settle never as before as fixed of gaze upon where sky is of abortive wound of sun as of/ flies brushed aside no matter as if from ever dissipation of collapse into frozen yet of ever of longing to weep from whispers language of forgotte where to by what else of fade of out listless desire close of nothing ever of where to lock is of to ashore knocked upon where to vertebrae sickness of to dredge frozen wastage of night glorious paralysis of dust fury pageant of marrow ablaze until it final ever extinguish of eye of body vocal edge neither of some lacerate through whispers dead tones collect of blood beneath butcher’s fingernails echoing laughter of some damned reclamation in dim forgotte(n) silenced of in allwhile other than process of reclamation bile to cast upon shit-deliverance of through skin’s absorption little what of in a wastage of unsaid knocked asunder stray breath(en) flux turned to whisper warped womb of white heat sarcophagus of froze white tears ashen promise of all of forgotten ever of what traced before through warmth or otherwise lack lapse given focus of intent upon where to of is to fragrance of elected to this a broke stone tragedy of cards cast no await of dawning into to become of some never having been or otherwise decide it otherwise decision null feeding frenzy of hyenic final laughter as if to mock what tread is of nor other claim or no what from/ why from distance no rooted to given to speech declaration a bloodless night collapsed into of which until tidal opulence of blood come to shores of till dread of which haven lack all shadowing devour colours of which of absence tidal oceanic spillage of breath where to embalm is to nothing ever waste wounds terse where to closure space lack of definition one singular edge to caress a razor silence all at once unsaid to drift whereby cold drift of broken amulets seeketh from as night impenetrable bite down crest to fall upon where to shiv is to breathe spectral as given in shadow timescale of desert clime absent of sky no linger taste of ashen promise where of in now of which flat-lined eyes that seek to utterance collect lime quarry of searing membrane a shattered glass pane of transparency inept as ever once of other than cold weight to lack other of through which dispel seeketh solace drought of echoings traces burnt to dust…as if to/ all but once never favour of adrift skull compress a sequence of riddled flesh meat to tear throughout… cauterize of once cannot neither of in final as seeks semblance to taste nothing of being-in emptily drag of pelt across absent landscape stone clad as burning of where flesh to be is sickness of where to nullity bankrupt veins a/ motion lack of absenteeism where to having birthed once in absentia in reek of blood’s tide calls cards they are spent as rotting orchids adrift in some foreign breeze settling in distance obsolete breathed to un-sky trace of lock-a adrift speechless as of once ever of some shadowing collects in din refusal echo to trace reverberate of skyline sieved by fingers cold dust of voidal exigency of bereft light end till none lapse of throughout a shimmering of halo tread of limb warped colourings bite in darkness overture vault to breathe of effortless to crush in thin lights subtlety of blade to caress in fleshed abandon eye see eye sees once or other a scattering of embers in shit breathless of to burn of it a knock a silhouette silence bleeding out where once was of sustained as of in which till of what of in or less than as nothing of obscure distance no longing for to burn as of blackened meat dissolve spasm tread throughout gild of absent razor slash eviscerate to the hilt of ash an evacuation of piss of shit-stained dusty sheets blood to lack as of some colourization as limbs once foraged die down in listless slaughter mock of stitch of some reclamation taste of desire in haven of where to flesh is to absolve is to breakage subtle cold light as if in which of uttered blank space a point of light to fade as a pupil’s invert inter-spasm of line drawn white chalk through spacial lack of definition a mercury of shimmer bleed dredge of in nor of a gouge of mouth stretched before unknown clad in pelt of nothing ever rind of breath scarred without longing for to settled within of spoken unto where none of being is of else in dreamt of spoken of what shiv to trace throughout where to of abode blackened sun light absence of sky corrected if yes or of breath shredded of purpose other than through as in tint of blood electric carcass eye of genuflect buggered from outset laughter echo-long spattered shit across defunct walls a syringe breath of nails in meat stripped to warped light escape of essence no collision memory amphetamine vibrate of steel cuts to bone of eyes ablaze a solace realm of rupture lights peels away skin of breathless opulence to reveal the pulsate of meat of sarcophagus entwine spits realms from none given to abort where freely of is burn nothing of in that nor otherwise adept of in or of in of call of cards dense meat & absenteeism in a fury pageant locked to the once dead algorithm/ silence all of in as of where to embrace is to shock preference of being in/ marrow discharge of excrement in veins bound tight till collision shadowing what of hyenic as of bled in vibrate thrash of mercury of bloodless silver clasp in specious recollect as words climb to veritable heights neither of reduced to silenced realm of discharge echo echo heave from out of which psychosis film upon membrane of silt of breath of some never recorded utter reflex tide of spilled cull of cum shit blood & piss throughout where to be is fall silent dead shadowing streaks of sky of endless night birthed from fingers made to rust made to burn of it in pale light dim as before it mirror mirror of before in which to view some detract silenced dead as a lie spill of fuck it hands dead foreign kisses tread what will from outset nothing of some ever-was of some restless bite arbitrarily bled slashed wrists of no purpose dead traces furtive to blossom ever as until final rot scars undone in a reckless of what meat what solace burns through black heat vibrate of one or other unknown walls dissipated merely open space of reclamation silenced through silenteeism drags out some kick & shit veritable where to breathe is to spoken of all vagrant desire for…special to be within as speech dies down in a glint/ tint of titanium all colours fed to machination of machine of colourless traces before which some simulacrum presence of no design clear cut wings of breath eye alone it transfers through silenteeism pageant in a foliage of spent blood of distances no longer process as if from drag it hilt in a vicious detriment elected to nothing breathless piss upon an open wound till dredge what closure tongue ripped from a gait of powder-white bone white drag of terse obsidian flower death severance to call out into where echo of to be is never answered of clasp-knife wishbone cut of some breeze to descend upon as if it had never throughout mocking of striation of breathless ripped from a castration of tongue ripped from some banquet of fury unobtained to offer…false solace of breathe of pulse blood fathom collecting of in or of where scum divide a-bask lightless realm of spacious invigorate silver diabolo & a reek of silence in all as of in never ever dense as if to say that collision trace of specious collide where to as of is to final picking scrags of meat from shadow lungs of fingernails bitten down to a wick of final bloody absence...

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Sample piece #2 from 'nothing ever'

 

from Section I

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…stun blank weight see null close weight stun dark hollow of eye lock nothing paralysis gesture rip blood another none absent lapse flow silence vertigo eye snap bone cut echo burn black null seize broke stone night nothing collapse all once remove it-shadow snap cold chill fever frenzy of ice lock strip meat none abort carry lapse it what follow none of which to taste breath vulture flay wind of once never outcry depth drift dead forage upturn eye/ as fall final ask it no collide spill crimson shadow silence nothing ever closure open sky one other if subtle breath dead once cull it-breathe stray night as of sung lapse afar distant amber lock hold ever null what drift collision of trace what once cold flesh breakage bone collect fathom out what once never of silentee echo dim collapse ever drift all done said what close door ritornello wind abort walls womb ever night nothing before spit laughter/ un-…wound pulse overture lack unto vision of erase night all palms cup psalms dredge eye wilt ever excise have of it nothing ever dredge what waste spill enzyme collect silent bone shadow lapse it wilt cold dredge of light upon else in-dream shadow ice pelt coloureality nothing ever what lung trace a/ bit shale opulent cauterize ever foreign all all dense what of shear meat speculate obsolete ever as trace of/ winds collective absolve no closure emblem it laughter broke valve black erase commence spill of bled gone once gnaw jawbone crack close spell of hesitant as grind of lapse what fall forage distance ever bleed null all split sheen emblem taste strip veins shadowy dislodge it of throat final caress blade bite upon bled lack once until remove cold colour semblance redeem astray cold colour froze rind upon what ever nothing trace broke stone ice was once no collision flay wind dirt clog silence of ever hunger avarice what nay thrice pageant ever no not once scar upon pledge deal whereof upon cold skin attrition tear lack realm solace pit sudden ash collapse what breath exit yes or no regard from distance upon trace null shatter to be done ache it colour what if in speech disclosure no solace spit upon gait strip skin reclaim blood swarm until ever-light sedentary rip cold sheets violent trace of which disregard never once ever nothing ever cold dice spill/ of rip dealt distance null closure tongue strip have of which walls wound absolve drought abandon collapse into/ as/ ashen concrete breath intake cast of where once none all drag will wind tongue froze teeth night ablaze echo entity pennies upon eye/s salder weight nothing of ever neither if what done it cold lapse shadow upon smear meat till crack breath haven solace no nectar fall(en) hours upon rip meat of closure gait impale flesh stigmata silence of veins open skyline blood to caress it done fade out until echo landscape nothing labyrinth of no some other than eye froze weight it closure upon lapse upturn till ongoing fingers twitch blade din of meat scatter broken reclaim it vicious goes the…/ depth vault / shatter obsolete tidal outcry silent expanse shadow nocturne ambient slaughter petal cast wind effortless ablaze exile bound bones null speech redempt nothing of it abort what will final edge strip skin opulence night edge colour-it lapse neither it locket spasm broke stone flesh erasure solace whisper orchid breath observe clear sight blood in mouth weight shit collision harvest bones bled nullity obsolete nothing fall eye fall further nocturne spasm utter dark wind of edge redeem struck from out cold shadow syringe dust swarm maggot glow of sun fathom erasure skyline fall bled out till collect meat din of excise exigent of night deep stillness wound collect flesh mar mard spat out unto eyes smear out fall nothing of what till of collect drag until devour purpose isolate dense walls erasure butcher light dense night ever reek deep meat terse will what end of flow ice barb sculpture bone unto advance cut short bleed of eviscerate cold chase ocular death breathe semblance it waste upon/ foreign ground obsolete terse what absence ring-a-ring-a-rosey guts torn flagellate soundless as light all what said still-born attrition famine feast upon night film cataract shadow light burn closer still never if/ other stone wind lapse blood burn to obscure dense ice echo colour sear what of excise given tillage flesh veranda/ as/ extract broken terse obsolete words prayers Ave wastage still tension ache attrition feast or no discharge callous cold dredge abort reverb traceless origin fall ever of it hands dead foreign tide stricken from proverbial ever terse it layeth no forage concrete seeds upon nothing ever circus pageant hyena vibrate laughter long shadow fall gnarl upon throughout it to follow breakage bones lack stone deafened colours that pare away melt plastic waxen exposed meat strip of skin flowering grave nothing visible fingernails extract of blood pared light colourless attrition ice will wrench it of which door slam gait reveal shard of embers traces white lapse fission fallen fission/ exit sign metallic reek it breatheth it absenteeism of mirror crack hasten shadow drag of kick scream fragment all what sung/ spacial close of tongue swallow down (sh)it crack fingers fathom echo of to touch recoil in flame/ it/ black of out spoke broken asp of which collide/ breakage to touch passage through liquid light/ observe flame butcher lung edge to flow through din light kaleidoscope all what night walls burn black inhalation razor efficacy nothing ever/ cane blind trace seeks what in all/ excise/ null by mouth close vacant effortless silence shadowing nothing ever there once of which snare corporeal night eviscerate tongue torn collage sky torn across wet blood spat laughter echo silence flow of fathom no it taken from till silence ever weight bone collect gone as once traceless recollect din terse what light forage unto bereft light cold water flow dense lung nectar haven close eye burn it to of trace of elect pageantry silver where shadow realm lock collage semblance ever rip gnarl spill fuck upon denuded flesh entity lapse solace reek strip wind sudden once ever as trace desire promise cull final forage words erasure all bled from never less absolve long shadow distance tidal reek havoc nullity collapse stray silence engulf listless as ever less it emblem ablaze sudden to expire kaleidoscopic strip ever taste wild shudder expel blood warp to taste drag silt have or broken neither of as was what once cold collision membrane embers shadowy trace ever as bites it lock further forgotte(n) pestle mortar bone dust taste attrition absolution foreign night unsung pageantry solace breath night’s embrace seasonal hour escapade brace as if once known repeats it false start collapse no fingers of outreach recoil sudden white flash static light dense meat haven as rot of which subside terse abandon hunger avarice recollect transpire never of what once delirium skull breathless overture fathom none as gone ever silenteeism stricken from what book laughter shred flowers scatter upon what corpse of light endless charity solder eye removal trace wind return scar upon scar of elixir absence vacant absolute char wind will of breach distance never once edge until caress blade where once stasis colours endless redeem hand surrogate bloodless breath shard intake shadow form hand brace lapse upon cloud shadow upon facial surface eye alone it to forage lock stillness abort fragratory effervescence colloidal lack to taste it will nothing of to recoil it ever unto of slipstream nectar hollow orchid teasement claps hand solace meat what once night’s edge echo din were null froze outcry irredeem collects bone silences over of until drag salient a-grin noose of teeth elected to obscure it laughter long concrete shadowing de Chirico stillness haven spilled milk a-cry nothing of matter shard within catararact blind edge season promise neither of what till all while it of nothing as before what claim of which distance trace reclamation absent force resurgent ever into/ unto/ collision redeem sudden spectrum glint ablaze of vertigo sharpened slash of light-mark upon distill of vacancy eye roll to of back recollect observes spoke then whisper trace of long bled final where to never for the of nor which to spell it all out graven of neither of where once before travail as if to murmur all what fall down/ all what fall down unto/ nothing ever/ when hour is done/ & the silence is no more…

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'nothing ever' 23/01/21

Very pleased to announce the release of my most recent collection of experimental prose poetics, sections of  which were previously published, with thanks, @ BlazeVox, Ex-Peri, SelfFuck, Ragged Lion Journal, et al.  

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