forthcoming from Incunabula Media
(Incunabula Media 2025), now available via the link, along with a number of other more recent titles by me. The book also contains fine imagery by DM Mitchell:
https://incunabulamedia.com/michael-mcaloran
'burnt oceanic' #poetry 42pp which includes illustrations by DM Mitchell
'lightless pageantries', my new collection of poems, 84pp, available from creative writing department
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known
what spoke
till drift
blood turn closure ask
it turn
out from which
closer still
dead shadows of where excavation
desire of where
nothing
to be
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crack of breath eager to expel the light
of burn it-closure no
nothing amber lock walled workage bone
reclusion edge
from pit till cleanse
dream in of next of weight reduct
at echo's edge
turn of what closure tongue
coil of the within coil
adrift in cognisant
breakage
lacerate of sound expose
till the bit of lock it-turn
ever of till
nothing of the ever what
before
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as dream till known where the edge of follow
till cut of flesh take from drift
it-lapse
shadowplay
till foreign absenteeism claim of which
nothing of the ask of it
froze what tongue till broke
echo-din
silence recollection
as were once
where once
fallen forage night
asked of in the
end
which has never once
begun
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...scarred without longing/ there’ll be the
stasis of it the hearse of the ever-laughter spun lest from out of darkened/
choke/ dead space and an empty pageant’s shadow…
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…sick try for the waken. call cards no
flowering sight. stay ashore. breathe pageant mock sun light froze closure eye.
all still what lessen echo. sky-fold origami azure. (repeat)...
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...rock back forth neither gesture silent
hands all foreign. abort free lock hold bespeech climb no vertebrae silence
will what no do. penchant forget. ask it pane it. no sound just as be should. belive.
believe. cannot recollect of how or what for either matters/ no...
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...till live take up thy bones & rot as
circus growth indigenous colours bland faith accord. nothing of the matter of
asphyxiate cold shoulder treble tremor sky alone blessed what till mark take up
thy live thy ocular concede...
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...turning towards where the fragrance lies
there is no torrent of applause in the intrinsic silence burn desire of (-ing-)
burn of in all sanguine repertoire irrepair collective fine line given drunk
close door forget foreshadow longing laughter. ever-breakage...
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...as too soon the door ajar & the jaded
shadow shed left behind as if to breathe of it were to of in an elixir of
vanquished the night no further step once two/ step not once...
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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
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
22…
…infarctus decibel of lung-snag between skull and membrane
…lightless unlock/ shadow of the un-face
…not a sound
…deathed all to the prism pillage
…ice-black/ silence of an evacuated room +1
…disease writhe spinal spasm ejaculate of teeth words careening over the edge into some oceanic vault
…the landscape of the body falls away
…time’s vitreous chamber bites with all the regality of the none
…all for
…as if to
…empty echo/ echo/ echoing fading unto ever-clear
…distillation of soundless space/ still yet the thrum of pulse in the skull in the vibrant loins
…bites the limbs what shadows
…in a regalia of buthery/ of a meat hook glint the banality of hope ever-resurgent/ autopsy/ eviscerated light
…(bites because it cannot/ helm/ sudden to the reduction to ash)
…in the black light/ the pulse is disheveled
…nocturne’s exposed glands and expulsion of synergetic waste throughout the coil of mortal spine
…(eats because it…)
…not a trace
…expired hands driven unto foreign by the sun’s stale light
…chasm shock of blood/ …
…silence re-gathered in the parched throat
…“A prayer is in order, your Lord, your Worship”
…'I love you like we shit...'*
*(Georges Bataille)
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'The smell in here, hangs like a killer, hangs like a dead man, and I can’t take another day...'
(--David Yow (The Jesus Lizard-SDBJ))
…fresh meat of the unsung black light/ birth-ed suffocate/ exile
…stench room of obliterate/ of discarded syringes burning in a lapsing flame
…the broke bone bodies of the mind
…alcoholically spitting out the teeth from a wired jaw/ its seals unbroken laughter of the shadowless breathe
…asks yet/ distill/ hangs yes/ another day ‘I’ cannot
…fevered the collapse of entity into grave filled with children’s teeth and rusty scalpels/ (as if to…)/ exhales
…the smell of you/ recollect/ a/ dead/ and the brutal flesh
…evidently hung for far too of the obsolete/ the wilting blood/ dense/ echo
…vibratory
…hangs like a killer unknown…(sick…drunk…blow…job)
…a sinew’s noose/ contracted the pupil grazes upon/ roving of the eye unsleeping in vacant lots of bound bones and acrid sentiment
…it hangs in here/ whispers emanate/ copulating shadows sprayed upon bare white walls/ repeat/ repeat again
…laughterling of pulse/ ocular the surrogate smear
…blood tastes like any other
…the silence weighs/ hangs/ garroted tide of exist/ a swollen tongue in throat a kiss of some obscene pageantry
…‘And I can’t take another day…’
…they sway like the memory of nothing come to pass/ never engrained/ ever the return to
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…of the suicide of the/ the fashioning of stone meat
…regressive fingers rub ink in wounds to mark the non-existent trilogy of static grace in the haven of
…blind white asp of sanguine deformation
…echoes canyons/ ablaze the forests of desire’s breathing of the ilk sweat of the brow the taste of
…X. +1
…zero approximation
…null/ void/ in an excess of none
…gutted as of some prostitute be it male or female/ cast off/ the weight of sex devoured
…bankrupt tide
…meat from which
…’I smoke it down to the filter, and put it out on your hand.’*
…fist in/ orifice of/ there is electric there is blind light and the black pitch of it enshrouding
…(first glance says obsolete)
…spinal excavations in the drunk fuck night of nothing less or more than given haste of the breath lapse what depth stained white sheets
…all spun together with the glue of god
…(lapse)
…impress of lime upon the wound raw white blood of the occult silence between one distance and another
…(as if to say)
…walls and the penetrative shadows
…the death of
…there is absence/ there is hell
(.what resonates is the sound of zero cracking apart.)
(...of the no nothing of/ unspoken of through which or/ no not of a/ of the eye no merely nullified/ unto erased through procession bled/ closed in upon as if it/ in stagnate of/ asks of the nothing more/ no nothing more of/ no not following on from ever-nothing ever of/ solace forgotten in ashen cast upon bankrupt earth design/ a sky rendered absent of colourings/ yet settlement of/ through black light sharp discard of all unto hollow in or on or from/ the acrid reek of the un-saying/ dreamed thin/ exposed...)
(...no not of/ of the no further ever asking of/ other than as if it/ voice what voice/ no nothing of a/ if/ nothing of/ extinguished eye obsolete/ as if to have ever-having other than/ blind witnessed blinded other than/ in/ of/ another/ another/ as if it were/ could be/ silent all the while/ nothing still yet solvent/ in mark as if to/ seizure collapse of/ if no/ sung seizure embalm/ upon bankrupt/ yes/ no/ yes or no/ recoil/ another/ another/ recoil of absent traces...)
(...asks no further into or or if/ (‘regards to the...’)/ astray in hand/ shaft-black hollow/ ask what matter/ none/ no further into if/ echo-echo absent now/ returns thin words that dissipate of/ no voice/ vacant spaces nothing/ the imprint erased in silenteeism/ delible collapse yet silence ever-decibel/ nothing no longer recognition through/ or of/ in/ no further traces/ distances yet no/ all distance yes forgotten/ origin forgotten/ blind traces/ forgotten realms...)
(...in lapse non-lapse/ utterance collapse rescind relapse expel undone/ silence silence knock upon absent no longer the vapours of it/ burned clear/ not a sound merely simulacrum/ rot sound upon decay no longer the/ in/ absent blindwhite no static yes no dark’s reclamation of/ the voice devoured/ remnants cast/ yet untraced returning as if to/ lock unto premise/ premise no no longer given axial suffocate of final word/ what is/ ever if in now/...)
(...viewed from the lack of/ or vantage point of disappearing spaces/ of the blood spent in/ expelled by/ in view of/ naught of/ the lie the dream’s eradicate/ words no more than traces of a silent realm/ in-dream yet of a sun long foreign/ walls upon in given laughter tidal final/ beyond sight or/ wilting echoing out into the nothing claiming all/ spitting out the/ silenced by the nullity of...)
(...from in eye of suspend/ of the vocal attribute snuffed/ silenced respond of a silent response/ no longer other/ demise what yet of/ in/ structure fragment structure fade into/ done with long done it cannot be vocalised/ (‘perhaps the stripped skin of animal a-breathe/ raw embers upon’)/ no nothing of it/ no glimpse in that and so back to endless silent/ blind cataract of breathe/ spill upon/ ever unto/ negated/...)
(...bleak yes or no the word(less)/ out where there the word bleak yes the/ yet silenced/ no nothing more of the trail from absent/ the absent from/ erasure of/ lights fragments a clear film of shadowing/ in the whisper as if to unto for/ if the whisper were as if/ unto/ wall of sky a backdrop of final nothing/ lights fragments deemed as if there were/ vocalised/ and yet unsung/ the collapsed voice/ the/ uttering none of all/...)
(...the voice seeks distances beyond/ else/ which/ stray bite upon absent air/ the subject shears it has no image collective/ recollect/ impales the eye/ eye recoils into the silence/ echoing out from yet it clasps the severed light cast upon through denuded eye upon/ through absent definition/ mere sound and the breath’s recoil from out of which/ the voice seeks blindly/ the words of which fail/...)
(...of the bite it is the/ stone lack/ fades from out of design/ grasps yet from point of which/ fails dry speech of/ retort of/ unto/ voice no/ clamour yes/ bite a-breathe of seek what matter/ nothing more vast nor detached than if/ as if/ what matter if/ subtle/ violent/ inept/ spills from the lung of speech rot through of bountiless eye’s lock/ drift what clear/ in severance tidal/ bled out...)
(...in ocular roving of in-speech/ of speech retract/ buckles under no not of/ emptily/ piss upon final embers/ as if to enflame no not/ breath aligned no not of/ in/ or of/ of the fragments of till waste/ spoken/ burnt black/ clear as liquid undefined/ in the face of/ what this/ of this/ trace yes or no/ sunk judder of cerebrum recoil/ eye/ un-eye in the darkness/ rummaging finding only further/ dead zone/ unquantify/...)
'echonone' is available from Incunabula Media
…bone bite snare is a post-Beckettian series of fragmented yet interactive experimental prose poetic texts. It stammers, glides & bludgeons its processes through landscapes & visions lacking either redemption or hope. A hallucinatory cavalcade where linguistics are warped & erased in frenzied, vibration tones of lacerated subject & abject, textual bodily eviscerations & evacuations. This is endworld writing feeding at the jugular to the point of abort, decimating lights, cold cut, breakage bone, snare feed bitten thrice shyer than what hold of dust clogged veins a pissoir, a vantage point erase…
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"In bone bite snare, the jagged necrotextures of poetics are not only anatomically exposed but let of fluids through a cosmically conscientious mechanism not dissimilar to Pollock's 'drip technique'. This raw performance of a past and predetermined doom is here recorded and thus made infinite in its recurrence."
-- Elytron Frass
“this,is neonoir,a new kind of nihilism,where even the language,even if highly poetic,cannot be attested to certainty or absolutism or essentiality. everything is loose now,shifted loose by geodesic and societal schisms and shiftings. it really is the endworld,now with the appropriate acuitry sketched in a language befitted to mimic thefragments,the inconclusiveness,the w/hole.”
-- Aad de Gids
"In his texts Michael Mc Aloran curates [the impossibility of representationalism anymore], the last esthetic mirrorings of these wastelands through which we wade, in bleak necessity, in machinationmechanistical catatony, our arts following sinister paths to follow the porncinema our world has become. The paradox is, and it also isn't a paradox anymore, that Mc Aloran conceives this inexplicable, indiscernable cryptolinguistic curating [holidayjob] documenting in exactitude that it is no longer possible to follow these worlds of the world like we sit on top of it but we're deeply indebted to as well as prey to its capriciocity and haunting presentism. The world over us that is, and Mc Aloran bears witness to exactly this precarious position, point, to which all end-arts and anti-estheticisms must dwell, finally, in unironic splendour of a glitzing decay."
-- Chyna Blac
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…in-stricken of/ from out of/ through (the) dead light
breath broken valves of night nowhere left to follow(s)/ onwardly dissipated
silenced as closure eye redempt of none/ a bitter sting a foreign lapse
space-lack devour/ else what/ of some besiege scuttling of dead ice-blind
absence/ shadowy nocturne/ frozen azure given to expire/ it-bitten cold weight
settling in (the) warped bones (the) nothing of/ sensed of/ electrical vibrate
given to flourish in severed collage of breath’s restless to become or other
than/ (it must lest it commence)/ sharp stung eye lie/ bitter some aftertaste
eviscerated lack of tearing limb from limbs from foreign else/ non-speech
resolve premise sudden to expire scattered teeth blossoming into nothing ever
other than/ skulled lest of stone ache fractures silences of/ shadow of all/
breath unto yet or of or in until/ in-stricken of blind weight/ traceless as/
in depth to end/ of (the) exhale of null/ (the) suffocate of all throughout/
echo/ echoing out…
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…abject design in a collision of subtle membrane/ skinned one thousand dreams sarcophagus of light breaking forth into open visceral nights/ long echo-desire/ here there or hereafter/ some door to close (the) room to/ follow endless/ an unmarked grave of silences given to taste severed stricken a-breathe spoke stone division endless ever as if to detrace/ trace/ retrace following on from gathered onward/ eye lights it is un-skied to hilt drop sheen reflect non-speech vocal as collapse stillness to gather in parched throat/ blood to taste gathering in (the) infant bones and sacral knowledge of scattered dead flies/ perhaps seeds to bleed unto having bled escapade eye of blood fragment all traced from nucleus given to shadowing/ it yet it is bitter yet a whipped canine’s tears satiate breathing no more than phlegm spat in the face of desire’s shadowing occluded simulacrum/ terse between one shadow/ not a trace nor given unto/ as if to…
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…eye-skies with (the) little/ shod black stung-lapse of/ in/ ever of/ collapse in-dread forage null till bone shatter bruised bloody fleshed veranda give or taken silenced/ absence of/ till colour-claim effortlessly designed desire for (the) one thing seeking vengeance tones/ lock-trace/ a caress/ sheared skull blessed a relapse nothing given nor taken it/ out-stretched wings a kiss of cold sands where no sun is birthed/ funereal tide/ dead what once/ fades out once more in paradigm of shit/ dread lock once forgotte (the) broken body of signature/ slashed wrists here now a sanguine trace recollects/ (in night to trust)/ onwardly says (the) naught/ din of cold closure a doorway dragged from listless tidal as/ oxygenate of nothing ever some lapse or another’s claim/ breeds pageantry silences working till hollow tint a painted trace/ outro/ (steps once diameter ever no motion beyond)/ peeling final from stricken blood/ ice in (the) veins/ eye spied…
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...nowhere is to be of this in this of nothing ever merely
naught counts it out shadow upon where from what matter all traces have erase
denounce cast off useless detritus collision with no not on a spillage of null
where night is ever-lack lack motion of forgiven trace without form broken
emblems sieve of purpose what collect as of a faggot of bound limbs skinned of
purpose where of not on no nothing of through breach it said all done
non-speech non-claim echo echo broke absurd clamour of din light burn into
where whisper claims where depth devours yet depth what depth colour to claim
some seek of purpose a crack of sky alone cataract of nothing next to have
nothing of in reveal of sudden as if to expire it is not going anywhere other
than it ever of in of where of in ever if what if or ever none what in of ever
before a butcher blade cold chase of slaughter night of long knives as if to
say that broken as in which no not of ever of unto having commence yet nowhere
ever on what spoken said without lack stillness dread of come day neither night
of savior promise of reflect upon having been nowhere in nothing on no never
collapse into where of taken from having been in paralysis where on is none or
no traceless as have if as of no not a where walls disintegrate transparency of
all in recollect of faint trace spill it out of it out nothing ever of...
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...on it laughter unto nowhere be unto nowhere have of been
unto where of in now then what for after-long forgotten cold shadow neither
left nor right merely fall asunder stray ask asks of it collapse into thy dread
a dream a fragment as if to momentary of relapse sudden as if to expire drag of
none & asp denounce till take of nothing for sustenance breath lapse weight
vapor tone stray astray choke upon word/s unform where prayer for broke speech
clamor of rat throughout a given onslaught of terse wind what a scent of blood
stricken head of vast of miniscule breathless denounce collision depth hard
cold shoulder of nowhere on a-lapse till vacuous expel through erasure of knock
from frozen blood of no whereof to serve in hyenic pelt a nestle of bone to sickness
have of some have-not slowly to break throughout tread back-step in yet nothing
ever of as if to once dry eyes there or other of nothing on in none of fragment
insert nowhere on throughout where only if in progress is to demise through
blood sick light echo drain where once was of stricken from disease of what
what dis-ease till lapse unto murmurs from dead silences lack & desire
where shadow breathes it lung into agape open up of wound agaze into as if to
ever of in foreign fragment of scattered through of once of only of never of
forgotten of in where what of some ever of as merely if...
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...bound blackened meat of some effortless fragrant of
whereof dusted realms coat some expose smear by design of which whereof strip
of what of echoflesh nothing ever scatters dawn light across what of what
wishful nocturne to become impenetrable night all...
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...agape choke upon stone tongue close of eye as if to have ever null & vacant observe shadow of breath cull of dead what what opulent shit in veins flung unto canine jaws (sicken) unto breath what speech what echo as if to spill it all out knock of some thrice design nectar laughter teasement of reek a corridor of none what of through ever closure of seclusion stasis & if in which taken from none closure of wound seared shut nowhere on into nothing ever in yet exile of forgotten forgets it ever-stitch what claim/ until...
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...clears throat what echo-still of breach forgotten a silence of nullity tear of lack from limb lack expel what nothing having ever whereof colour claim as if to have of ever-in solace of devour colour tidal noose bite deep come collide with depth no answer have of given to stretch eaten of till bones exposed nothing of some dusk foreign lapse of view taken from where cast upon eye lapse into from out of sudden to expire recede into where none of some struck out blood to taste a reek of atrophic cheer drag out where sky of night bear down upon eye recall have or have not ever-shadow of cold dead teeth in laughter echo adrift of spastic abort of spastic spasm whole as if to where nowhere breathe upon given to gift what further of no not some on where nothing in of which is some dreaming else of in-dream cut short where sinew taste waste attrition fall to none what parry to aside nothing said have of ever if through which cold depth no nowhere of in on it was said scatter of poison seeds & desolate no nothing of having if in through which foreign storm of occlude(ed) piss upon flowerate knowing nothing of where pageant grows it does not refutes till breakage of never once all drought fallen from as if to say that what once was once will never rupture callous in of of weight stretching out some vellum tide a bitter terse a lock a wither of hand spillage of some unquantifiable liquid neither blood nor cum nor as on into whereof forgotten in an instance breath where fingers ache & warp throughout skies upheaval of mesh strip skin headless abort closure of some nothing ever no not a...
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…asks of…ever of
the bind-breathe…fallen unto measure of…spat out the wings of long forgotten
else…night for blood & a…cold depth of denuded all stepped alone…breakage
nullity of herein where not of a in or of nor nothing be…strip solace…broken
bones scattered across rotting floorboards…dense will end rising up to
splendour eye’s disregard…a sentence a frenzy of…turns into cannot other than
where to have neither of the held close the door…bathes in the eclipse of
meat…hyenic/ the blood to flow…effortlessly consumed …where traceless of what
in of/of the desire for the garotte…spoken of through silence break/ shrift…the
shattered teeth of exodus & the laughter of echoing in the core of
breath…reflexive…taint without longing breakage colours of all spoken
for…silence as if there were any other than where to sever/no/a ghost-limb
fallen silt…passes through one surface unto another…till trace forgotten never
of the spe/cial bound by walls constructed of…glass works & the snare of
teeth breakage valve of purposeless driven by the desire to final…laconic…no
nothing of that yet of the disappearance of yes what matter as if to choke
unspoken…dead as…rip of flesh in an outcry of blood & meat…the vocal of it sounds
out from out of severance…nothing of the matter a taste of for it forgotten
erasure pageant depth kisses of the forgotten…the null light permeate…there go
the fingers useless implements…flung to the dogs of…as all that be was never
once…neither from the outset nor the outset other than…plumes of…reflections
of…nothing…of…
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…cold reflect of blood shed where to…genuflect of some final reaching for…slap to the face begins again…having forgotten cannot…it-surface of blind light reflect of null that cannot…broken glass rupture through which it can or only through the eyes of the silence broken only by…torn to shreds in bask of territory…spitting out the shit force-fed it can only…never yet as…tension light arrested flesh the body broken entity of nothing ever in where trace of languish collapses into foreign…taste waste attrition…bone dice a winter pageant…the roots reach for the nothingness as if else were to be of any…spit tongue lapse…dense accord…there is laughter yet no more…begins again false promise remembers…rat reflect…rat from out of which…keener the eye of some ballast a frozen fragment …dense what will in salve no nothing of the blood…froze light breathe…black casket room of nowhere out as if there ever could have been…spills of entrails from eviscerate a soundless speech neither the speechless nor the following after…hyenic the blood continue to flow until…bled out…nothing of it black polka soundless penetration vibrate of…sees eye see…not a…nothing for this… nothing of that or…ever of the taste of shit in the mouth in the reek of fumes arising from the virgin sands freshly placed before in any given hourglass…as kicked from once of one throughout kicked from one until what of in ever till…as the bleed of which is ever the closure wound non-viable…all as sung through a talus closure of the bloom of razor discharge cascade of breathless speech of the words that never could…
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…zero breath of the hands outstretched
reaching for the…rat is the sequence pulse it does not sleep…devours the film
of else upon the eye given that the…scab form depth of surface skin & the
stitch-mark colouring…it done desire of the space between the shadow &
the…null vacancy of final ever throughout as passage until no nothing of the
desire what hence cleft of the silence within silence reverberate…sunk slow
what if…breaking upon where bones flow sanguine absently caressed by the lapse
of ever…till dense all song…night what of it…tears away the skin of promise to
writhe in the shit of being of it…in it…mark what trace till
obsolete…annihilate of all but never of in through which of the bereft silence
never having uttered once than ever of till foreign…till closure no…the flesh
warps in upon itself cold shadow longing spread across the body vocal…night is
what shadow left behind for nothing of as if to see it…till cast aside in the
absent region of where nothing of…dig deep…stone harvest…lest to flow as on it
into which a broken jaw a filigree a word a series of cannot without any
measure…lack & all throughout where the pit of which is the solace of the
fucked from the outset promised nothing other than no design was ever…the
broken body vocal smashed to shrapnel as before merely to reclaim that which it
cannot merely broken the vocal of what not listless as before…yet in of which
in spasm lock it-lung closure the tomb of long forgotten…as on with uttering
none…sound cascading into… crack a bone unsung…it sayeth of…terse devour of the
collapse as sheet metal snaps down to taste as the silence bites silently down
upon/upon where trace non-light is the unforgotten…spits it out…
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A revised edition of the 2023 release, 'the once what being', is now available from Incunabula Media . Artwork & design by Dav...