coil turn
the rip of seedless blood &
the ache of exposed actual turning in the rip of
endless
into of in the which non-
known
collective breakage bone severance
the out-step spit into of the once till breathless
churn of white spasm light
blinding the eyeline
the nothing extant
in the blood-turn upturned
silence
return it-of of shadow &
the dregs of speech
given to vocal the absurdly mocked in-turn
specious to claim
whereof
what matter-line/
=
bones from out of which the alone as shadow
turning in depth
accord no
& the pistol-whip of null
cutchel to kill of the rip-speech petals blood’s light cast
upon exposed shit-dream nothing
embers collide
it-known
asked as if one could till redeem till turn white silence
action(ic)
till drag of soiled light across the surface a skyline
the rip of seasonal
cold asked of as if
to shed
as one could
nothing of to the devour/
=
extinction toothen
the raw teeth of mind no
no nothing of in the breakage ambiance
sunlight
sudden as if to devour
drag taste haven recollect in the breathe of absence taste
till of in the
skull of know
ache of closure nothing extend
& the depth
the rip of white blood burning in terror’s claim
it-speak as if one could
cold light
burn of what circus climatise
extent &
the burn of sands beneath bare flesh
churn of which how goes the ache to trust
shadows as if to remark upon
closure depth
what eye/
=
stillness to breach
sickless the
love that out-chase-of-response-closure nothing haven
& the exposed blood known of in the
grit of powdered shadow
the like of which
gunsmoke powder-dust
the blood of nothing harvest of cold meat
it-lock of nothing ever of the null
of the once the
sound of zero turning its silence to the extent of nothing
more
it-spit kill kick it carvage
the obsolete meat
a null & void &
the light that forever recoils to extent it ever of the kiln’s
redeem
a piss-reek of shadow
a broken lock a measurement of desire
traced across the flesh
what/
=
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(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:
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'burnt oceanic' #poetry 42pp which includes illustrations by DM Mitchell
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
=
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
=
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
=
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
=
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
=
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
=
'lightless pageantries', my new collection of poems, 84pp, available from creative writing department
=
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
=
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
=
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
=
'A haunting organic and erotic series of pieces of writing showing maybe a new direction for McAloran's work. The underlying spiri...
