'lightless pageantries', my new collection of poems, 84pp, available from creative writing department
'lightless pageantries', my new collection of poems, 84pp, available from creative writing department
…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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…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…
A revised edition of the 2023 release, 'the once what being', is now available from Incunabula Media . Artwork & design by Dav...