11th May 2022
after John James
to love the same records drinking
the shade of dress
life is wearing
it’s almost like this deliberate
vagueness, dreamlike in the detail
the fantasy when form breaks down
Rain across the valley blurs the air from my Hollingdean window
down the sparrows, cruel rain
settled: the language of contract.
Provided the rain stops
may I meet you in the hotel with
yellow borders, green shutters, lay
down at leisure, piss each other off.
25th May 2022
Death Note
after César Vallejo, William Rowe, Sean Bonney
& NH Prichard
i.
‘the corpse, ay! went on’ working
reanimation
refusal
out of the body
the soul got up
The Combatant. The Man. The Corpse.
‘what they have in common
is zero’. No names. The multiplication
describes the dead: ‘All the inhabitants
of the earth’,
what they have in common
ii.
Circular cutting device
chainlink. Mutual blur
there’s something there
walking by the certain graves stone
angel two children running ahead
vanish into silence
across the valley
the signs the mind a high pitched noise.
iii.
At the window the valley is cut
so much more so much
they cannot sleep
and who would
‘there is no outside’, ‘the voice
in the poem is not your friend’
the sound of children playing people
forcibly removed from the earth out
of this world we cannot fall
‘I want to be / pickled like
they picked enemies / alive / in the Wars of the Roses’.
Sparrow hope and bound to despair
love by the angel grieving.
iv.
‘The wrestlyng of this world axith a fall Heer is noon hoom
heer is but wildirnesse.’
and
and
and
‘though bowed the to hoom passed’
passage
passage
