Sunday 30 December 2018




It is acrid language

‘…The explosion
is for all of us and I dedicate the results
to the fish of the sea and the purity of
language:’     (‘The Western Gate’, J.H.Prynne.)


About to jump off the end of the year
Like an ice berg
There is more of us under the water
Waiting hoping
Feeling each movement
So much discarded
People, papers strewn
In a refracted mirror the truth 
Can be seen with a sidewise glance
Hanging on to the overhang
Knuckles white protruding
The slow merry-go-round
Of unified memory
Attached to the spurs breaking of
Colossal white crashing in
They love you so much they want to devour you
To crush your spirit
In this way we combine the invisible with the
Actual
Ghosts’ are now officially real
And that squadron of green parakeets that
Careened in off the back of a gust
Will tell you so
You don’t go back
To find you’ve lost
‘the thigh bone of the world’
In sleeping torrents of blue familiar night
Right here in the last lost limbic days
Between and sky 
Between stars and home
Behind the faces that march up and down
Oxford street in all weathers
And the pints that pour like so much steady rain
Or lost rivers
Swimmers plant themselves on the edge
Only frosting out for a quick dip
A shoot em up time
Frayed at the edge of an end
Snatching up at the start
Buildings stained in frozen bas relief 
Hands gesture at people moving off
It’s the closure

Friday 21 December 2018





Supreme being amounts to nothing
Peddle harder it will amount
To nothing more than
Fox holes
Underground warrens
Your being set in motion set in time
Where was I today
In yesterday’s time mill
Churned on its spokes
I thought
We cannot be still
Here among the wood chippings, the discarded cans that say Zwiec and Tyske
To frozen feet.
“in the call of conscience what is that is talked about”
Do not answer that question
The answer may lie hidden somewhere in the wrecked pale light
The freezing pond surrounded by silver birch trees
The truest colour of my despair
Silver
Is a dog response to it
Those retractable leads forwards and back lead
Tea time thoughts to distract at a fern 
Near the coffee hut
A latter day Todnauberg

Friday 14 December 2018




Hot whisky sweats the minds depleted reserves force fact into fiction
On and on on into an infinity of ultimate regression
Boring bed bugs bite back hardest on bitter memories
Of skanking down late-night dreams of oblivions that
Ended in stomach ache and worse
Frosted winters that flowed across years
Rain slaked London town always out of reach but right there
Did we take advantage
No

Can we talk about it? Sure, spill your guts
Until it hurts like hot cancerous pangs of unfettered waste burning in the minds centre 
Wherever the fuck that is of course 
You know.
Come into the house of whisky its warm you can slake your thirst
Blow your cares away take a chill of those bones those winter bones
That cold Icey blast that frost is way flinging itself up Camden rd. road then forks out one strand down 
Seven sisters the other up the arsehole of manor house, nothing to be gained in each direction I can guarantee you that.

Up the shitter guaranteed big hitter 
Melt-face boards the love place a sanctified lea valley cruiser that never saw better days
Leverage after one too many in the anchor and hope
Soap up and lather down
Skittering blowholes and fulsome dub architects are flown in from Greece and Spain
All anarchistas to a man boy girl wh`tever
It’s the same up and down the strip now
Barely floating hammocks of junk slung together with rough twine
And the sort of bonhomie that saw through the Russian gulag winters
Freely improvise and self-standing flat pack turgid domain name interval winter vale
It’s a rum kind of poetry rough shod and cloven hoofed that blows in on the wind like that
Never enough to really melt a hole in the universe 
Take some mending to get it up this time


Spooks peak out from behind the hoardings 
They know what blows through the ghost hole
Pre-bored indemnity whispered from a loop hole
In time continuum
Trade winds culminate Elizabethan spectre regained strength but looking older than her years



Don’t let the chaos in sound it out stand firm against it push back
Against its mighty weight 

Reach back in the dark grab a hold on something there to remind you
Of gardens tranquil before darkness

Don’t let chaos reign clean out the gutters with a fine fresh spray
Remove to a higher point to observe then

Fall back down to your knees no pleading this time just
Don’t let the chaos in even though
You feel the wheels rolling heaving breathing all over what’s left of this mystery
Don’t let it burn up what’s been taken 
The breathing in and out of years the lives moving in and out of the frame
Stand firm against the obfuscation on the radar observes its movement 
Track it dodge it 
It can’t be capture tamed its alive out there in you 
It moves through walls it sees time
Remove yourself don’t let it in 
Climb if necessary and implement full colossal refusal
And only recognise the heart burst wonderment of ecstatic contemplation that falls like 
Children laughing into your arms real yes this is real and they belong to you.
In chaos gardens of black infinity
No flowers grow only die here growing into
Distended tumours floating in the heavy air 
In this walled garden old flowers grow black and wither
Jump the growth ebbing edging ending in
Hallucinations gnashing of teeth tears sweat holograms of pain



Just because it will be then as it is now and on and on
Light beams stalk down and touch 
Origins the ghost-work 
Mad glimmerings rain forced shy 

What is a horoscope? How does it quantify your pain?
Spread out your mind over a star map
Stretch its edges to the edge
Still face down in the mud there you lay
Giggling that time is a tumour and fancy this 
tumulus crumbles 
Beneath layers of sedimentary work the 
rock faces dissolves
Take  heed take heed slow your speed
Inclined to rain this season 
It looks 
Hopeless 
“The call comes from me and yet beyond me”

Life in the fast lane
Lived by wits on limbless body without organs
To wit
To woo
Coax them into a shiny gas world 
Smart black loafers attract
Bonhomie this season
You know those grease stains you’ve seen them they are real
And that sweat attractor you roped in to help us forget
Now where has she got to?
Because, and I’m able to say this now, I’m not understanding
You
Better to pore the meltwater over its head
Interminable yes interminable ranges
Sloth like despite 
The army outside the door in realms of thought in space 
They possess you
Green corridors out of the N16 swamp turmoil
It has been arranged and you would hardly notice it
Grey crumble additions 
To swathes of meteor shower discs that hold on
Approach the info war with resigned consternation that
From now on you will be out f step forever
Liken it to the algal growths below the surface
And a toad eyed creature that is undefinable yet creeps to the fore
Whenever this frost fayre abates long enough
For a celebration to breach the banks.