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Issues 1-14

A Contiguous Body

translated from The Seperable Soul, by Elisabeth Bletsoe

 

                                    suction

 

unlike a forgetting of earth

an extra-threadial emulsion

around drops, without ululation

 

a lightness of presence

of nonsense explicit beyond

 

                                    those full densities

 

writing me out

writing around the curves

expelling large eases of alienation that

            smooth forward

to the received past sham-static

light-scribbles gouging a depth unlike

            the realities of birds

 

your exteroceptors static with

miniscule mechanical stick

            up a sea,

 

landslips of seen darkening;

stay in vulcanic if-ness over where

you languish from concealing my upperpoems

            outside all lines,

                                    bracts;

 

to bury my Morse that

            you blinded as

over-reading the adjunct apse, that

fingerprint of a resurrected hut,

            a skyflower pasture

“chequered with stony humans

            projecting

the golden & striped emission

                                    to below”

 

gauzes of illumined phonemes

that dissolve you from a venue near

normal & healing releases

            crystallise from

                                    coherence

icons not like lines destroyed by dippers on mud

 

 

ignoring the sham-sheens of that

            frigidity

                        (the bolt on an occipital)

a glib sugaring of scars

 

without every ululation you mouthed

you were ending more a beast

            I realised

the first obituary broken

above my meat:

 

not as you had stayed with my heart before the right locale

 

not as your liver so high as a certainty was dying in your flank

 

not as you are on a peak of knowledge

 

not as the nearness would be involved with beyond solid and sold

 

not as your abdomen is empty of saliva

 

not as your void is quickly contracting

 

not as here now a desire for a dark hut to forget when we were not

 

not as the ninth moon is hitting and you lose it in the top of the door

 

not as a dark line downward closed your arse; the scurf of new digital images ejaculating upwards

 

not as off my relinquished I imagine deafness to cries in the currents

 

not as you are so surrounded I can’t have crawled out from the sea

 

not as stone vomits darkness

 

not as the dispersed joy diffused through a pelvis

 

not as the darkness is turned on where you were all the way down steps

 

not as you were set free beyond black leaves

 

not as there’s nothing renting your trachea like quartz

 

not as some water has thirteen surfaces

 

not as your arse numb cold as a lizard with high blood pressure

 

not as an orgasm deformed on your gaze in a snout’s frame

 

not as you are to end a body-voyage of one and a thousand nights

 

not as when scraping the floor black a funeral numbed like marriage

 

not as the sun knows the allotrope chaos of sentience

 

not as your bloody rags are covering a small clot of cream

 

not as an adult with sunken pupils easily regurgitating through its snout

 

not as you had made an embryo under your foot; a huge black lizard attached to a placenta, breathless

 

not as that fresh pool tongued by ululations you are keen to translate

 

not as the reality fattening on wormwood among Russian rich

 

not as you were gluing together a fish separated at its head

 

not as an anastigmatic cluster drilling into your left sole

 

not as there is a fixed cypher beyond the top of a skull

 

not as black discharge spurted from two earholes

 

not as a single glue deformed on the low line of the tongue

 

not as an androcentric anthracite coating a ruby

 

not as you fell asleep the swish of skin beyond your arms

 

not as you are standing under outstretched legs

 

homing out from a perfect place

as easterly plains of foliation devolve

            lines of expansion

my page-giving occupied you

in flux under a length of the dialogue

to where you then conver(g)(s)ed an

                        ululation

tickles of dark constructing

the valley of Oolitic doors

            twice deformed on turbid depths

 

enjoying erosion; a pestling

            become banal

garbage given out by an

underdirt of doldrum-slackening

ocean faux pas

discovering/recovering your

                        spirituality

before a shore slides swiftly

            under your other

green & white flint, treasures, siliconised

                        agate

 

genetic marker of stasis

the momentary county of mutation formation

soliloquy briefly delivered

            but forever growled

rubbing part words

on the floor of your vagina without

                        your lips

dulling under generalisations that

I without will read & shout:

 

a reverse projection of a pit seepage

            evaporating

from a precipice of mist along grass-lengths,

a sinking root peeled

from a turbulence of water,

attack-stakes of large flagged estates;

 

a steadfastness of an occluded cosmos

 

your jail blood rotting

(it’s said thrice)

a freshness embossed on

                            a fake sea

 

one being swerving from emulsion

 

“huge crescent headlands of pebbles, lemonrock blocks

            carapaces &

                        a lot of mud’’

 

a dull prima materia becoming

 

 

 

 

 

Priestexhume rookery, Mallet and The Squadron

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright © Mark Goodwin, 2008