Jill Jones
Andrew
Burke
Jen Crawford
MTC Cronin
Del Ray Cross
Laurie Duggan
kari edwards
Michael Farrell
William Fox
Angela Gardner
Kristin Hannaford
Jill Jones
Jayne Fenton Keane
S.K. Kelen
John Leonard
Anthony Lynch
Aoife Mannix
Chris Mansell
Heather Matthew
Peter Minter
Brendan Ryan
Jaya Savige
Gerald Schwartz
Lawrence Upton
Les Wicks
Tim Yu
Temporal
hard-up on nothingness with my unloved notebooks
tokens, desert island discs, my biblio stigma
fallible, leafy, not-knowing, stretched
my seminal despair grinding my breath
diffusion into my colloquial bloodstream
my minstrel nerve twists in the yarn of the dice
bold and alone, my feverish sympathy
fits my flame to a dialect, foreshadowing pain
mossy, leisurely, invented on nothingness
scanning for balm, to be cured of limiting
glamour and ruin, anima and loathing
they are all chilly tongues
self-knotting baulks at this half-baked fervour
what is intrinsic is now annotation
redress is lethal
its traps are fertile, poised, a dangerous emerald
my alpha virgin glosses her nest of boxes
moonlight churches watch for ignited ardour
prodigious spices and drunk tapestries
reversing on the sacred measureless nothing
Shanti:e
rivers past rails/rolled
delta to sea strophes
corded weeds and shadow
wave keening flower plumes
on domes in extremity
lithe sextants courting limits
down walls and ribbon rain
colour lights/crashed bruise
salt swale and kiss
you held the blows thunder
spilt gulf in the main
latitudes splinter harvest
rock is part/under
scattered by bells
rock gain risen come
Taunting forms
Why that taunting
of a form that limps
to the top of the hill
feathered and turning
on itself
while surroundings adhere
in spirit? Undulations
break on me
foam, a line of wings
shores still wanting
an edge, breathed
moment
however it is
what corresponds.
Maybe stone
for the darkness
the mass, then flame
a choking star.
