Tuesday, April 23, 2013

counterflarf

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love tomato in high-end supermarkets I've driven 100 miles this is like Disneyland at the wrong time of year in every dazzling a ...

flarf arf

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unnecessary paperwork a man walking found yesterday has taken the top spot the richest person from iron ore one of three having grown ...
Monday, April 08, 2013

switched off indefinitely [some out-Abilene Paradox]

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he sees the lights mutters oh the lights look he says lights ahead lights I know them what they mean there is time he thinks and forgets t...
Friday, April 05, 2013

blue

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black branches on blue first bird already singing from the silhouettes .
Monday, April 01, 2013

rearing cornices of the upshut

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so we're zooming in already your teeth an issue of disarray the snow has cornices, architraves, mouldings ogee/torus/egg and dart/as...

Yes to this

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machine sea (2011)

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ugh a dread from over             the far morbay that blackback fells stark                          into spluts of early birdscold a monste...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

snow

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we drive home in other directions—snow like dead confetti .
Sunday, March 24, 2013

even everything is almost nothing

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so close so almost close so far so the night smothers us all in snow-soft the strings stray minutely and wholly into utter dissonance mak...

cinquain

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I flush the fish away she beats a kettle drum the kids watch the funeral rites struck dumb .

all quiet on the Preston Front

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most vexatiously ill-clad under a car in the snow— Madeleine Shine the waves onshore make no sound their energy displacement stifled—...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

shellfish

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lay it wholly on small ices in preparation let its motions cease splay the members easily though with care not to mark or damage the...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

hands like giant falling sheep

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[the conditions it fakes/faces I am your mother we share the uh mouthhgun the mouthgerm we/my/I are a chronic anaesthetist such ungodly...
Wednesday, March 06, 2013

pretty hues ask after all if drugs are the thing

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few have knelled and known oh the yellow stir what and even more when after all after all and still after and sometimes the belief fara...
Monday, March 04, 2013

the yellow way to Nirvana

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Kurt Cobain's lank hair filled with screams/pixies/trajects all the air all the air around one little girl/boy disputed hello hell...
Friday, February 22, 2013

no way in or out

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there's nothing to it, watch the iron plates of the skull in spasm a core-sample from the inner ear, the sinus a straight line curli...
Friday, January 11, 2013

the wide sneer of motorcycles

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black, lank, cool, the enticing cloud talks across the parklands and wires its shaven participles, its dogs and damage requited briefly b...
Friday, December 28, 2012

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Sunday, December 23, 2012

entropic paradise

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I've been asleep and going back to sleep —Facebook as though it doesn't matter it all happens   she is just gone, down somewhere...
Friday, December 07, 2012

nightlife

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  Was it so hard, Achilles, so very hard to die? Thou knowest and I know not So much the happier I —Patrick Shaw-Stewart start them on t...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

boy gives hug after owl story, speaks of love, complains

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open your mouth when you speak find some kind of love in enunciation or else you just dead wood uh uh hardly here barely alive algorith...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

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ugh a claw in the blood

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ugh a claw in the blood teeth blue with words that will not wait ............................. I also will not wait I will not deliver b...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

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The Triggerfish Critical Review #10 is now available online, featuring lots of excellent poetry and reviews, with astonishing artwork by Jo...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

nothing

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get your coats on boys we are going out looking for nothing . .

deer tracks

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deer tracks through the shrubs all of us looking foolish as the train goes by .

burden

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slumping bookcases oh all those words what a burden .

beck

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beck by the mill silent with all its lost old trollies .

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curtains fly out in the late night winds cold eyes staring .

hard poor corn

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all the night beat down like wet corn black crop circles saying nothing even the owls run out the wind stopped in its tracks flies dro...
Monday, November 12, 2012

stairs from there to here

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of the rising and the going I sing of the nosing and the string our earliest habitations had no such elevations no treads or risers no ...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

a crawling TV active already

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the Chinese dominate baskets ... be surprising a false flag pulled off area 'ie' I wouldn't put flowers in the gun barrel ju...

the hitching stone oct 2012

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look out kid Obama coonskin cap coonskin anyway, Cap these laws made to resist tyranny now diverted into bullying impasse oh oh the pump...

never buy discount time machine mama

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skinny fuck what you like that fer? shoulda seen my as though the clouds had names or some rabbit now ruled the world it's cold all...

the snuffle of a coming future

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if this gets too real please O his dread in that moment is that he will die and leave everything behind the blindness and the yellow fo...

this way, quick

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there's always going away, there's always that when all else sail away like a light bulb that went out in someone's kitchen b...

the cousin wields great standards

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now again the fluted convoluted roundhere of the unworthy house and occupant it is too late I will call you tomorrow your fingers your fi...
Monday, October 29, 2012

fixing the faulty clock

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this early the uncertainty of anything overwritten by memories into a palimpsest of the other but the other other that's not good let...

sure as sisters in black snow

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her sister says be sure her sister says remember what happened befure how you got dismember so this time be pure and the face the face...

blood minor 7th

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this is so exciting blood all across the crash site a thing rising through the bubbles down there for all his talents from the public min...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Berlin

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salvoes of Katyusha before you commit get everything out because Love is like the gates of Berlin .
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

of ten committed hours

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 before he initiates and delivers the desired results I'll keep you all posted we may see a delay in the launch of 10 it is now Mo...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

all of us anyway stink

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jareeb jareeb this is what he says by the pool spare me Douglas do this one time for me we doing Fenni in Goa late night cashew it is d...

holes in everything

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this cheese like all cheese this dressing gown this frown this iron green-grown giant that kicks in the door the sick stuff when it flew a...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

hysteria

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those faltering halting little steps now barely from the lean to the totter from smile to smile if all those days again if all not anothe...

Cardamona

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some pretty pretty poetess sat there upon her round upon a milk-red carpet admirers all around for in such opportunity buffoons will o...

not yet wet

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the wind has changed tonight and all the washing left out left wide open to the rain like windows flapping like intruders against themselves...

line-breaks wah

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I have no intention of writing prose poetry. Blogger has stopped allowing me to use line-breaks. I sort of like the randomness of this form ...

coits after cigarettes

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the holidays are over the holidays are over oh ho oh ho oh woe so known about so known about oh so exposed so thrown about and thrown w...

is or is not the drumming

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wall hanging mandolin selected poems of Lorca brown carpet brown why brown carpet Delta Fit multigym the fab cab dented heater TVTVTVTVTV Va...
Monday, September 17, 2012

all so furred the engines now

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a furred thing half and half of what came next to the wall by the stair well with the grandfather clock this in the ancient carpark a man br...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

big-eyed alien

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sometimes you can fall in love with some of what someone is ick uck wah they say in their place after some time you recognise the phonemes a...

red threads of the animal soul

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had a dog once that collected stamps he had a network of pals all over sent him Magyar Postars and Third Reich rarities used to sit looking ...

a stamp collecting animal

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this Chinese belief that children at birth emanate tiny red threads that go in search of the soulmate of that child.that and this.sometimes ...
Friday, August 10, 2012

The Gnostic Dead In Adoration Of The Lowering Sky-People.

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Friday, August 03, 2012

strange curtains awry

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landscapes leaking through the daylight what new disaster is this? tick tick everything huddled as though uncertain what is here? eider...

loved by no one (to Nick Drake)

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the hole through this huge rock on the moor is inexplicable now who did this? typhus spread here one year many dead memorialised in Kild...
Wednesday, August 01, 2012

now love

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they merge now, but all night these children it's strange how it's more shock than wonder it's almost impossible to be there ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

the much longer low-lighted other end of love (for Sharon)

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[i]may your mind be wide open may your heart lead you on borne by the wonderful[/i] —Tim Booth upon departures a drowned cat a huge purple l...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Buddhism 88mm cannon

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had it with that house round the back voodoo house blocking out the sunset found a Fl ugzeug a bwehr k anone 88mm death machine on eBay...

uh

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pornography will dry your skin will make you cracked and yellow how you doing baby? oh you know I am a wadi starved of rain bats have fi...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Jesus bouncing

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2003 hotel in Glasgow back after the night out down at the bar on whatever street Jesus is wasted naked pissing all over the floor in hi...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

recent changes everything

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France when he made that reply this has led to a massive need for the event the word of god suggests to help you owe virtually so numerous ...
Monday, July 23, 2012

dead cat on road

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says for fuck's ache that is the last time I will listen to this looks at them while they sleep then sets the room on fire jumps out...

the otter's tale

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the only reason he's relevant is he has no real life to write about all head chakra, pneumatics, and nothing below bellow then; wri...
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blue giants

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all over the coverlets pixies are dancing have we woken into a new world so suddenly? look again feel the needles dig into that this i...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

dead lighters flaming

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that human stench I have slept, have woken are they still there, in power has the world changed no one has a dog that they would not kil...

das boot

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oh this life yeah is a U-boat unsure whether to surface you evil and fixed in your hard place four-packs going cheap at the Spar one sque...

a long rope

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that greyness grey thAT the mallards and Canada battleships.on Wednesday Brimham tea at the flux.ice cream at the dancing bear red wall...
Friday, July 20, 2012

children out of the grey-blue

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out of the grey-blue everything changes they just come in one day shove you around threaten to take your children away but no bombs c...

fucking-genes

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genes are now registered intellectual property you will have to apply for a licence to procreate those genes through pregnancy Jesus, i...

difficult and wrong

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it's difficult and wrong to dislike a species but slugs are really bad everything else got fast or slick or fierce to avoid being ...

power-corporation lectures hash 1

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they have no soul to save and no body to incarcerate— Baron Thurlow let's look at it from a different point of view —Noam Chomsky w...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

the biggest breasts in the world-ladder

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the biggest breasts in the world alighted one day on my roof I felt gratified at last as they whoomphed down breaking slates like nothin...

most dinosaurs mirrored larking and stuff

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sometimes your holly-hands your almost ch ch ch like you any got this at secondhand second glance annoyed 358 ugh the death of that ...

submarine fools you never dissolved

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speaking to one's ex-lover one asks how the submarines have been how the garden grows if the dog has yet dissolved into a pool of in...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

ex-pounding

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the shelves beneath my books sag in the middle how we remember at last at last the urgency .
Monday, July 16, 2012

I jouneyed deep in Honduras

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even in the Church in an extreme way the faithful that stalk their city on the road the time you think of a woman still further what ...

utilitarianism (how did you come up with these figures?)

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the supply chains and so on Kant if you put a gun to my head I cannot even for it would be an end unjustified oh we welcome this but Ben...

Mau Mau

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MAU MAU MAU MAU MAU MAU an arguable case .

any of these projects B2rady (at busy times)

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w2here's the money going to come from? a decade/clarity/six minutes/application rejected he joins us go ahea2d our head of studie2s ...

art illery

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'the staggering extent of re-offending by sexual  predators across the country' the most stone-faced of killjoys quarter to seven...

pounding 2

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the borrowed dog chased a neighbour's cat nearly got it this was almost the end of the world in public but overhead a caterpillar di...

pounding

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suddenly the black trains along the line are slugs on a fallen tree as slow .
Sunday, July 15, 2012

The Triggerfish Critical Review

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I interviewed and reviewed the wonderful Laurie Byro, and reviewed David Appelbaum's new chapbbook, Jiggerweed . And there is much besid...

cigarettes

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at dawn even the wind settles back but cigarettes... .

limericks from Hell

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well I'm up for this party in Hell as I've heard that their parties are swell I'll get drunk as a skunk dressed like a mad mo...

violet

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out there, imagine wind in holes across the long moor our hands poised ready to begin your mouth almost dips .
Wednesday, July 04, 2012

god particule

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those people from CERN they think they've found the Higgs Boson strangely Life with little concern somehow goes on .
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Monday, July 02, 2012

underwater robots

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underwater robots have arrived they mooch down there in the green swirl they look at you like this they fasten things and listen they he...

deadlines

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a fashion for examining inequalities just-introduced curves he's unlikely he wanted the forces of reproduction you disagree it...

everything else

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electric flash on the surface water her hand this hand here and this hand there her attention some mediterranean night halfway through t...
Sunday, July 01, 2012

Major Arcanum Minus 1: The Ready to Blow

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before ever morning’s creep down the wideways of woodland halt the breathed haircurls aflame he came where she was wide in the wanting ...

great poets swingeing like mermaids

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you freaking out requires you freaking owl vampires sweepers (low sweepers, imagine) you and your sweepers you privileged fuck you dis-...

just not at all uvious

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1. I wouldn't do it anyway. blup. hotel this works black.blue.out there's a business here everyone says Batman the Bat Man sma...

cinquain

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won't fly? buy huge rockets strap them onto his back when you've lit the blue fly-paper stand back .

the smell of 2000 humans underground

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you got too many breaks in the past it should have been harder you should have been hated more it's made you soft and demanding this...

I am over your pain (love song heard across the rainy allotments)

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1. I'm not sure what the problem is (I quickly got over your pain and wanted to move on) and the moon well the moon nothing t...

xetal llab (sail away with me-honey)

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bergamot and feather-dew his face crumples in the rain lies down as though jet fighters along the wet forest rides nothing yet it's...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

similar from outside

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as if you care coal and water coming up I travelled out from outside in another time the water level has given me pain in their bones ...

running around the Goblin Wood

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in a large part not wait a different way was to write to ask for help so there was this problem and they do not ask for help in he...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

12 minutes to 9

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it's 12 minutes to 9 frequently drawing on research some victims fallen through thousands of people says the mudbath her face...

Todmorden

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a complete mess three o'clock bubbling up a mop push it back been up ever since again tonight mind you when the rain it really ca...

they're not gonna come

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his hankering for hatha yoga caused by warm latitudes this summit has been a dangerous platitude the big oil companies right at the las...

floods in which

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travelling at very low altitude further downpours are forecast later today the missing pilot residents of Mytholmroyd, Todmorden, Hebden ...

afternoon

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all day all afternoon rain like a disaster washing line freak .

the dreadful autoflock

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another woman's child there he goes like the weather spilling rice, consumed by pipes and pounding internal libraries oh the complic...

rat-children

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intimate as rats with my two small sons I feel failed as though we had approached a cliff edge then refused to jump into that new world ...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

allowed by the awesome wells

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given the relevant finances one might purchase a submarine even if the purpose is unconnected to wildflowers or the lifeclock it is likel...
Monday, June 18, 2012

national socialism

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don't give money to banks give them vouchers realisable if/when they make loans after that kill everyone and shut up .

270 million tons of inhuman

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the recent obesity of humans has added the equivalent weight of a billion new people to the planet there are no new geniuses amongst i...

The Triggerfish Critical Review.

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Triggerfish issue 9 is now live and available  HERE . The main featured poet is Laurie Byro, and the issue includes several of her poems as...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

cinquain

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a live bigfoot got caught running through the dark woods some local ladies say he got the goods .

cinquain

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car go little too fast car make bad skids on bend everyone dead in burning wreck the end .

cinquain

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off piste he skied with glee he'd never felt so free at least until he skied into that tree .
Sunday, June 10, 2012

penguins in the news

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depraved hooligan male penguins fucking corpses who'd'a thunk it? .

six squeaks at public understanding

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all our stories in disarray strange words, long gaps narratives without connection you don't know what they are trying to communicate...

busted clocksonnet in tradette—stopped, stop't

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then she should have walked quickly to every clock reached in and stopped them like breaking the necks of roosters [all of it skeletal in...
Saturday, June 09, 2012

sonar

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owls over dark fields —this sonar of ancient sirens .

gods

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cloud formations that look like gods we worship slow beers .

deer

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each morning watching the tiptoe deer go past slow summer ice .

uniforms

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there by the fire from  this afternoon's bike rides steaming uniforms .

love

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my eldest boy almost throws himself downstairs I prepare for love .

three sticks

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under the bridge go our three sticks —one in a whirlpool .
Friday, June 08, 2012

five pounds of fat dying in a big big barrel

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palatalised velars such as KAAAAAAAAAAAA die all around .......................................... 45-15-30 Je ne regrette oh whatever you...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

the wild joyous stink of everything

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this is a dead smell a lay-low smell a silvery zing of carrion is in this reek across the houses-half-human , visionary — an underworld ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

oh always lots of drivers

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world leaders are divided to support Eurozone countries in trouble but it is of course complete nonsense staggers on we will not have I...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

thermarest

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warmness isn't your favourite you think there is a little section between warmness and coolness that is your favourite yes that'...

cinquain

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the pair of them were wild when they got together dancing like hares in the purple heather .

cinquain

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it's gone the way of words  the fi-e-ry dipthong so rhyming it with eyrie now ain't wrong .

cinquain

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he's due a huge payout he bet his stash on black with all that dough I'd bet his wife comes back .

cinquain

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too much and not enough of alcohol and sleep these stairs have never seemed so long so steep .
Monday, May 21, 2012

sign language (for Charlie)

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laser beams ever where smoke and smoke and smoke bang and I blundered half-naked into you .

really men should be in charge

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what of Tarzan and the Nietzsche Nazi thing? you wouldn't believe it, so no Hollywood slots us as perverse, evil though easily thwa...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

the sound of a train wheel slicing the body of a cat

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a nice little housewife who'll give me a steady life and not keep going off the rails take your hands off me —found poem when you s...
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Monday, May 07, 2012

sink, wane

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parties just ain't my thing I don't like other folks all damn night long they try to tell me jokes .
Friday, May 04, 2012

cinquain

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pupcakes are my new thing made from unwanted pets I buy them soon after Christmas from vets .
Thursday, May 03, 2012

pantoumbaric cunnilinguosh BLAST

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the madbastad bear from the backyabyond wanders in yeah a little dull hits the bar like Davey sCrockett yeah upon that tree says set em ...
Monday, April 30, 2012

water

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all night the sound of water tapping —lost love .

still life

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anxiously checking  his breath in the little bunk —still life .

dead food

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this dead food at 6am —memories .

tide

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hands like a tide under the covers —her swells . .
Saturday, April 28, 2012

frogs

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all the young frogs croaking —surprise frost . .
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Beeku

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that wild buzz of controlled fear —a  bee in a glass .
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browsing-room only

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take this but not that? no, take this and then that too what am I or you a series only an assemblage in potential to be constructed chimer...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

limerick

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two ladies whose talk was quite risqué  once sat in a bar near to Biscay  one said 'though I'd quite like  to make love on a bike  p...
Monday, April 23, 2012

splash of the eager beaver

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T hatte mediaeval Bestiary says of the Beaver that when pursued for his  Orchids he will tear off them (off) with his  owne Teeth the...