REFERRING IN SOME WAY to the body – your body, mine – the field of reference in no way a meadow to lie down in, body- to-body in the light of fresh discoveries. Your field is far-afield, neither enfolding nor overlapping my unkempt corner, my dream of you for now. This is one of the … Continue reading Poem: “Referring in some way”
“Notes like rain outpouring” is one of the 50 50-word poems collected in Half Cocks. Like a number of other other poems in that series it’s a tribute to a deceased person, in this case the guitarist Shawn Lane. Lane played fast – ear-bendingly fast. There’s a common saying that praising a guitarist for how … Continue reading Weekend Gloss: “Notes like rain outpouring”
This Monday’s poem is one of the fifty-word poems in my collection of fifty fifty-word poems, “Half Cocks“. NOTES LIKE RAIN outpouring from overwhelmed guttering during a deluge – “transcendental technique”, now taught in magazines. Numberless books on lepidoptery an evening’s study. The mind’s uncageable papillon, fluttering through the fingers. “Some kind of spirit” as … Continue reading Monday Poem: “Notes like rain outpouring”
There’s a difference between the kind of mental map you have of a new area of knowledge when you’re learning it quickly for your own use, and the kind of map that people make between them when trying to make new knowledge part of their shared practice. Neovores – people who consume novelty, who are … Continue reading Neovores and educators
I’m the author of Cold World: The Aesthetics of Dejection and the Politics of Militant Dysphoria: Also of Half Cocks, a book of 50 poems, each 50 words long: Here’s one about Gawain and the Green Knight:
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FOR CLOSURE SEEK the chapel of mischance, moss-cushioned grotto of seasonal restitution, where the sharpest blades hang out. Self-harm approximates that ritual whereby one wound requites another; but without mercy, which sometimes is worth sticking your neck out for, and by the devil’s luck emerging upright, nearly-scathed. |
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