The stalker of my dreams pursued me into the morning

for AM

In your dark mouth

I have seen the thousand mountain words.

Shoals of silver leaves

Swim beneath the city's domes,

Among the fountain crowns.

Breath murmurs

Within the bullet-soled slippers

As you dance

In black-whiskered air bubbles.

The shattering air glitters,

Dust clouds the sights,

And your raven's wings

Dissolve softly on the horizon.

The Lecanomant's Response

Sylvia's Hello (part 2)

gantry guslar phlegm keen?

scar ensure sward.

camp guslar enrol kotow.

check way labile layer!

otto sheaf enrol shelve!

repay dot detank relic!

kotow sheaf preen parky!

gantry outsit scar coiner.

billet squeal kotow throve!

media relic check scar!

check labile phlegm.

small doubt dove lake.

arena livid crow sircar?

bemuse detank melt next?

jura some otto sircar!

wizard precis denim.

gun scar.

more urban legends

'... but they didn't want to break their holiday, so they wrapped her up and left her in the car ...'

Madame Celeste

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

One Message

Revolutionary Uterus-Tilting

"The angle at which the womb is suspended in the pelvis frequently settles the whole question of sanity or insanity. Tilt the organ a little forward - introvert it, and immediately the patient forsakes her home, embraces some strong ultraism - Mormonism, Mesmerism, Fourierism, Socialism"

Jewelled spiders amongst the dead

Sylvia's Hello (part 1)

egret throve halm taster

squeal limey livid.

guslar keen crow rung!

preen parky torque action?

camp bagged ulna repay.

phlegm doubt throve

spawn kotow spun.

dormer choker unbare repay!

otto halm unbare bigamy?

pithy cyder reddle.

buff dormer melt phlegm!

phlegm stem.

enrol melt.

cyder spun bagged steer.

detank otto dree ensure!

rung leaden

relic pusher.

The ringing of poetry

Demons in the struggle against ...

Cry havoc and let slip the prawns of dawn

Meanwhile, on board the Enterprise ...

... Chief Engineer Geordi Lafargue is demanding the right to be lazy.

for Erik

The trail of terror led Juve to Stockholm

The public executioner initiates his deformed son into his trade

The Long View

He studies history

As social networking and

Shops, surrounded

By years.

Come on, Snowy

Emblematize.

That was no boating accident.

My initial

New beginning to things

Clouded the excitement.

Neverending cycle of goodness

Causes birth defects. However, studies in animals have shown surplus

Tablet of happiness is here.

Refurbishment and unauthorised entry

On the Tight Rope

The Warmth of My Heart

A Message

Down on the broad Underground platform, the party was in full swing. There was a hubbub of chatter, the clink of glasses. I stood close to the wall, holding a glass of wine, when a tall figure in white came and stood in front of me. He wore long white robes, which were bound round the lower half of his face. On his head he wore a tight-woven cap of white ribbons. A good head taller than me, he looked down with his piercing dark eyes. Raising the forefingers of his right hand up to the level of my eyes, he said solemnly 'Don't forget. It's in the Second Manifesto'.

As his hand dropped again to his side, he began to fade, becoming transparent. From the midriff he slowly disappeared, and I could see the platform and the party through his form until there was nothing left there at all.

Thoth reads the Second Spell on the Alp

Het Duivelspaard

So the Devil leapt on to the woman he had turned into a black horse, and rode her right to the doors of Hell. He shouted 'Open these doors! I am here with a woman!'

The Portrait

The Siren

Tauromachy (E12)

The sampling wasn't terribly scientific

Jana Philosophe carried a knife

in her potato-form bodice

A lightning bolt through her ear.

Fat speckled snakes ran through bamboo flowers

Down her arms

While lights danced in her blind cat's eyes

On the blank starred walls.

Legs Lloyd Overton ate his fists

as letters tumbled to the floor,

Shaky with caffeine poisoning.

His hat trembled

As his unmanaged reputation disintegrated.

A world of obstacles and conditions

Danse macabre

A Certain Degree of Obnubilation

to be continued

Like many others, I got to surrealism thanks to the work of Franklin Rosemont. I first read André Breton in Franklin's invaluable anthology, What is Surrealism?  His introduction to Breton burned with the vividness of surrealism as a living movement. I didn't always agree with Franklin, but that's a mark of a living movement. That so many of us are part of that movement, arguing and collaborating and disputing and creating, is a testimony to his contribution over the years. 

'... surrealism is not an aesthetic doctrine, nor a philosophical system, nor a mere literary or artistic school. It is an unrelenting revolt against a civilisation that reduces all human aspirations to market values, religious impostures, universal boredom and misery'.

Franklin Rosemont (1943-2009)

At the fun-fair, one ride in particular caught my attention

A birthday greeting from London

Do not be alarmed. I will instruct half a dozen servants to keep the venerated remains of your body and to protect them from the ravenous hunger of the dogs. No doubt the body has remained stuck to the wall like a ripe pear and has not fallen to the earth; but a dog can jump extremely high, if one is not careful ...

Evolutionary Anthropology Discovers the Missing Link Between Humanity and Extinction

The Fool

The red light continues about me, and I find myself surrounded by extraordinary flowers

A dream in which I sliced coffin lids like chilis

Dagon

Then suddenly I saw it ... 

The Hand of Conventi

All parts of the city find themselves in the grip of the Napoleon of Necromancy

The Octopus Scarab

Do not be afraid to extirbate

Simplicissimus marches to war

The moon welcomes me to morning

The Tomb of Ligeia (WC2)

The famous incident of the dematerialisation of Mrs D'Esperance's legs at Helsingfors in 1893

Autumn

All men of the health stuff

Greetings, I have learned an interesting thing

During many years our leading scientists developed ...

Stotelap

They feel more emotion

They feel more excitement

Expanding their circle

As my Friday

Treasure is within

His mart

I rise

Feeling real men

In popular men magazines

Here best that we can bring him pleasure

I wanna say this

Say no to all diseases!

Force men

Clear your life off any pains and illnesses

Give freedom to the desires

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button

There's nane that gaes by Carterhaugh

But they leave him a wad,

Either their rings, or green mantles,

Or else their maidenhead

And struck him with the jawbone of an ass

Analogic Psychology

Though the moon was full, and he had the benefit of its light, there was no light in his eyes

The Calf-Drill

Shining like a beacon in 2009